Mexico's oil looks set to run out within a decade, writes Jeremy Leggett, and it can hardly rely on Trump's America to make up the difference. But Mexico enjoys abundant sunshine, and the cost of solar power generation is falling fast. Let Trump tie America's economy to debt-financed fossil fuels. Mexico's future prosperity will come from harnessing its inexhaustible solar riches.
… Mexico's expiring oil and Trump's wall: the future is solar Jeremy Leggett | … An example: Mexico could build its own wall, made of solar panels. Such a wall, 6 metres high along the full length of …
Yellowstone Park is home to America's last pure-bred wild bison, writes George Wuerthner. Yet the Park's management is planning to kill around a thousand of these precious animals this winter. Ostensibly it's to protect cattle on public lands near the park from brucellosis. But bison have never been known to transmit the disease to them. The real reason is to keep all the pasture for livestock.
… Americans and Montana hunters. The 'bison wall' Unfortunately for the bison, the urge to … of the Montana livestock industry. A 'bison wall' (analogous to the Berlin Wall) effectively confines them to Yellowstone …
A new exhibition draws inspiration from the plight of the Amazon and uses artwork to suggest and inspire creative solutions to an impending environmental catastrophe
… Their radiant close-ups of flowers cover one wall and feature on posters that visitors can … We want the lovely poster of flowers on our wall at home, but are we also prepared to pay … flank this mini Noah’s Ark. On an adjacent wall are drawings in ink and watercolour for …
They used to sleep beneath London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Now a pioneering collaboration between the Southbank Centre and a housing association is giving a group of ex-homeless a chance to create a rooftop garden
… garden Paul Pulford bounds towards a concrete wall. 'They're going to be amazing and … row of sunflowers soon to burst open along a wall on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in … and The Eden Project, based in Cornwall. The garden itself was designed by Eden's …
A new financial crisis is threatening to dwarf the 'subprime' mortgage debacle, writes Paul Mobbs. Cheap money from central banks has fuelled some $1.3 trillion of risky investments in high-cost 'unconventional' oil and gas. Now, with oil sinking below $60, all that paper is turning to junk - and that's putting the entire economic system at risk.
… being taken seriously by the money-lenders of Wall Street. John Maynard Keynes was one of … fossil fuels During the early 2000s a lot of Wall Street's 'funny money', based around …
According to the UN Environment Programme, between 150 and 200 species are driven extinct – are killed – every day. What sense can we possibly make of that?
… Offill’s Weather ; John Lanchester’s The Wall ; Richard Powers’ The Overstory ; Ian … that lurks, unknown, on the far side of the wall. It is dawn. She lingers nervously. A door in the wall swings open. Beyond, she glimpses …
Filling your garden with wildflowers helps honeybees and butterflies, and creates a relaxed mood. And, from the Easton Walled Garden to Sissinghurst, there's plenty of inspiration
… creates a relaxed mood. And, from the Easton Walled Garden to Sissinghurst, there's plenty … or shade: The wild sunny garden: At Easton Walled Garden in Lincolnshire, roses grow amid …
Frans de Waal revealed to humans the intelligence and feelings of our fellow primates, and animals in general.
… inequality that dominated the world. But de Wall did not walk down that road. He spent the … from a short video of one of the chimps De Wall did research with in the 1970s. The … of Violence and Inequality.' Evolution De Wall took an idea from the work of Takayoshi …
With a new coalition government the opportunities for fresh thinking about managing the UK countryside are vast, reports Dan Box. And the Stiperstones nature reserve is providing plenty of inspiration...
… granite tors that look like broken bones. Tom Wall rests one hand on one of those, Nipstone … in allowing nature to thrive,’ he said. Tom Wall, of course, had been thinking about the …
Mission accomplished in Iraq? It is now, writes Mike Whitney. A million deaths on, a once peaceful, independent country has been transformed into a petro-economy of never ending civil chaos and terror, where multinational oil corporations rule supreme.
… rolling in dough. Here's the story from the Wall Street Journal : "Iraq's oil production … in America. People talk about the power of Wall Street and Israel, but oil is still king. …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… bleached white sand against the station walls. Sitting opposite, an Uyghur girl … now live in the shells of houses with walls torn open by the road. Where the narrow …
Increased production from US fracking operations is a major reason for the drop in oil prices, writes Kieran Cooke. But there are warnings that the industry now faces an existential crisis from which it may never recover, as the financial sector faces the prospect of worthless shares and $100s of billions of defaulted debt.
… raised mainly through bonds issued on Wall Street and in the City of London. In … raised mainly through bonds issued on Wall Street and in the City of London. …
UK politicians and officials are studiously ignoring the growing evidence that fracking is an economic and environmental disaster, writes Paul Mobbs. As the circle of 'acceptable' view spins ever smaller, industry PR is dominating a phoney debate that's increasingly remote from reality, public opinion and core democratic principles.
… boom' in the USA was fuelled by speculative Wall Street finance. When that bubble burst in …
ExxonMobil has long known that climate change is real and dangerous, write Louise Rouse & Naomi Ages, while denying it in public and supporting climate change deniers. Now they accuse their critics of 'chilling' climate science and the search for solutions. The truth is the precise opposite.
… that has put Exxon's back firmly to the wall. Following fast on the news that the US …
However much you think nature is worth, it's a lot more, writes Neil Nightingale. According to the BBC's 'Earth Index', published today in the world's financial press, water alone is worth as much as the entire global economy, and a single beaver's landscape and wetland management clocks in at $120,000 a year.
… Index ' in the financial pages of the Times; Wall Street Journal; Singapore Business Times …
A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought.
… shy about discussing the impacts of what the Wall Street Journal is calling 'the Grand …
It's time to imagine a more resilient future for the Lake District and all its communities, a future in which wild nature and thriving biodiversity is central.
… with; herdwick sheep on the fells, drystone walls, and tree-less vistas. Whilst there is …
To feed the world we must abandon not just GMOs but all diversity-destroying selective crop breeding, organic farmer John Letts told Oliver Tickell. Only by using biodiverse local seed mixtures that evolve in the field can food production adapt to climate change without ever-increasing chemical inputs, and meet human needs for wholesome nourishment.
… an Oxfordshire farmer, lovingly restored. The walled garden with a thousand ancient …
The high oil prices that turned North Dakota into a boom state have turned, writes Joshua Frank. Now high-cost oil and gas are in the doldrums everywhere, production is falling - and even if prices do pick up one day, risk aversion and the relentless advance of renewables will leave lakes of oil and caverns of gas underground where they belong. Folks, the oil party really is over!
… flowing in. It was all by design of course - Wall Street's design, writes Rogers: "Wall Street promoted the shale gas drilling …