Best of the Moment
energy-environment
south-asia
Philip Hoare | Slate | 5 March 2010
Once we hunted them for consumption: whale oil lit and lubricated the industrial revolution. Now we demand to be entertained by them. What they want, most probably, is to be left alone
Johann Hari | Nation | 4 March 2010
Overwrought, but amazing if true. Much of America's conservation lobby has been captured by funding from private industry, secretly opposes serious action against climate change
Big Picture | Boston.com | 27 February 2010
35 photographs from the earthquake zone: a couple of them grisly, all of them stunning. And a thread of 1200 comments
Alexander Cockburn | First Post | 26 February 2010
In defence of Tillikum, whale that killed its trainer last week. Captive whales have a history of mutiny. Only to be expected. They are wild animals, imprisoned and exploited like slaves
Bill McKibben | Mother Jones | 25 February 2010
The more evidence of climate change accumulates, the easier it is for skeptics to find procedural errors. They are winning battle for public opinion, by saying what public wants to hear
Geeta Anand | WSJ | 22 February 2010
Subsidies for fertiliser helped boost food production in 1960s, but has since encouraged massive overuse. Now soil degraded, crop yields falling, food imports rising
Anonymous | Economist | 16 February 2010
Climate change summit didn't produce advances in pledged emissions cuts, but it did lock-in pre-summit pledges. Developing countries have assumed a larger share of burden
Ralf Neukirch | Spiegel | 15 February 2010
Once rivals in the German government, now they lobby, claws-out, for competing gas-pipeline projects: Schröder's from Russia, Fischer's from Azerbaijan and Iran
Editorial | Observer | 7 February 2010
Fighting climate change will disrupt society. Public needs to trust science. Scientists need to work more openly. Secrecy and spin are self-defeating
Walter Russell Mead | American Interest | 1 February 2010
Scientists broke laws, hid data, made bogus claims. Strategists pushed for action that political system couldn't deliver. Victory to the populists. Palin 1, Gore 0