Science invades the humanitiesWHEN Google began scanning books and allowing them to be searched online in 2004, publishers fretted that their literary treasure would be ransacked by internet pirates. Readers,…
Day: December 16, 2010
Peat bogs and climate change: Wet, wet, wet
Forests are not the only habitat whose conservation matters to the climateRUSSIA does not normally spring to mind as being in the forefront of the fight against climate change. The…
Monitoring forests: Seeing the world for the trees
An international deal on deforestation makes it ever more important to measure the Earth’s woodlandsPERU’S forests cover 72m hectares of the country (278,000 square miles). That is three times the…
Volcanic eruptions: Guided by the lightning
A new way of protecting planes from the ash from volcanoesTHE explosive eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, an Icelandic volcano, wreaked havoc on air travel over the North Atlantic for several weeks…