Australian professor Peter Sale from the United Nations Institute for Water, Environment and Health published a book, “Our Dying Planet,” in which he predicted a very unsightly future for us and our descendants.
Although burning natural gas produces far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study has found that using more natural gas will not help significantly slow climate change.
On March 11, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of the Japanese city of Sendai and the subsequent tsunami knocked out the neighboring Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. Three of the plant's six reactors melted down, causing several explosions and fires. Almost half a year has passed since then. What has been done and what remains to be done?
King crabs, a crustacean of the same species as red king crabs, have been found on the edge of Antarctica. Scientists believe the animals were brought to Antarctic waters by warming temperatures in the region.
Last year, the summer volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low, surpassing the previous record set in 2007. Estimating the volume of ice is understandably difficult.
Paul Stockton, who oversees U.S. security at the Pentagon, is making plans for apocalyptic disasters that could change the lives of millions of Americans forever.
Biologists are creating a bank of stem cells from endangered animal species. The "contributions" will be useful for improving the health of endangered populations, increasing genetic diversity and fertilization, if there are no males left in the population.
Due to wastewater discharged into rivers, a large proportion of fish populations have both male and female sexual characteristics, Elena Dusi reports in an article published in the newspaper La Repubblica.
A system for converting wind kinetic energy into electricity using a kite is being tested in the US. The Model 8 system is the result of two years of work by specialists at Windlift.
Chris Cherry of the University of Tennessee (USA) found that the industry is heavily dependent on lead-acid batteries, which in China and India alone result in the emission of more than 2.4 million tons of lead per year (12 kg per 1 kW in China and 8.5 kg in India).
