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- Green Earth Books and Environmental Books Tue, 27 Oct 09, 1:47amBooks we recommend about green and environmental issues. Great place to start learning how to be more green in your day to day life.
- Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK Sat, 19 Oct 24, 3:00pmWorld Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear power
- Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power Wed, 4 Sep 24, 7:50pmNuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?
- Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals Wed, 5 Jun 24, 10:27pmInvestment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure
- Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals end ties with Baillie Gifford Wed, 5 Jun 24, 10:27pmInvestment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure
- ‘A picture of hell’: inside the UK’s nuclear reactors – in pictures Wed, 21 Feb 24, 6:00pmArmed with a Geiger counter, Michael Collins was given access to multiple power stations across the UK – he found them tranquil, beautiful and sinister
- I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong Tue, 2 Jan 24, 6:00pmIn an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world...
- A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna review – the laws of life Wed, 27 Sep 23, 6:00pmIs it possible – or even desirable – to study people with the scientific detachment of a physicist studying matter?
- The big idea: why climate tribalism only helps the deniers Mon, 10 Jul 23, 9:30pmFrom nuclear power to electric vehicles, battles between activists risk getting in the way of reducing emissions
- The big idea: will fusion power save us from the climate crisis? Mon, 3 Apr 23, 9:30pmRecent breakthroughs have been wildly hyped – but there’s still reason to hope
- ‘We had to leave home for a better future’: Kate Beaton on the brutal, drug-filled reality of life in an oil camp Thu, 15 Sep 22, 10:30pmBefore work like Hark! A Vagrant made her famous, the Canadian cartoonist spent two years in the Alberta wilderness, see-sawing between boredom and fear for her safety...
- Volt Rush by Henry Sanderson review – creating a clean energy world is possible Sun, 17 Jul 22, 4:00pmThe journalist’s thorough investigation finds that corporations are unearthing alternatives to fossil fuels. Who will benefit?
- Wildlife photography book takes you on BIG armchair safari Sat, 16 Jul 22, 3:30amMost of us will probably never get so close to a great white shark that we can count its double row of teeth. And one could argue that’s for the best. But animal aficionados can see sharks and bears and other giant animals...
- New travel book "Around the World in 80 Spiritual Places" Tue, 28 Jun 22, 2:30amI frequently visit cemeteries, but was especially excited to be at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn last month. This historic cemetery is an enormous greenspace, fronted by gothic arches and full of birds, prairie dogs, flowering...
- This new book documents a permaculture hotspot in Berlin Thu, 9 Jun 22, 2:30amHidden away in Berlin’s historical bohemian district of Rixdorf in Neukölln is a special garden and restaurant called Café Botanico. When Architectural Photographer Liz Eve stumbled upon the café, she was immediately...
- Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear Sat, 14 May 22, 6:00pmMounting tensions with Russia, a global pandemic and a reckless scramble for nuclear energy: the echoes of 1957 are alarming – we would do well to heed them