Oliver Sacks, a wonderful writer on science of various sorts, points out the logic in converting to hybrid cars now – enough oil could be saved that way to replace the expected content of the ANWR reserve every few years.

The April issue of Wired magazine also has an excellent cover story on hybrids and the [...]

From the Technology Review blog:
Yesterday the United Nations released its Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report, and it does not portend good things for planet Earth, especially the developing parts of the planet.
Humans
have depleted 60 percent of the world’s grasslands, forests, farmlands,
rivers, and lakes. By now you know the litany: biodiversity is
disappearing, fisheries have collapsed, freshwater [...]

Oliver Sacks, a wonderful writer on science of various sorts, points out the logic in converting to hybrid cars now – enough oil could be saved that way to replace the expected content of the ANWR reserve every few years.

The April issue of Wired magazine also has an excellent cover story on hybrids and the [...]

Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or “dead zones” in the seas, an international report said on Wednesday.

The study, by 1,360 experts in 95 nations, said a rising human population had polluted or over-exploited two thirds of the [...]