Environment news

• Artificial intelligence used to predict cancer growth

  01-09-2018 12:14 via bbc.co.uk
  A new technique picks out patterns in DNA mutation within cancers to forecast future genetic changes.
  
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• The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis

  01-09-2018 08:00
  Following Sweden’s hottest summer ever, Greta Thunberg decided to go on school strike at the parliament to get politicians to actWhy bother to learn anything in school if politicians won’t pay attention to the facts?This simple realisation prompted Greta Thunberg, 15, to protest in the most effective way she knew. She is on strike, refusing to go to school until Sweden’s general election on 9 September to draw attention to the climate crisis. Continue reading...
  
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• A different kind of emission: the religious roots of ‘pollution’

  01-09-2018 07:00
  The word may have initially been used to describe male wet dreams – but now there is no aspect of our environment that we are not intent on profaningAir pollution in big cities, we learned this week, causes large reductions in intelligence, which is perhaps one good reason for moving Parliament out of London. Toxic air is a scientific and health issue, but the way we speak of it has religious roots.“Pollution” comes from the Latin for the desecration of a sacred space, spiritua
  
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• Country diary: moon jellyfish in the swim

  01-09-2018 06:30
  Shieldaig, Wester Ross, Highlands: Thousands lie dead in the sea, each one a clear, gelatinous disc inset with four perfect, violet rings in tight formationPicking my way barefoot around the rocky headland, I notice the sea below is thick and soupy with a strange debris. Soft pastilles drift in the surf, swirling – slow, chaotic, ­kaleidoscopic ­– with each thrust of the waves. Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe, each one a clear, gelatinous d
  
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• Options on energy policy leave Coalition in a sticky situation | Katharine Murphy

  01-09-2018 00:50
  The government finds itself in a mess after the national energy guarantee was used as a catalyst to evict TurnbullWe’ve lost another prime minister in the front bar brawl that is Australian politics, but we’ve lost something else as well, something that’s a bit harder to see.
  For the last decade or more, a group of people in the political system have been trying to land a bipartisan consensus on energy policy and climate change, persevering through all the dispiriting cycles of
  
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• Australia to oppose Japan's push to reintroduce commercial whaling

  01-09-2018 00:07
  Government says it’s ‘very concerned’ about Tokyo’s ‘sustainable’ quotas, but hasn’t committed to sending minister Clashes expected over Japan’s bid to resume commercial whaling
  Australia will call for Japan’s push to reintroduce commercial whaling to be rejected at the critical upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting in Brazil. Continue reading...
  
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