The eruption that changed Iceland forever (BBC news online)
A far more devastating eruption 227 years ago wiped out a fifth of the island’s population.
Continue Reading Add comment April 16th, 2010
Posts filed under 'Climate change'
Smeared scientists must still mend their ways (Financial Times)
Climate naysayers sent out a collective whoop of delight. E-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit had proved that the theory of man-made climate change was a scientific conspiracy.
Continue Reading Add comment December 17th, 2009
Definitely maybe (Financial Times magazine)
Climate scientists are like an exotic tribe – fascinating, sometimes hard to understand and rarely visited.
Continue Reading Add comment November 21st, 2009
Plight of the predator (Daily Telegraph magazine)
Twenty feet down through the hazy blue of the Caribbean, several lean, grey Zeppelins cruise silently by.
Continue Reading Add comment February 2nd, 2008
Barrage balloon goes up (Planning)
With the second highest tidal range on the planet, the Severn is one of the tidal wonders of the world.
Continue Reading Add comment August 10th, 2007
Living and breathing (New Statesman)
It’s been 16 years since I last set foot in a science lab, and reading this book had a sobering effect.
Continue Reading Add comment April 30th, 2007
Climate campaigner (Planning)
Inspecting George Monbiot’s apple trees on a sunny August morning lulls me into a false sense of security.
Continue Reading Add comment September 23rd, 2005