Our Planet Today

Saturday September 4th 2010

Environment

Swedish Government Wins Greenwash Award

The Swedish right-wing government has won the yearly greenwash award in Sweden! The greenwash award is given to a company or a person who have done the best job to avoid real environmental action, and instead put effort into creating a fake green image. Friends of the Earth has, after a period of public online voting, given this award to Andreas Carlgren, the Swedish Environment Minister. What [...]

Global warming evidence »

A new report released by the Met Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has come to the [...]

Space

Into the Interstellar Void »

We often think about interstellar probes only in the context of what they find at the end of their [...]

HR 8799b: Low Temperatures, »

Photos of the Earth from a significant distance are always fascinating, dating back to the spectacular [...]

SETI and the ‘Long Stare’ »

It’s been a week with an exoplanet focus, what with the interesting Kepler results yesterday and the [...]

Economics

Krugman reestimates the Mankiw rule »

This scatterplot is from Paul Krugman. x is the core inflation rate minus the unemployment rate. y is the federal funds rate. It [Read More]

Technology

Samsung Galaxy Tab »

Here it is official at last, a true competitor to the iPad, the Galaxy Tab. WE’ve [...]

Having trouble »

Electronic component shortages may last through 2011 via Chris... Memory chips and other [...]

PS3 Slim : 320GB »

The console tug of war continues. Sony not that long ago released the slimmed down [...]

Climate

Purported eco-terrorist shot and »

UPDATE: Shockingly, Anthony Watts stands behind his offensive post and comments. Comments are stopped on this post as of 10:31 pm ET, resuming around 6 am, for reasons discussed below. Today, a demented, violent individual held people hostage with a gun and bombs strapped [Read More]