As deputy CEO of Dubai Media and the youngest member of the United Arab Emirates parliament, Najla Al-Awadhi has quickly risen to prime leadership positions in a society that is still largely male-dominated. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire in the United States, she has been outspoken a...

by David Adam Photograph: Sinibaldi/Getty Images The head of the UN body charged with leading the fight against climate change has conceded that Barack Obama will face a "revolution" if he commits the US to the deep carbon cuts that scientists and campaigners say are needed. Rajendra Pachauri, head ...

Creative Commons: DaveTrainer In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George Monbiot calls it "bunkum" and worse. The whole thing i...

It was not so long ago I wrote about an article I read which was arguing for the sequestration of carbon dioxide in the oceans of the world. I said this one did not even pass the Homer Simpson test for feasibility, yet I was bombarded by mo than a few saying I could not possibly know about what I wa...

An interactive map published by the NY Times allows you to find the immigrants, all the way back to 1880, just before my own ancestors came over from various parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The data is broken down into ten-year intervals and various countries and regions. Now that the presiden...

Chastising a scientist for not being a great orator is a bit like moaning at a footballer for not giving enlightening post-math interviews - it's not really their job. Inherently, scientists don't do rhetoric. They do facts, cold hard facts that can be tested, re-tested and tested again, and what's ...

Reuters: It's hard to visualize a water crisis while driving the lush boulevards of Los Angeles, golfing Arizona's green fairways or watching dancing Las Vegas fountains leap more than 20 stories high. So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years Australia is a lesson of wh...

With so many different players in the Ontario energy game, its hard to believe they all play by the same set of rules. This week on the show, we’ll speak with Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada,... read more...

I've always been a bit lukewarm towards mass appeals like Comic Relief.  The angry young man in me has sneered at the general public opting out of their selfish little lives for twenty-four hours to wear a silly red nose and part with a few quid, in return for a fundraising CD or some comm...

Before leaving the stage for another of her show's many wardrobe changes, Britney Spears accidentally announces to her giant crowd in Tampa, Florida that her "pu**y is hanging out." Guess somebody forgot to turn off the mic. Then again, we're talking about Britney Spears here - this kind of thing ju...