Ministers have been warned that many of the Government’s flagship reforms including the universal credit welfare system, the High Speed rail two train link and the replacement of Britain’s aircraft carriers are "unachievable" or "in doubt". Read more ...
A RISING tide of seaweed halted output at a nuclear power station when it threatened to clog up its cooling system. Read more ...
China is the world's largest coal producer and consumer. But they are also reported to be among the deadliest in the world. A photo tour of Chinese coal mines. Read more ...
An intelligent, humorous and balanced account of the coalition’s creation as seen from the - losing - Labour side [...] Read more ...
Series of potentially destructive computer attacks that have been targeting American oil, gas and electricity companies are Iran's way of retaliating against sanctions and the U.S.-Israeli cyber efforts to sabotage the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant, The New York Times reports. Read more ...
Infrastructure is never going to be the sexiest part of the deeply unsexy field which is public policy. But it is just about the most important - if it goes wrong. There are few rewards given to politicians who get our transport, digital and energy systems right. In the short term, they are bashed over the head by pressure groups and people who don [...] Read more ...
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times both report that recent cyber attacks against US oil, gas, and power companies have come from Iran. The hackers were targeting control systems and probing [...] Read more ...
BP, Shell and Statoil have been named in a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged oil price rigging, following the launch of a European Commission investigation into the oil giants. Read more ...
When it comes to views and expectations on climate change, a new Yale study finds there are "Six Americas." Which one are you in? Read more ...
Buying into unloved sectors at the right time can be a highly profitable strategy. One sector that stands out as being out of favour presently is mining. The FTSE World [...] Read more ...
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While the overall warming is about 0.16°C per decade, there are three ten-year periods where there was a hiatus in warming, as the graph above shows, from 1977 to 1986, from 1987 to 1996, and from 2001 to 2012. But at each end of these periods there were big jumps. We find exactly the same [...] [...] Read more ...
TOKYO (AFP) - Four researchers were exposed to radiation in an accident at a Japanese nuclear physics laboratory this week, officials said Saturday. Read more ...
At least 17 children have been burned to death after a gas cylinder exploded on their school bus in Pakistan, police say. Read more ...
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More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government report warns. Read more ...
Global warming is melting Mt Everest, making mountaineering more dangerous [...] Read more ...
Video courtesy: http://www.youtube.com/user/partiklip A waterspout has passed near Obninsk nuclear power plant on Thursday, some 110 km southeast of M [...] Read more ...
A memorial dedicated to 79 people who lost their lives in four oil industry-related air accidents around Shetland is due to be unveiled. Read more ...
The peer said it was a “big mistake” by Gordon Brown not to have prepared for a power-sharing deal in 2010 [...] Read more ...
Sale of all-island company is expected to generate about €1 billion for the State [...] Read more ...
TOKYO (AP) — An atomic research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 50 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility, the lab's operator said Saturday.The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said the accident occurred Thursday in its Hadron Experimental Facility at the Ja [...] Read more ...
HANNAH Worsley wants to change the law in NSW bringing in stricter regulations for Coal Seam Gas mining. Read more ...
A woman attacked by a tiger at the Cumbria wildlife park where she works dies of her injuries. Read more ...
Once you hit the age of 50, as I recently have, it becomes increasingly hard to keep your energy level up all day. Due to hormone imbalances that occur as you age, it's tough to stay in peak form from morning to night. Read more ...
A group of high schoolers from Kansas City, Mo. are about to embark on a very special road trip, using a car fueled entirely by social media. (Yes, you heard that right.) [...] Read more ...
SAN FRANCISCO — American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran. The targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government officials have r [...] Read more ...
Toronto artist Franke James says Stephen Harper's government tried to censor her artwork because it disapproved her views on climate change. Read more ...
Many of us who were around at the time were big fans of Alas Smith & Jones (1984-1998). Alas, Griff Rhys Jones has recently become embroiled in a row o [...] Read more ...
