Lessons from London’s 1952 fog could save millions today
In December 1952, London experienced a catastrophe. As depicted in the Netflix series The Crown (which last year aired on Chinese streaming sites) the disaster...
Climate Bet for Charity, 2017 update
Posted on 3 March 2017 by Rob Honeycutt
In 2011 a bet was started up between "skeptics" of man-made climate change who follow Pierre Gosselin's...
Goddard's IceCube SmallSat ready for launch, space station deployment
An artist’s rendition of the IceCube small satellite in orbit. Once launched and deployed from the International Space Station, the IceCube team will spend...
Who will lose when globalisation retreats?
Globalisation has retreated before. The results were disastrous
Electric Cars are the Missing Link to a Zero Carbon Energy Grid
Posted on 2 March 2017 by Ryan Logtenberg
Since the start of the industrial revolution, humans have released hundreds of billions of tons of greenhouse...
Irish Seed Savers Association to host annual Seed Share event, Sunday 5th March
2nd March 2017
To kick off the growing season, the Irish Seed Savers will host their annual Seed Share event at their site in Scariff,...
Climate change made NSW’s hottest summer 50 times more likely
Sleepless nights and bushfire days; the hottest summer on record in the Australian state of New South Wales was made 50 times more likely due to climate...
The Native Woodland Trust saves a rare forest in the Slieve Bloom mountains
March 1, 2017
The Native Woodland Trust has announced the addition of 21 acres of Camcor Wood, Co. Offaly to its portfolio of woodland nature...
Recycling to inspire – Three countries getting creative to tackle waste management.
February 28th 2017
Panda Waste Management’s announcement that they are to attach a surveillance camera to its rubbish trucks as a way of identifying households...
Will Ticknock forest be preserved as a National Park?
March 1st 2017
State-owned forestry company Coillte has postponed the felling of trees in Dublin’s Ticknock forest as calls for its preservation for recreational use...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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