Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* El Reino Unido anunció que en octubre 2011 comenzará un experimento unilateral de geoingeniería, es decir, de manipulación climática. Es la primera parte de un proyecto mucho mayor para inyectar partículas azufradas en la estratósfera, creando una especie de nube volcánica artificial, para desviar parte de la radiación solar que llega a la [...]
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* Al comenzar las negociaciones de cambio climático en Bonn, Christiana Figueres, secretaria ejecutiva de la Convención de Cambio Climático, declaró que vamos hacia “un escenario donde tendremos que desarrollar tecnologías más poderosas para poder absorber el carbono de la atmósfera” (The Guardian, F.Harvey, 5/6/11) Se refería a la geoingeniería, la manipulación [...]
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* El pasado 11 de mayo, el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen) presentó en un acto mediático, con la presencia entusiasta de Felipe Calderón, el llamado “Mapa del genoma de los mexicanos”. Se presentó como un gran avance científico, vinculándolo oportunistamente hasta con el estudio del virus de la gripe porcina. Obviaron sin [...]
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Written for The Ecologist – February 2009 available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2053 Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thomas sorts through the big tech ideas you’ll be reading about this year Almost every day sees new technologies being proposed to fix old problems. [...]
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Jim Thomas Written for The Ecologist – November 2008 Don’t be fooled by The Cloud – the world of the internet seems weightless, but it is leaving an increasingly heavy footprint behind it Do you know where your email is stored and what it costs the environment to store it there? For millions of people [...]
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Written for The Ecologist 01/10/2008 Available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1978 If there is a video gamer in your life, chances are that you have heard of Spore, the latest creation from the super successful inventor of ‘The Sims’. Spore lets players digitally design and evolve new organisms ranging from single-celled microbes to intergalactic aliens. In the [...]
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Mapmaking and conquest has a disturbingly close history. As indigenous people learned, the innocuous mapmaker may be followed by weapons, property claims and exploitation. So too for the recent rash of science projects using mapping
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Written for The Ecologist – 20/06/2008 As to global annihilation, I’m stumped. Most of us wouldn’t recognise a strangelet if it casually devoured us in the street There’s a slim chance – about one in 50 million – that nobody will ever read this article. A physics experiment taking place under the French-Swiss border could [...]
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Now that you can drive your ‘nano’ car, listening to your ipod ‘nano’ while wearing ‘nano’ sunscreen and ‘nano’ clothing, the UK’s largest organic certifier has just introduced the perfect nano-antidote – a ‘nano-free’ standard for consumer products. The Soil Association – one of the world’s pioneers of organic agriculture announced today that it is [...]
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