Within a decade or so, maybe sooner, a combination of accelerating climate change and the peaking of global oil supplies will put great strain on our present energy intensive way of life, but the political class has decided to postpone thinking about the environmental crisis. The war in Iraq ...
The end result will be a strain on OPEC supplies. In light of these numbers, the IEA issued a warning. “[W]e are emphasising an important message: more investment is needed in oil production capacity to avoid the risk of a sharp increase in oil prices” by the early 2020s. By Nick...
Today, scientists know that if two different types of flu infect a single animal at the same time—say a pig catches both a chicken strain and a human strain—the genes can shuffle to produce a totally new virus. But worry about bird flu as a threat to both poultry farms and humans ha...
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