The origins of dinosaurs lie in a massive meteorite strike which gave them a chance of survival, according to a new study. It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang - wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million years ago. But researchers ...
According to the International Energy Agency’s renewables 2017 report, three countries are going to account for two-thirds of global renewable energy expansion by 2022. Those countries are China, India, and the United States. While credit must be given to the former two for a boom in solar-panel deployments over the ...
A new report released today has exposed one of the largest cases in recent years of ongoing, illegal clearance of tropical rainforests in Borneo, with several international brands implicated. Currently, 10,000 hectares of peat forest have been cleared illegally for future palm oil plantations, despite Indonesian regulations and company commitments ...
The largely intact bag of cheese and onion flavoured crisps is believed to date back to the 1980s - highlighting further the environmental impact of plastic in our oceans.
By Ben Martin, Green Economy Coalition Today is World Health Day, which every year is a great excuse for journalists and editors to trot out finger-wagging articles about how unhealthy we’re all getting. We’re drinking too much, not exercising enough, our food is basically just sugar and chemicals, and our lungs ...
Monkeys unwind at the end of a stressful day with spa therapy - just like humans, say scientists. Snow monkeys use hot springs to reduce stress - as well as keep them warm, according to new research. The macaques are a popular tourist attraction in Nagano in northern Japan as ...
Tonight in perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitism row, he has come under criticism from the usual suspects for celebrating Passover with Jews in his constituency. But these are the wrong sort of Jews apparently. - Left wing Jews. According to right wing political blog ...
Antarctica is shrinking because the sea floor is being eroded - by warm water. Global warming is causing vast swathes of the land underneath the frozen continent to be carried away - leading to structural instability in the great ice sheet. Now entire cliffs of ice that have stood for ...
In the light of recent tensions, and the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin last night, Alexandre Garese, The French investor, assesses the prospects for doing business in Russia Assessing the current relations between Moscow and Paris, French investor Alexandre Garese told journalists that, despite the external political pressure and ...