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• Saving Mother Ganga

• A bright future for fossil fuels?

• Disappearing earth

• Offshore wind power - Saviour or sinner?

• Britannia rules the waves

 

Offshore wind power - Saviour or sinner?

The Government says offshore wind power is crucial to stopping global warming. Others warn that the thousands of windmills appearing in British waters will cause more problems than they solve. Is wind power an environmental saviour, or sinner? Read more...

A bright future for fossil fuels?

Will storing greenhouse gases in underground reservoirs allow us to tackle climate change immediately, while making an easier transition to a low-carbon economy?

250 km of the coast of Norway, the Sleipner-West gas platform stands over the stormy waters of the North Sea. It looks no different to any of the other huge conglomerations of steel that dot the waters of Norway’s highly productive gas and oil fields, but this platform is home to a unique and controversial experiment. Some believe it will be an essential step towards the rapid and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions necessary to prevent global warming; others see it as a dangerous attempt to dump industrial waste beneath the ocean floor. Read more...

Disappearing earth

The global threat of soil erosion

Among the soaring pyramids of the Maya in Central America, or the enigmatic statues of Easter Island lies a mystery that has long puzzled archaeologists – how did these grand civilisations fall? But after years of dramatic theories about their fate, it is beginning to look like many of these fabulous cities were not defeated by some terrible disaster, but by the same environmental problems that face our civilisation today. Read more...