Deep robots
News
Robots dive to unlock the secret of the Earth’s crust.
Source: scenta
Date Published: May 15, 2008
The sloth sleeps tonight
News
First electrophysical recording made of a wild animal sleeping.
Source: scenta
Date Published: May 14, 2008
Plants send text messages
News
Crops can tell farmers they are thirsty via infrared thermometers.
Source: scenta
Date Published: May 08, 2008
Cyclone from space
News
Devastation was captured by the Envisat satellite.
Source: scenta
Date Published: May 08, 2008
Up in all weather
News
MIT professor leads team to design weather satellite.
Source: scenta
Date Published: April 29, 2008
Chelsea gives a glimpse of gardens in 2050. Hotter, drier, but remarkably short of cacti
Features
This year's Chelsea Flower Show will feature hundreds of gardens, and one greenhouse effect. Alongside the pavilions, water features, canopies, mosaic paths and rammed earth walls on display by the banks of the Thames next week, the show's organisers, the Royal Horticultural Society, have made climate change a key theme. From using willow as biofuel, to adapting flower gardens, a series of exhibits will tackle how to make a garden grow in a changing climate.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: May 17, 2008
Great white hope
Features
Gilbert Leavitt pulls up his thick parka hood against the biting wind, revs up his snowmobile and ploughs on through the ice of the Arctic tundra in pursuit of a polar bear he saw at America's most northerly point a few days ago. As a part-time tour guide from the Inupiat tribe who inhabit Alaska's harsh northern coastline, 350 miles inside the Arctic Circle, he knows many of the favourite hang-outs of the world's biggest bear and the best time of day to catch one frolicking in the snow.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: May 17, 2008
I remember when it was all about sandal-wearing, Guardian readers
Features
In the UK ethical investing started in 1984. I should know - I was the first national newspaper journalist to write about an investment fund that excluded shares in companies not because they wouldn't perform well, but because they did not conform to what investors considered moral or ethical.The article - although not in the Guardian - was derided by my erstwhile colleagues as "one for sandal-wearing Guardian readers and general bleeding hearts". Even my few sympathetic co-workers said it was a "loony American idea that would never catch on". In the hard-headed world of 1984 Fleet Street, it was not surprising that this first fund, Friends Provident (now F&C) Stewardship, was seen as a freak.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: May 17, 2008
The guerrilla gardening show
Features
At the entrance to the Urban Gardening exhibition, there is a large photograph of a middle-aged woman in Liverpool who is defiantly feeding pigeons at the front of her back-to-back terraced property. The neighbouring houses have been boarded up with metal sheets and her home is a vivid example of not giving in to the developers: it is a riot of colour thanks to the pot plants on her front step and beneath the front window.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: May 17, 2008
Barratt unveils zero-carbon house
Features
One of Britain's biggest builders, Barratt Developments, unveiled today what it said was the UK's first zero-carbon house built by a volume house builder.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: May 16, 2008
