Elon Musk stood in front of a crow in Berlin to preach about the effects of climate change. The gist of it? The Syrian refugee movement is just the beginning of what is going to be a world wide phenomenon that’s going screw us all over.
Volkswagen’s lil mess has created a global ripple effect that has now hit South Africa, but until there is a more solid understanding of what those effects will be, experts can only predict for now.
Sometimes, there are theories that are based upon coincidences and this is one – so take it as you will, but please note: Rupert is a climate change denier.
It may not have felt like it down here in SA but the world actually had a rather warm June. That’s not all, climate change denialists, there’s another touch of science to crush your dreams.
It’s about time us humans start looking after our planet a bit better. I know some of us are trying, and it doesn’t come cheap, but at this rate we’re going to have nothing left.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this fish is tiny and from the tropics and that you could keep it in your tropical tank at home in the lounge. Think again…
I’m just going to throw it out there and ask you just how badly you want to touch the fluff on the rhino’s ears… Yes, really.
If the world runs out of chocolate we can also eliminate the idea of women ruling the world, because it would literally be unstoppable war over the last few bars of mint Aero.
With hundreds of animals/insects/creatures/things on the endangered species list, we can really call it a miracle when one of them comes off, and re-emerges in the wild, without any human intervention…
This part of the world may ordinarily be one of the most tranquil and beautiful holiday destinations, but this is not an easy place to live and if storms like this continue to strengthen, these people will have to move permanently. Global climate change anyone?
We humans are such narcissists sometimes a mass extinction might be what we deserve.
With more of us using the digital ether that is the Cloud platform, the technology is replacing physical storage of old (CDs, DVDs, magazines and floppy disks) and provides users with an invisible mainframe to maintain one’s digital life. But although the Cloud may seem intangible, somewhere in the world, massive servers are chowing through electricity.
Originally created as an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock still hangs on a board in the University of Chicago – and still ticks over with doomsday predictions.
The River Jordan is being dried up for use in irrigation, which has led the Dead Sea’s water levels to drop by about a metre every 12 months. The middle-eastern nations have reacted quickly, and signed an agreement that might just bring the Dead Sea back.
Well, they don’t want to put solar panels ALL OVER the moon, they just want to to put a cheeky little 400 kilometer-wide belt of solar panels around the moon. Casual.
With a maximum sustained wind speed estimated at 315kph, Typhoon Haiyan was probably the strongest tropical typhoon to make landfall in recorded history, meteorologists say.
National Geographic recently compiled an interactive map that allows us to examine what the Earth might look like if we allow all the sea-ice to melt. It is estimated that if said ice does melt, the ocean will rise by a full 66 metres. And anyone who knows how the ocean works will know that 66 metres is a stupendously ridiculous number that will have massive effects on the landscape.
When it comes to air pollution, China is pretty much the worst. Chinese citizens are used to grey skies in summer, acid rain in winter and choking smog all year round, but nothing quite like this has ever happened. Harbin, the rough-and-tough capital city of Heilongjiang province is home to some 11 million people – all of whom tried to evacuate at the same time, when pollution reached critical levels just yesterday.
The Maldives – well known for it’s crystal blue waters, brilliant white sands and those boats with the glass bottoms that let you see the coral reefs. This is the last place on earth you’d associate with the word “rubbish dump”. But there’s something sordid just a stone’s throw away from the swankiest hotels on earth. There’s something smelly on the horizon. It is ‘Rubbish Island’, and it stinks to high hell.
Another skyscraper is being added to the London skyline and usually, when this happens, complaints roll in about the view being spoiled, but that’s not entirely the case for the latest addition, dubbed, the ‘Walkie Talkie’. Complaints about this one have to do with melting expensive cars.
The North Pole Environmental Observatory has stated that the summer ice in the North Pole is melting away. Where there used to be snow, there is now meltwater.
Acclaimed researcher Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras, and Carl Young died on Friday in El Reno, Oklahoma, whilst tracking a gigantic twister.
If you weren’t around to see it yourself, here are some extraordinary photos of the sheets of white hail that covered the streets of Cape Town.
Yesterday, Twitter was booming with warnings of an ominous storm that was set to break over Cape Town. Some people didn’t take the storm warnings seriously enough, and it didn’t take long for Twitpics of flooded streets to roll in. Check out the full gallery
Guinea pigs don’t require the land that cattle do. They can be kept in backyards, or in your home. They’re docile and easy to raise. And they’re great with a wedge of lemon
Australian fire services have issued what they’ve called “catastrophic” warnings in parts of that country as temperatures are expected to breach 45C in the days to come.
We’re speaking in millimetres here, but that measurement rise is something that happens on a yearly basis. If you take say, 50 years, that does mean quite a rise in surface area that the seas cover.
Well this is disappointing. New research that examined the life-cycle impact of conventional and electric vehicles shows that in many cases electric cars might pollute much more than petrol or diesel-powered cars. So if you are looking to buy an electric car to save the planet, you could, in fact, be harming it.
The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has decreased to its lowest ever recorded size, and scientists say the melt season still has a few more weeks left.
Global warming is destroying the Great Barrier Reef. A scientist has published a paper today saying that radical ideas are needed to save the reef. Climate change has meant that the sea around world’s biggest coral reef has increased in temperature and acidity is slowly destroying the reef.