Environment and science

Written 2008. Global security authorities are to push for a huge biometric facial scan database of international travellers so they can cross-check everyone against a database of terror suspects, international criminals...

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan could not attend a party meeting in Izmir on February 2nd in person. So he sent an enormous hologram of himself to be transmitted to the crowd who went wild with enthusiasm as he told them...

Written 2014. Just 200 years ago the fastest you could travel anywhere was the speed of a horse, and the idea of exploring space was the stuff of fantasy. Now humans have succeeded in sending the Rosetta space craft on...

Extract from Countdown book written in 2010. It is safe to say that if you meet someone who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked but I would rather not consider that)...

According to the Bible in the last days there will be a great crisis involving the environment in the last days.  Isaiah 24.5-6 prophecies a time when ‘The earth is also defiled (RSV translation is polluted) under its...

Written in 2009. ‘2009 is the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. … The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global...

Written 2013. In 2012 the UK experienced its ‘weirdest’ weather on record.  The driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest recorded April to June in a dramatic turnaround never documented before. July and...

Written in 1996. … when he wrote that: to suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection (evolution) seems absurd in the highest possible degree. Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins, who believes...