UN claims University of East Anglia was deliberately hacked to derail climate summit

It was obvious. The timing was just too much of a coincidence. The UN is now claiming that data from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit was hacked into by climate change skeptics intent on derailing the talks which begin in Copenhagen tomorrow. Achim Steiner, director of the UN Environment Programme, had this [...]

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Vegetarianism comes to the world’s rescue

I’ve often contemplated going vegetarian. I really don’t eat all that much meat as it is, and I really don’t think I’d miss it all that much. I tried it for a while a few years back, but it never stuck. I think I missed certain foods. Bacon, for example. Daydreaming aside, I come from [...]

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Amazon deforestation at record low

Seven years ago, almost to the day, I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to spend some time in the Peruvian Amazon, near a place called Puerto Maldonado. It was my gap year and I travelled to Peru to teach English with an organisation called Teaching and Projects Abroad. As well as arranging [...]

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