Bananas, food security and climate change
When I posted about importing bananas from the Philippines back in April I was hoping for two things. First, that someone would enlighten me as to what Biosecurity Australia meant in practical terms when they said that individual cases of [...]
Monbiot, air travel and targets
In the discussion thread of the post Climate crunch carbonsink @ 131 linked to Monbiot’s 2006 piece on air travel. Here’s an extract: …while the mean distance travelled by car in the UK is 9,200 miles per year, in a [...]
How the biggest bang in 2 million years nearly did us in
In North Sumatra, Indonesia, Lake Toba is 100 km long, 30 km wide and contains 240 cubic kilometres of water. It’s the residue of the biggest bang in the past 2 million years, the Mt Toba supervolcano eruption of 73,000 [...]
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