Monomania is a serious disorder, characterized by, according to my dictionary, “excessive concentration on a single object or idea.” In the case of much of American farming, that single object is the ...

The UN’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday delivered a preliminary report on their review of Japan’s efforts to plan and implement the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that ...

A burst of colour on a monochromatic panorama, a field of flowering quinoa plants in the Bolivian desert is a thing of beauty. A plant ready for harvest can stand higher than a human, covered with ...

The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...

Agroforestry — the integration of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock systems — has strong potential in addressing problems of food insecurity in developing countries. Done well, it allows ...

Nuclear power requires obedience, not transparency. The gap between nuclear rhetoric and nuclear reality has been a fundamental impediment to wise energy policy decisions for half a century now. For ...

Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have ...

私たちの暮らしが数多くの家電製品に囲まれるようになったのは、それほど昔の話ではありません。現在の洗濯機の原型といわれる噴流式洗濯機が、日本 で最初に発売されたのは1953年。

Bid adieu to Bordeaux, but also, quite possibly, a hello to Chateau Yellowstone. Researchers predict a two-thirds fall in production in the world’s premier wine regions because of climate change. The ...

日生（ひなせ）は本州の南岸に位置し、日本最大の閉鎖性海域である瀬戸内海に面している。この町は、水産業が有名であり、約200軒の漁業従事世帯がカキ養殖、小型底びき網、定置網漁を ...

世界で使用される電気電子機器の総量は毎年、250万トンずつ増えている。電話機やラジオ、おもちゃなど、電源や電池が使われている機器の多くは、使用後に電気電子機器廃棄物（e-waste）と ...

Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for ...