Choking China: The struggle to clear Beijing's air
As pollution levels return to normal in China's capital after a record-breaking month of smog, what can be done to banish the smog?
New Scientist
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Call to delay judgement on cellphone brain cancer risk
<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style>A definitive assessment of whether cellphones pose a risk of brain cancer to their users should be put on hold, campaigners are claiming. The mainstream view is that there is no evidence for any such risk.
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Wind power harnesses the energy of galloping
<p>The thought of wind power brings visions of giant turbines, high-altitude kites and graceful sailboats to mind. But the breeze has a more sinister side, full of turbulence that can wreak havoc with bridges and other structures.
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Time to wave the green-spangled banner
<p>The best way to promote clean energy is to ignore climate change and focus on things like jobs, money and national security.</p> <p>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028145.900-time-to-wave-the-greenspangled-banner.html</p>
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What we can learn from Fukushima
<p>Why did one nuclear site in Fukushima escape damage from the earthquake? Mike Weightman is going there to discover what lessons can be learned.</p> <p>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028146.000-nuclear-inspector-what-we-can-learn-from-fukushima.html</p>
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Prepare for the renewable oil gush
<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style></p> <p><font size="2"><i>Efforts to squeeze fuel out of microbes have passed a turning point. (Editorial)<br /> </i></font></p> <p><font size="2"><i>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028135.100-prepare-for-the-renewable-oil-gush.html</i></font></p> <p> </p>
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Quake engineer: Earthquakes don't kill, buildings do
<p>Elizabeth Hausler aims to bring quake-resistant construction to the developing world : Interview.</p> <p>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.300-quake-engineer-earthquakes-dont-kill-buildings-do.html</p>
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The climate change threat to nuclear power
<p>The accident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan has led to much discussion about the future of nuclear power. I believe one important lesson of the accident has been overlooked. Nuclear power is often touted as a solution to climate change, but Fukushima serves as a warning that far from solving the climate problem, nuclear power may be highly vulnerable to it.</p>
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Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life
<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style></p> <p><font size="3"><i>Microbes with tweaked DNA can convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into oil, but will it ever power our cars?</i></font></p> <p><font size="3"><i>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.200-renewable-oil-ancient-bacteria-could-fuel-modern-life.html?full=true&print=true</i></font></p> <p> </p>
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Wind is Japan's strongest alternative to nuclear
<p>TWO months after the explosions and radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the prime minister, Naoto Kan, has announced that the country will not build any new reactors. If Kan really means it, the government will have to abandon the plans for expanding nuclear power it adopted only last year.
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Time to rethink megaquakes
<p>For more than 1000 years, we have known that the seas off the coast of Sendai in Japan can turn treacherous. An account of how one quake unleashed a flood that swept away a castle town can be found in Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (The True History of Three Reigns of Japan), completed in AD 901 for the emperor. (Editorial)</p>