The Space Telescope Science Institute suggests that there are currently 1020, or 100 billion billion, Earth-like planets in the universe, with an equivalent number of gas giants. “Earth-like” doesn’t mean an exact replica of our planet, but rather a rocky world that, if blanketed by a suitable atmosphere, would hold liquid water on its surface. …
Bees are dying in record numbers – and now the US government admits that an extremely common class of pesticide, called neonicotinoids (or neonics) are at least partially to blame. Neonics, of which there are five types, are marketed by European chemical giants Bayer, BASF and Sygenta. Millions of acres of farmland are treated with …
Montaigne “All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate”. (Michel de Montaigne)
(with apologies for the length; it isn’t possible to summarise this in a paragraph) The U.N. Economic and Social Council presented its first report on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals towards ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and tackling climate change by 2030. These are some of the main findings: The good news: – The proportion of the …
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Trump (tweets):”This very expensive global warming bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temperatures, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice”.”Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record-setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!” (Quoted by Elior Weinberger in the London Review of Books)
