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Keywords: Fossil Fuels

  • ENVIRONMENT

    Environmental complexities of the modern dishwasher

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 30 October 2006

    Because of the intricate nature of all the interactions involved, the best course of action in environmental matters is rarely clear or obvious. We just need to be grateful for decisive political leaders.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Melt down

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 11 May 2006

    One joy of following scientific progress is seeing it connect threads of knowledge into a tapestry revealing a picture of a previously unknown scene.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Galileo’s legacy

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 30 April 2006

    An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    A hard rain

    • Robert Hefner
    • 23 April 2006

    If our actions are contributing to a climate which makes catastrophic hurricanes more likely, surely we owe it to the dead, maimed and homeless  to examine those actions more closely.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Power politics

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 23 April 2006

    Regarding climate change, what we need is not a new way of engineering but a new way of living.

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