Blog posts tagged "Climate change"

November 25, 2009 11:43 am No Comments

As a leading UK climate change expert says half the years between 2010 and 2019 will be hotter than 1998 – the hottest year ever, Jon Snow blogs from Brazil.

November 24, 2009 7:53 pm No Comments

I’ve been in Brazil for three days now, but only just woken up to the reality that the humungous city of Sao Paolo is only the beginning of it. This morning I broke out, and we drove more than 400 kilometres west – a distance, well, heading from London to well past Newcastle. Let me [...]

September 23, 2009 10:39 am No Comments

We were all spooked by it – the idea of a nuclear holocaust that would obliterate the world. As boys we talked about it a lot, at no time more so than after reading Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’. Set in Australia this was apocalyptic and desperately human account of the end of the planet. [...]

February 23, 2009 11:19 am No Comments

A seminar in central London for law students from 10 countries across the world, including Britain and the United States, will discuss the issue of torture within the context of domestic law. The lecture will be jointly delivered by Professor James Forman, professor of law at Georgetown university, Washington DC, and Helena Kennedy QC (currently [...]

February 16, 2009 5:59 pm No Comments

We thought the collision of two satellites in outer space last week unlikely enough. Now we have the absurd spectacle of two submarines, one British, one French, so completely in their “Secret Squirreledness” that they’ve actually collided with each other. So secret, indeed, was the collision that we’ve only heard about it nearly two weeks [...]