Mastodon Genome Surrenders its Secrets
Newly extracted DNA from the tooth of a Mastodon has led to some fascinating insights into evolutionary history. Evolutionary biologist at the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany pieced together the first mastodon mitochondrial genome. The research shows that woolly mammoths are more closely [...]
Continue reading...Build Houses on Flood Planes, Says UK Government.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Severe flooding has affected four counties, four hundred thousand are without water, thousands have had to abandon their homes, and the cost will no doubt run into hundreds of millions of pounds. Yet the housing minister, Yvette Cooper, doesn’t see a problem with building thousands of [...]
Continue reading...Formula One: It’s Go Go Going Green.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Save big game hunting, Formula One motor racing is about the least environmentally friendly sport out there. The racing cars burn a staggering litre of fuel per kilometre and each one emits 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. It’s an entire sport built around [...]
Continue reading...5 Most Influential Environmental Leaders
Monday, July 23, 2007
Here’s Environmental Graffiti’s list of the five most influential environmental movers and shakers. 5. James Hansen runs NASAs Institute for Space Science and is Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia. Since the 1980s he has consistently been testifying to Congress about the dangers of [...]
Continue reading...Neo-Nazis Murder Environmentalist
Monday, July 23, 2007
An environmentalist was murdered yesterday, when a group of environmental activists were attacked by neo-Nazis in Siberia. The activists were protesting outside the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Plant near Lake Baikal when the attack occurred. The twenty one environmental activists were set upon by fifteen mask wearers shouting [...]
Continue reading...Macacque Monkey Infanticide Caused by Ecotourism
Monday, July 23, 2007
Ecotourism in Tibet is disastrously counterproductive for the Macacque Monkey, a new study has revealed. The start of tourism in Mount Huangshan Scenic Area in Anhui Province in 1991 has coincided with a huge increase in aggression and infanticide in the monkeys. From almost total seclusion before [...]
Continue reading...Airlines Pretend to Offset Emissions. MP’s Not Happy Bunnies.
Monday, July 23, 2007
British Airways has been castigated over its climate change policy in a parliamentary report released today. The Environmental Audit Committee, chaired by Tim Yeo, has been investigating the extent to which airlines behave in an environmentally responsible way. British Airways’ behaviour was described as ‘risible’ by the [...]
Continue reading...Floods hit Britain. Yes, again.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Just weeks after some of the worst floods in living memory displaced thousands and caused over a £1 billion in damage, it’s happening again. Flash floods are occurring up and down England and Wales, with meteorologists predicting up to 10cm of rain over the next twenty [...]
Continue reading...Run! Fire Next to Nuclear Reactor!
Friday, July 20, 2007
On Wednesday we reported that the world’s largest nuclear plant sat on top of an active geological fault line, the one that caused Monday’s earthquake. Well another day, another nuclear horror story, this time about a nuclear fuel facility in brush fire ravaged Idaho. The facility, a [...]
Continue reading...Let’s All Grow Trees On Mars
Friday, July 20, 2007
NASA scientists are examining a high altitude forest on a Mexican volcano in an attempt to understand the practicalities of colonising Mars. They see forestation as a crucial step towards making Mars habitable. They are examining Pico de Orizaba’s pine forest in order to better understand the [...]
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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