Chaos and the Hockey Stick

Personal attacks on the respected climatologist Michael Mann demonstrate…

Who Owns the Rain?

The advent of geoengineering means extraction rights will need to cover theoretical…

Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?

The President of the Earth Policy Institute says that…

Is Synthetic Biology a Cause For Concern?

Answering protesters at the recent SB6.0 conference 

At last week’s Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology (SB6.0), delegates were met by a small band of protestors voicing opposition to…

Megawater: Replumbing the Modern World

For centuries humanity has built dams to tame waterways for our…

Equality=sustainability?

Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson believes greater equality could hold a key…

This Was England

Dry fields, flooded cities and denuded forests: what Britain’s new prince will inherit

Make Love, Not Carbon

The ethical, individual approach to mitigating anthropogenic climate change is…

Meat In the Laboratory

Back to the Future — With a Dollop of History

“The epicure of the future [will] dine upon artificial meat, artificial flour, and artificial vegetables,” and enjoy the delights of “artificial” wines, liquors, and tobacco. (*1)

The Price of Water

in a place like Bangalore…

Cities have died after they’ve dried up their water. How long will Bangalore live? It was once supplied by hundreds of lakes, and at the time its population was a fraction of today’s, and now there are many more people and…