Science – Sublime

The Great Forest Restoration

Emily Bowles — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:17:30 +0000

Taking us from the barren sites of illegal logging and monocrop farming to the smouldering rainforests of the amazon. Fred Pearce in his latest book tells a revelatory new history of the relationship between humans and trees. Fred Pearce is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported from over 87 countries during his career....

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Time to Get Tough on Plastic

Franca Davenport — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:11:46 +0000

Plastic has become an essential but disposable part of our lives particularly over the festive season. Whatever your choice of fayre or gift it’s difficult to avoid and, although recycling may alleviate some of our guilt, the amount of plastic in the environment is a major cause for concern. So much so that scientists are...

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Litter In The Arctic

Eoin Lynch — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:21:31 +0000

A recent study carried out by the Alfred Wenger Institute has shown that a more immediate problem is the growing trend of litter being found on the seabed. Dr. Melaine Bergmann and Michael Klages noticed an increase in the debris they were seeing from shots taken by their research vessels often towing cameras at a...

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The Eden Prescription

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

‘The science of cancer started back in the 1920s, when it was understood to be due to uncontrolled cell division. Since cells divide at the nucleus first, the pharmaceutical industry targeted the nucleus. But progress was slow. By 1960, the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) had approved only six anti-cancer drugs – all of...

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Out of the Blue

Laura Santamaria — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The story goes that Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo was poised to agree to a giant new salt works in San Ignacio lagoon. The pristine spot is vital for gray whale calving area but Mitsubishi were on board and the $100million project was to be a big money-spinner for the country. But then he went whale...

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A Greener Environment

laurasan — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:42:44 +0000

This system was created by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to properly evaluate the environmental efficiency of buildings while offering a reliable, universal standard to which architects can refer when creating a sustainable design.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

laurasan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:49:00 +0000

What’s 17 times 24? You probably can’t be bothered to work out the answer. The part of the brain necessary is what Daniel Kahneman calls System 2, the ‘thinking’ bit that is only occasionally used for unexpected problems. System 1, on the other hand, rumbles along continuously in the background, effortlessly completing the regular tasks...

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The Viral Storm

laurasan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:05:59 +0000

With the human race constantly under threat of total annihilation, either from weapons of mass destruction or natural disaster, it is interesting to know that we are surrounded by a ‘seen’ and ‘unseen’ world, where ‘the unseen life is the truly dominant life on our planet’. Wolfe tells the story of how deadly viruses...

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The Secret Life of Plants

Laura Santamaria — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:30:04 +0000

With populations growing and land available for production shrinking, feasible solutions to our future food security are crucial. Self-proclaimed plant magicians PlantLab dig deep into science to find the ideal mix of water, light, temperature, nutrition and CO2 to create what they call Plant Paradise. Using holistic systems thinking, PlantLab is on a quest to...

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Finding Your Soul

Laura Santamaria — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Some years ago, I was talking to a young woman who, with her husband, was preparing to work with an aid agency in the developing world. It sounded like quite a sacrifice they were making, and I asked her how they had received this vocation. This was the story she told me

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