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environment
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Johannesburg Is The 7th Most Polluted City In The World
17 Jan 2013 by Harry Haddon / 3 Comments
In the world’s biggest economies Johannesburg rates as the 7th most polluted air. The title of most polluted city goes not to Beijing as most would imagine, but the city ofLudhiana in India.
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Science Win: Scientists Turn Fresh Air Into Petrol
19 Oct 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 2 Comments
Ah, science. Air Fuel Synthesis, a small British company based in Stockton-on-Tees, has produced the first “petrol from air”. The scientists used revolutionary technology that “promises to solve the energy crisis as well as help to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”
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Massive Underground Water Supply Found In Namibia Could Last For Centuries
23 Jul 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 2 Comments
A newly discovered water source in Namibia could supply half of Africa’s driest sub-Saharan country with water for 400 years. The body of water, known as an aquifer, flows under the border between Angola and Namibia.
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Brazilian Prisoners Shave Time Off Their Sentence With Pedal Power
19 Jul 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
In Brazil, the Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison has taken a new approach in its attempts to produce green energy – they’re harnessing the pedal work of their inmates.
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Scientists Say Rise In Sea Level Can’t Be Stopped
02 Jul 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
More worrying news from the climate change front. Scientists have said that even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, sea levels will continue to rise over the next couple of hundred years.
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America’s Massive Fires Are A Preview Of A Changed Climate
29 Jun 2012 by Harry Haddon / 2 Comments
Scientists say that the catastrophic wildfires in the US West offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring. Apocalyptic like fires have been raging across Colorado, Montana and Utah for weeks, and scientists say are a damaging impact of global warming.
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New Hilarious “Yes Men” Viral Campaign Owns Shell [FULL GALLERY & VIDEO]
13 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Greenpeace recently teamed up with activist pranksters, The Yes Men. Their goal? To rip Shell a new one over their planned Arctic oil drilling. Step inside, and watch a great (and hilarious) example of how social media and activism have become inseparable.
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We ‘Must Believe In Science’ If We Want To Combat Global Warming
21 Feb 2012 by Janey Bee / No Comments
The human race is going to have to start believing in science – and quickly – if we want a hope in hell of surviving the environmental crisis we’re facing. This was the sentiment at a recent gathering of the world’s pre-eminent scientific minds in Vancouver. At the meeting, thousands of scientists discussed the problem that their industry is “under seige”, and that the world needs help to believe in science again.
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Japan’s Eco-Friendly Christmas Lights [PICS]
18 Nov 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
It’s the Year of Setsuden in Japan, which Google tells me means “saving electricity’”; this means that the lavish Christmas illuminations that Tokyo usually sets up are a little hard to justify. Minna no Illumi has found a pretty neat solution to the problem, though, with an entirely biodiesel-powered display.
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BBC Removed Climate Change Episode From Natural History Series To Sell Better
16 Nov 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
“Frozen Planet” is the latest big-budget series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit; its seventh and last episode deals with global warming. Except apparently climate change isn’t that big of a deal, because the BBC has dropped that episode from its international line-up to help sell the series outside of Britain.
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Waste Not, Want Not: New House Designs In Nigeria
11 Nov 2011 by Matt McDonald / 1 Comment
Here’s a novel idea that might help put a dent in the massive backlog of new homes our government has promised to the millions without adequate shelter, plus it’s great for the environment!
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Virgin Atlantic Wants to Circle the World on Second-Hand Carbon
13 Oct 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
Virgin Atlantic announced that their planes will soon be able to fly from London to Hong Kong on fuel that produces half the carbon of regular jet fuel – which is sort of huge news, given that flying is one of our most carbon-intensive activities, enough to offset any good otherwise done by unplugging unused appliances or whatever.
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The Taj Mahal Will Cave In Between Two And Five Years
06 Oct 2011 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
India’s most famous tourist attraction, the 358-year-old Taj Mahal, will collapse within five years unless something drastic is done. The wooden foundation is becoming brittle and disintegrating due to a lack of water. This is because the river crucial to its survival is being blighted by pollution, industry and deforestation.
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Growing Pot Leaves A Huge Carbon Footprint
28 Sep 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
A study from Lawrence Berkely National Library has claimed that when you smoke a blunt, you contribute indirectly to a little under a kilogram of carbon dioxide emissions. The same study suggests that US pot growers are responsible for 1% of national electricity consumption. So I guess it’s not that green after all. (Sorry.)
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Croatian Entrepreneur Unveils 300kmph Electric Supercar
14 Sep 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
23-year old Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac unveiled the Concept_One electric supercar at the Frankfurt Motor Show yesterday – a 1,099 horsepower machine that can go a little under 600 km per charge, and can get over 300 km/h on a stretch. Is that enough car numbers? I’m not great at car numbers. Take a look at the thing though, it’s sexy.
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Fresh Oil Leaks From Damaged BP Well Spotted In Gulf Of Mexico
14 Sep 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
New oil leakage has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, near the BP well that burst 15 months ago; the oil currently covers an area about seven kilometres long and 50 metres wide. It’s not clear if the oil is coming from the reservoir itself, or if’s been trapped in last year’s damaged rigging.
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We’re Six Months From Vat-Grown Meat, Apparently
01 Sep 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
Researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden, met this week to launch a new “meat without slaughter” initiative – with plans on being able to release bio-sausages in the next six months. Bio-sausages made from exotic animal cells, too, because vat-grown tiger meat isn’t any less ethical than vat-grown bacon.
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Florida Funeral Home Offers ‘Liquefaction’ Services
31 Aug 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
A Florida funeral home has unveiled an ‘alakaline hydrolysis’ unit, which dissolves dead bodies in heated alkaline water. Which is, apparently, something you might want to do; the process is being billed as a far greener alternative than cremation, producing far less greenhouse gas and requiring far less energy.
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Chinese Tycoon Offers To Buy 0.3% Of Iceland
30 Aug 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
Huang Nubo, the sixteenth richest person in China, has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Icelandic wilderness. He calls himself a “poet and adventurer,” so it would make sense that he’d want to buy the property to develop a golf course and tourist destination.
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Russia Is Building An Underwater Tunnel To Alaska
29 Aug 2011 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
Recession reschmesssion. Russia has unveiled an ambitious (read: $65 billion) plan to build the world’s longest tunnel under the Bering Strait – as part of a railway corridor linking North America to Europe, via Siberia. Because ships and planes just weren’t cutting it. Also, this sucker’s going to be entirely fueled by green energy, apparently.
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1 000 Surfboard Graveyard installed in Australia
26 Aug 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
Chris Anderson, graphic design student, is installing 1 000 broken surfboards in the sands of a Sydney beach to inform people of the unsustainable practices in surfboard manufacturing. I’m not sure how breaking a thousand surfboards helps this problem, but the installation looks pretty cool.
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Greenpeace Ad: The Death Star Is A Volkswagen [VIDEO]
29 Jun 2011 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
You guys remember that VW commercial that ran during the Superbowl with a tiny Darth Vader? Well, Greenpeace does. And they’ve made a spoof follow-up in an effort to call attention to the automaker’s environmental record. Liberal media sentiments aside, it’s cute – click through for a tiny Vader and a Message About The Environment.
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‘Nitrogen Funerals:’ The Eco-Friendly Way To Deal With Death
09 Mar 2011 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Wow. Okay. So a Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, using sound waves to shatter the ice before drawing all the moisture out of the remains with a vacuum. Because the Swedish word for ‘eco-friendly’ also means ‘traumatic’ and ‘awesome.’
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End Of The Line
19 Oct 2010 by silverstreak / No Comments
Remember An Inconvenient Truth? You watched it, right? This may shock you, but the vast majority of the planet we live on is constituted of aquatic environments, and inhabited by aquatic species. A new film premiering in South Africa later this month, The End Of The Line, is An Inconvenient Truth for the ocean. [VIDEO]
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