Fracking Does Contaminate Groundwater With Methane, But Jury Still Out On Process Overall

13 May, 2011 12:15 am A study by Duke University has shown unsafe levels of methane gas in water taken from wells closer than 1000 m to gas-shale hydraulic fracturing ("fracking")...

The Road to Fukushima: The Nuclear Industry's Wrong Turn

11 Apr, 2011 10:32 am Nuclear researchers knew long ago that reactor designs now in wide use had already been bested in safety by another design. Why did the industry turn its...

UK: using woodlands to cut emissions

25 Jan, 2010 04:21 pm An independent assessment commissioned by the UK Forestry Commission has proposed one way forward: a million new hectares devoted to woodland, generating...

Sceptic Ian Plimer on global warming: "my theories are more evocative and sensual"

8 Dec, 2009 10:57 am Professor Ian Plimer is one of the most influential global warming sceptics. A university academic in Australia, his trenchant views on climate change...

Is Canada Becoming a Petrostate?

26 Jul, 2009 06:50 am Canada's increasing reliance on energy exports, especially oil from the Alberta tar sands, risk unsettling its politics and economy and turning the country...

UK Climate Champions Go Dutch

7 Mar, 2008 09:34 am A group of British teenagers, who won a nationwide competition in the UK to promote climate change issues- tour Holland to see the latest environmental...

Bacterial Genomes and Evolution

29 Nov, 2007 10:59 am The seminar that I give most often when I am invited to speak at other universities begins with a brief introduction to genomes, sets up some comparisons...

?The Really Big Problem for UK Science at the Moment Is Ensuring that We Will Have Enough Scientists in the Future?

11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm As new Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled his long-term vision to ?make Britain one of the best places in the world for science, research and innovation...

Choose Our Ends, And We'll Find The Means

28 Jun, 2007 04:27 pm We all have our own personal fantasy worlds. Mine is to live in a world of balanced political debate where liberal and conservative politicians bring forward...