Global ambitions v green concerns
When the finalists at the French Open take to the clay court on June 8th and 9th, they may be witnessing the end of an era at the Roland-Garros stadium.
View ArticleBonfire of the subsidies
Europe’s wood subsidies show the folly of focusing green policy on “renewables”.
View ArticleApocalypse perhaps a little later
Climate change may be happening more slowly than scientists thought. But the world still needs to deal with it.
View ArticleA sensitive matter
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away.
View ArticleCostly drops
Removing salt from seawater might help slake some of northern China’s thirst, but it comes at a high price. Chinese officials are fond of grandiose engineering projects.
View ArticleTroubled turn
Germany’s national energy project is becoming a cause for disunion. Like many German regions, northern Saxony around Leipzig is humming with the word Energiewende.
View ArticleCopper solution
The mining industry has enriched Chile. But its future is precarious. Tourist shops sell polished copper trinkets. Building after building sports a bit of copper cladding.
View ArticleLogging the good news
The president has helped transform a debate about forest conservation. Indonesia’S president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not known as a conviction politician.
View ArticleUrban transport in Latin America
Those Latin Americans who can afford one are just as wedded to the car as their counterparts north of the Rio Grande. And thanks to the region’s long boom, more and more have bought vehicles.
View ArticleDrug dependence
Less is sometimes more. That was the message delivered this week by Meghna Das Thakur of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, in Emeryville, California, to the American Association for Cancer
View ArticleCopper solution
The mining industry has enriched Chile. But its future is precarious. Tourist shops sell polished copper trinkets. Building after building sports a bit of copper cladding. Even the taxi-drivers in...
View ArticleLogging the good news
The president has helped transform a debate about forest conservation. Indonesia’S president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not known as a conviction politician. Rather, his leadership has been...
View ArticleNot always with us
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030. In September 2000 the heads of 147 governments pledged that they would halve the proportion of people on the
View ArticleSome are more equal than others
China’s need for a new urbanisation policy reaches a critical point. For many migrants who do not live in factory dormitories, life in the big city looks like the neighbourhood of Shangsha East Village:
View ArticleAt the trough
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN once sang about “going on the town now looking for easy money”. As easy money goes, it is hard to beat farm subsidies. Handouts for American farmers were a tasty $256 billion between
View ArticleGlobal ambitions v green concerns
When the finalists at the French Open take to the clay court on June 8th and 9th, they may be witnessing the end of an era at the Roland-Garros stadium. The French Tennis Federation (FFT), which organises
View ArticleBlown away
On a breezy day in October last year the governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback, took a tour of his state’s flourishing oil- and gas-exploration industry. But as the bus travelled across the open plains it
View ArticleTilting at windmills
OSTERATH’S 12,000 citizens are angry. Their quiet backwater in the Ruhr, close to Düsseldorf, is the proposed site for the biggest converter station in Europe. This vast installation will transform...
View ArticleTime to dig deep
A long-awaited bill ends uncertainty, but will hit mining companies’ profits Four years after Brazil’s government said it was planning a radical rewrite of mining laws, on June 18th the industry, which
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