Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… Still Waters Run Deep Paul Kingsnorth | 1st November … Community Climate Change Energy STILLWATERS_NOV06_MAIN.jpg Npower, owner of the … and the willows, and frays the surface of the water. Canada geese and swans look unconcerned …
A tale of Indians and airboats, giant alligators and one of the world’s greatest ecosystems hanging in the balance.
… of grass James Frankham | 1st March 2006 News Water Ecosystem American Indians Native … golden sawgrass and sinuous channels of dark water. ‘I was born right over there,’ he … airboat, stock-in-trade for navigating the waterways of the grassy interior. It resembles …
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...
… under irrigation due to the lack of natural water sources; rainfall in southern Spain is … and pesticides are drip-fed to the plants via water pipes. The average lettuce crop takes … to the greenhouse. They are drip-fed water, fertiliser and pesticides in the same …
Biodegradeable Waste (BDW), ‘plants and animals’, comprises an amazing 59 per cent of your household waste. Do you simply throw yours in the bin? If so you...
… damage to the environment, plants, soil life, water life and many other organisms… AND IF … diverts your BDW ‘problem’ from landfill to a water treatment works. What’s more, it will … operate it, and uses one invaluable resource; water, to flush another invaluable resource, …
While the world worries about a terrorist attack on a nuclear power station, industry chiefs have an even greater threat - staff boredom
… the heat away, and the hot gas then heats water to make steam that drives turbines, … or by including boric acid in the coolant water. Boron acts to slow down the fission … – and leaks increase; • some contaminated water is intentionally removed from the …
Worm composting is fun and easy. George Pilkington offers some advice and encouragement for those wishing to take it up.
… climate change * Reduced leachates = cleaner water sources and surrounding countryside * … * Educate your children live! * Less water and less time spent watering – more time for relaxing in your …
The world is warming up. We face ecological, social and economic meltdown, famine, drought, disease and turf wars. For real?
… physical uniformity of our planet, with land, water and ice distributed non-symmetrically … bring about large-scale movements of air and water, which in turn dictate local patterns of … to absorb and re-emit heat. These include water vapour (H2O), carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ), …
Think nuclear power and you probably think of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… pays for it to be built close to a plentiful water supply, as it requires 30 million … is away from the coast but near a plentiful water supply and, politically at least, remote … probably via underground networks; and a water source tapped into or created, which …
Remote, unregulated and...running out. Why the business of fuelling nuclear power can't give us energy sovereignty
… the dust of which finds its way into water, plants, animals, fish and humans for … metres deep. When they are, polluted surface water has to be pumped away from the mine to … it operational, further contaminating local water supplies. Worse is to come at the mill, …
How mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the earth.
… are seeing the most basic of our needs – air, water, housing, and energy – disappear before … pressures, how to keep access to food, water, and energy as other parts of the world … miles. The vast amount of fresh water discharged into the Northern ocean now …
If you don't want an incinerator near you, you are either going to have to move to a rich neighbourhood or bin your bin...
… The plant will use 50 million litres of mains water annually and an estimated 250 bin … sell by date, fast food pizza boxes, plastic water bottles, tetra-paks... all products of a …
Stop worrying about major accidents such as Chernobyl, nuclear reactors legally emit radioactive particles that are causing clusters to erupt around the country.
… national average. In Maldon along the Blackwater estuary in Essex, discharges from the … out where tidal energy is the least. When the water comes to a standstill, the particles … fall out and drop down to the bottom and the water gradually recedes.’ This process is …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
… with a catapult, flooding the hall (during a water-fight with his cousin), defacing school … just letting the children play with sand and water, we have ‘knowledge and understanding of …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
… as witnessed after Hurricane Katrina, and water shortages will become more severe, … scorched and famines and disease caused by water and food shortages will increase in … the Netherlands. We see agriculture collapse, water shortages and floods. Two hundred …
The secretive side of nuclear power that uses chemicals 10,000 times more potent greenhouse gases than CO2...and is fuelling a nuclear arms race
… In Ohio, the soil and underground water around the Piketon plant was found to be … all such plants rely heavily on air and water filters to stop such deadly emissions …
Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports
… clean (‘It’s amazing what effect a bucket of water and some detergent can have on wine … Vegan suitable You can drink this with tonic water or make it part of the classic martini. …
For the Canadian Aanishnaabek tribe, who live on a reserve surrounded by chemical plants, there seems no escape. Do they leave, and abandon their past, or stay, and perhaps lose their future? Zoe Cormier investigates
… and it didn’t matter what flowed into the waters – they weren’t hurting regular people, … are plagued by malnutrition, unsanitary water, derelict housing, and the usual fare of … would come by, they would just get out of the water and wait for it to pass before diving …
Described as a ‘mosquito inside a tent’,
Rainforest Action Network are forcing corporate
America to change its destructive practices.
Nicola Graydon meets this inspiring group of activists
Food is supposed to be good for you, which is why many people believe that functional foods such as cholesterol-lowering spreads are a ‘good thing’. But are they? Pat Thomas reports
… humans were meant to eat. INGREDIENTS: Water, vegetable oils (including sunflower … This spread is a mixture of oil and water. Emulsifiers hold the mix together. …
Alan Simpson, MP for Nottingham South, is on a mission. ‘We can’t survive this century unless we change fundamentally the built environment and move from thinking of buildings as consumers of energy, to thinking of them as generators of electricity.' Ben Willis meets the rarest of breeds, an MP who’s walking the talk.
… self-sufficient, recycling all the grey water from showers and washing, and generating …
The native Inuit people of the Arctic regions need no convincing of the effects of global warming. As Clare Kendall discovers, they are already suffering its impact
… had enough snow this winter and there is open water in the bay!’ Mario Aubin, of the Nunavik …