Once you get over the fact that not even tinted windows, a subwoofer, and Snoop Dogg riding shotgun would make the Maranello IV electric car ‘cool’, you can begin to think about driving and car ownership in a whole new way.
… cars ever be sexy?’ I ask Tucker. ‘Well, mass produced electric cars…no, not really, they’re …
Like carbon trading, REDD and food speculation before it, the buying and selling of water is just the latest example of market principles being applied to natural resources. But just how ethical is it? Debika Ray reports
… is sanitised; internationally, through goods produced using this water. Under this system, …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
… plants, but is a ‘leaky’ technology that produces some viable pollen. Thus the male …
After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… is that there were sufficient numbers to produce stiff resistance to almost 1,000 riot … would make Anadolu the fourth largest energy producer in Turkey, a market that was only …
Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thomas sorts through the big tech ideas you’ll be reading about this year
… Safety in Dakar, Senegal. They agreed producers should label nanomaterials in …
The Environment Agency (EA) is within weeks of letting Monsanto escape its liability for dumping thousands of tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals – including all the ingredients of the DDT defoliant Agent Orange – in two quarries in Wales.
… All should have copies of the agreement – produced the next day by the lawyers …
Our love affair with convenience culture extends to a reliance on convenience ‘cures’ for minor complaints. In the first article of a new series, the Ecologist’s Health Editor Pat Thomas says that self-medication isn’t the same as self-help
… is to ignore context and uncritically reproduce everything that any so-called health … have shown that larger amounts do not always produce better or faster results than small …
How one Colombian community put wind turbines where they shouldn't have turned, water pumps where they shouldn't have worked, and planted a forest in soils thought long dead
… common in commercial forestry), the fungus reproduced naturally. At last the community had …
Undeterred by a series of terrifying accidents, the Bush administration is pushing ahead with its potentially apocalyptic biological weapons programme.
… mention that those incidents involved anthrax produced right in the good 'ole USA - or that …
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.
… farm at Liscombe on Exmoor was designed to produce beef on a pure grass and silage feed … when several US trials attempted to reproduce BSE in cattle by feeding them with …