Green deal is inappropriate for Britain’s 5m historic homes, so what’s the best way to stop them leaking energy? John Vidal gets expert advice for his Grade II listed home.
Local activists are paying with their life to protect their forests in Peru
Developed world’s greed for hardwood, palm oil, natural gas and beef is killing people on environmental frontiers Continue reading…
Nevada earthquake swarm continues
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports a 4.6-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Nevada Tuesday night. They first reported it as a 4.9-magnitude and later downgraded it. This earthquake is the largest one recently in an earthquake swarm that has been occurring in the sparsely populated northwest corner of Nevada, near the borders of Oregon and California, since July 2014.
Air quality under new scrutiny
As part of the preparations for the Sentinel-5 Precursor air-quality monitoring mission, scientists teamed up in Romania recently to test different airborne systems that will be used to ensure this new satellite delivers accurate measurements of pollutants in the air we breathe.
US Has Test That Can Detect Ebola Virus In Seconds (But It’s Stuck In A Lab)
Researchers at a government lab have developed a minimally invasive test for Ebola that could cut the time it takes to diagnose cases of the lethal virus from days and hours to minutes or even seconds, International Business Times has learned.
Satellite eye on Earth: September 2014 in pictures
Smoking volcanoes of Iceland, dust storms of Sahara and parched basin of the Aral Sea are among the images captured by ESA and Nasa satellites last month.
Retro Report: The Head-Scratching Case of the Vanishing Bees
Originally Published by NYT – Several years ago, beekeepers were vexed: Honeybees, those versatile wovanishing beesrkhorses of pollination, were vanishing by the millions.
World population to hit 11bn in 2100 with 70% chance of continuous rise
Originally Published by The Guardian – New study overturns 20 years of consensus on peak projection of 9bn and gradual decline Continue reading.
Leaky wells, not fracking, polluted US drinking water
Originally Published by New Scientist – The act of fracking is probably not contaminating US drinking water – the real problem is leaks from the wells that bring natural gas to the surface
New catalog of visible Milky Way charts 219 million stars
Originally Published by Earth Sky – These astronomers spent 10 years charting all the stars brighter than 20th magnitude – that’s about 1 million times fainter than can be seen with the human eye.