Launching a global pro-science movement
The date April 22, 2017 may go down in history as a world first. Not only was it the first time that scientists took to the streets to march in […]
Tanzania is burning GM corn while people go hungry
Bad science costs lives It’s late afternoon in Makutupora and technicians wearing blue overalls pour sacks of maize onto a bonfire. They exchange a few wistful looks as the flames […]
Scientists to take to the streets in global march for truth
Scientists and science supporters will take to the streets in a global March for Science on 22 April . What began as a small Facebook group in the US capital, Washington DC […]
Trump’s climate policies put China in charge of our future
In a rational world, people would take climate change more and more seriously as real-world evidence for its damaging effects mount. The dying of the Great Barrier Reef; the crippling, ongoing drought in […]
Drought-tolerant maize shows promise in Tanzania
Tanzania’s first-ever genetically modified crop — a field trial of drought-tolerant maize intended to benefit small-scale farmers suffering the effects of climate change — is proceeding well and will be […]
A tribute to Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling had a way with numbers. A health practitioner, teacher and statistician, he challenged millions of peoples’ preconceptions about basic issues like poverty and population growth. He did this […]
2016 breaks global heat records
Scientists from three different agencies have announced that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded, setting an annual temperature record for the third year in a row. It is now […]