How much renewable energy could you buy for the 700 billion US dollars about to be spent bailing out failed banks? Here's a quick calculation.

I've just been reading an interesting article in Tuesday's English-language Japan Times. Journalist Bharti Legros eats some whale meat at a restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo, but then explores the different aspects of the whaling issue...

Here in the UK, bluefin tuna has suddenly become the posterboy for overfishing, largely thanks to the new film The End of the Line. I was at the premiere screening of the film (a documentary based on the book by journalist Charles Clover) here in...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: A Nuclear Reactor Shows Its Age ‘Almost every plan for limiting carbon dioxide output includes keeping old nuclear plants running. But as those plants age, they turn up new problems. The latest is at a...

Many a marriage and many a romance have blossomed aboard our ships, but I think this is a first. Po Paul, a deckhand onboard the Arctic Sunrise, just proposed to his girlfriend via a banner placed on deck and transmitted via the ships' webcam. She...

They're building a time capsule, and your message to the future could be in it. Very cool project. The time capsule will be sealed in Copenhagen, during the climate summit. Part of the idea is to get delegates thinking about which future they're...

It’s going to be a nuclear ‘renaissance’, they’ve told us. A dormant (or dying) and discredited nuclear industry was going to spring back to life, provide cheap, safe, reliable and clean electricity, and save us from catastrophic climate...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Britain poised to lose jobs as £10bn nuclear power plant contract goes to US ‘Thousands of jobs that were to have been created in Britain to build the next generation of nuclear power plants could be...