Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
Promising the World, or Costing the Earth? The Ecologist | 1st May 2003 News Nanotechnology Science Technology Military Nanotechnology Science And Technology investigates.jpg Nanotechnology has the …
Record global temperatures in 2015 and 2016 are causing a humanitarian crisis that is more than double that of conflict as a cause of displacement and migration, the WMO stated today. Heatwaves, flood, drought and fires are all contributing to the declining food and water security affecting over 60 million people worldwide.
WMO: 2015 / 2016 temperature records creating surge of climate refugees The Ecologist | 14th November 2016 News Climate Change Science Un Migration COP22 fort-mcmurray-fire-cut.jpg Record global …
The over-hunting of wildlife in the Amazon has an unexpected knock-on effect: the reduced seed dispersal reduces the forest's capacity to store carbon in its biomass, increasing emissions from apparently 'intact' rainforest areas.
Hunting in the Amazon threatens rainforest carbon The Ecologist | 27th January 2016 News Climate Change Carbon Forests Amazon Science Hunting Conservation Ecology spider-monkey-cut.jpg The …