Islands in the sun

According to an article posted on the EcoWatch web site (25 June 2019), millions of solar panels clustered together to form islands could be used to convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel air-planes and trucks.

Forests empty of birds, animals, trees – and people

“Tree-damaging pests pose ‘devastating’ threat to 40% of US forests” according to Oliver Milman writing in The Guardian (12 August 2019). Not quite as bad as 100% of the Amazonian forest being threatened by Brazil’s current president, but still alarming. What’s going on?

Golf balls in the snow

Sometimes you just can’t make it up!

Kashmir – a country where only fiction can be true

Nearly two billion people – a quarter of the world’s population – live in regions of extremely high water stress.

A tiny and fragile world

Three decades ago, astronomer Carl Sagan was already warning about climate change.

Cynicism rules while dappled things vanish

It’s our loss.