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Green food – have you had your say?
Government experts are seeking your views on food. Recognising the need to increase food production while enhancing the environment, DEFRA has set up an online discussion forum as part of ‘The Green Food Project’. The Project is th... Read More »
Collaborating with industry to protect biodiversity
We saw the worst-case scenario of the dangers of oil and gas extraction in 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and caused the biggest oil spill in US history. The event was also a public relations disaster... Read More »
James Martin lecturer uses Facebook as giant laboratory
It's no secret that the web offers up a lot of data. Every site we visit, item we buy, contact we make and preference we reveal is mapped and logged.....Ultimately; almost every move we make leaves electronic footprints that are recorded somewh... Read More »
Climate costs could be way off target
A new report: "Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change" warns that current UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change have substantially underestimated the cost of adapting to its impacts. The UN Framework Convention... Read More »
Geoengineering the climate?
The future of the Earth could rest on potentially dangerous and unproven geoengineering technologies unless emissions of carbon dioxide can be greatly reduced, a new report from the Royal Society has found. Professor Steve Rayner, Director of t... Read More »
Brain-boosting drugs - just another headache for policymakers?
A report by the Academy of Medical Sciences looking at different aspects of drug use and mental health has identified a growing trend for off-label use of drugs intended for the treatment of diseases including narcolepsy, ADHD and Alzheimer's. ... Read More »
- Alexander Leveringhaus
- Alison Stibbe
- Andrew Pontzen
- Caspar Henderson
- Clare Heywood
- David Rodin
- Devi Sridhar
- Eric Beinhocker
- Gilles Giacca
- Gillian Petrokofsky
- Guy Houlsby
- Hein de Haas
- Hugo Slim
- Ian Goldin
- James Marrow
- Javier Lezaun
- Jennifer Welsh
- Julia Banfield
- Julian Savulescu
- Justin Bishop
- Kazem Rahimi
- Lucy Crittenden
- Maria Villares Varela
- Marian Dawkins
- Mathias Czaika
- Megan Lynagh
- Natalie Day
- Nigel Moore
- Oliver Bakewell
- Peter Taylor
- Phil Renforth
- Quentin Sattentau
- Rafaela Hillerbrand
- Richard Branson
- Richard Reschen
- Richard Willden
- Serena Sharma
- Sophie Hackford
- Steve Rayner
- Stuart Armstrong
- Sunetra Gupta
- Susan Curran
- Takafumi Nishino
- Tim Kruger
- Toby Ord
- Tom Aubrey-Fletcher