Politics

Gorillas or oil: the Virunga question

No, they ain’t all dead yet. These guys are just hanging out together as mountain gorillas do when they’re just plumb-full of food and fed up with tourists watching them!...

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Human epoch or just invasive hominid species?

Before the Mayflower, there were even smaller ships---. Maybe we should call our epoch the New Carboniferous, or get rid of the Holocene. When did the Anthropocene start? Well, nobody...

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Report on a better Aral Sea

The key to the water problems in the south of the Aral Sea is this “river.” The ancient Amu Darya was full-flowing and provided vast cotton fields recently with their...

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Mekong is almost a stagnant pond!

Could this be the final sunset on the mighty Mekong? In Luang Prabang, they are used to negotiating the wide river for fishing, transport and the rest, but how many...

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Fossil divestments trend is killing coal.

The history of fossil fuel stretches back further than we can remember, but the delightful ladies of 1910 are rarely remembered as coal miners in Europe, where advanced coal mining...

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Wind reps. are full of hot air! (fossilised)

The greening of our energy suppliers varies from using some renewables to their latest trick of pretending to represent the bodies responsible for them. Beware those lobbyists worldwide and make...

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J’aime la belle Paris, mais sacre bleu!

Notres dames in this case are the mayor of Paris and the Ecology Minister. No real person is displayed here, but the argument seems to have given the ladies concerned...

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