Archive for October 2018
The collapse of Angkor holds a lesson for today’s cities
"Complex infrastructural networks provide critical services to cities but can be vulnerable to external stressors, including climatic variability."
Cheetahs are ‘sprinting toward extinction’
Only a little over 7,100 cheetahs, the planet’s fastest land animals, have remained in the wild.
WHO: Millions of children die from pollution-related causes
According to the WHO, some 1.7 million children under the age of five succumb globally to pollution-caused diseases.
Mammals on Earth will ‘need millions of years’ to recover
"We now live in a world that is becoming increasingly impoverished of large wild mammalian species."
UNIPCC report highlights urgent need for carbon-free power
Energy experts argue nuclear power should be a major component of our rescue from a more meteorologically destructive world.
Scottish Power is set to embrace wind power
An energy company in Glasgow has decided to go green by embracing wind power for all its electricity generation.