Farmers would do better to understand the land than grow GM crops
Dec 08, 2015 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Suppose your relationship is falling apart and you want to save it. To find the best counsellor, you might search online or ask your friends. Its no different in agriculture. The rational response to any food or farming...
Rather optimistic about oil in the medium to long term!
Dec 08, 2015 11:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided not to lower production at its meet last Friday. Keeping production at near-record levels in an oversupplied market has spooked investors grappling with reduced...
Meet the fossil fuel firms sponsoring the world's biggest climate conference
Dec 08, 2015 08:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In their recent book Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg argue that the reputation risk that flows from an association with (greenhouse...
FxWirePro: CAD/JPY to slip further around 90.50 upon multiple confirmation
Dec 08, 2015 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
Lot of mystifying has been happening in CADJPY when we consider the intermediate trend of this pair, it is struggling since 21st August to clear and sustain crucial resistance at 92.90 levels, since then weve been noticing...
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere won't save us: we have to cut emissions now
Dec 08, 2015 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Over 190 countries are negotiating in Paris a global agreement to stabilise climate change at less than 2℃ above pre-industrial global average temperatures. For a reasonable chance of keeping warming under 2℃ we can...
Growth in fossil fuel emissions slowed in 2015, so have we finally reached the peak?
Dec 08, 2015 02:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
Despite robust global economic growth over the past two years, worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuels grew very little in 2014, and might even fall this year. A report released today by the Global Carbon Project...
In the driver's seat of evolution
Dec 08, 2015 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Humans have had a profound influence over evolution; ours and the evolution of many other species. So much so today that we are without doubt in the drivers seat of evolution for many species, including our own. Weve...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects