facing the fire

Reports from India are pointing to an intense Indian monsoon this year [ Indian monsoon death toll soars ], saying "the rain on Tuesday...

Briefly looking at the news today, you will almost certainly have missed the announcement that the USA, China, India, Australia, South Korea...

I saw this link on the front page of the BBC news website today: BBC NEWS | Africa | Polygamy no fun, admits Ethiopian I'm not go...

Another story out of Wired, this one dated 16 May 2005, reports on the success Brazil is having with ethanol and biodiesel [ LINK ]. Usually...

In a story sent to me today by Mel S., Cyrus Farivar writes for Wired about Rwandan prisons recycling the human waste to generate first ener...

Hell-O blog-readers! After coming into the office this morning after a relaxing, news-free weekend, I started reading news and getting agita...

As I haven't really posted much lately, here's a little something from The End of Oil , which I'm just about done reading finall...

So, as my iMac continues to compile, I keep reading Nature articles to amuse myself. The editorial this week is about one Representative Joe...

Okay, one more while my iMac is compiling things... This year we have an extra second to savour (yeah, it looks British, doesn't it) ...

So this is just too cool not to post, despite it being off topic. Researchers from Australia have applied acoustic physics to understand how...

Will he actually do it? Will GWB actually say he believes in climate change? An article in the TimesOnline [ LINK ] suggests he might this w...

Wouldn't it be nice to have bio-degradable plastic? Well, it turns out that not only does it exist, but it's apparently gaining some...

The LA Times has a story today by Evelyn Iritani about the Chinese interest in US businesses [ LINK ]. I am particularly interested in how ...

Melinda Mahaffey reports on the Outside Online website [ LINK ] that the Planetary Society's experimental solar sailing spacecraft was l...

So a guy named Piltz has singled out Philip Cooney and Harlan Watson as key players in the administration misusing and misrepresenting clima...

I have commented before about how it is hard to write about findings and controversies in fields closely related to one's own. Today I...

A small story from NYTimes, by Danny Hakim, says that the trend in SUV purchases lost a little steam in the first quarter of 2005. Here'...

In a rather bland report, NYTimes reporter Felicity Barringer [ LINK ] says some long-time "environmentalists" are starting to acc...

It doesn't relate to the things I usually post here, but this is too cool not to mention. Some folks at Cornell have made a robot that r...

So I heard about this "new" website called GreenerChoices.org . I haven't looked at it much yet, but it might be useful from w...