Articles by Steve Connor
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Revealed: UK Government’s Radical Plan to ‘Burn Up’ UK’s Mountain of Plutonium
Steve Connor , Science Editor – The Independent,
2 Dec 2013
A radical plan to dispose of Britain’s huge store of civil plutonium – the biggest in the world – by “burning” it in a new type of fast reactor is now officially one of three “credible options” being considered by the Government, The Independent understands.
→ read full articleUS Tells Scientists to Censor Flu Research
Steve Connor – The Independent,
26 Dec 2011
The United States Government has taken the unprecedented step of asking scientists to censor key parts of their work describing how they managed to mutate the H5N1 bird flu virus into a strain that could be highly infectious and deadly to humans.
→ read full articleCatastrophic Drought in the Amazon
Steve Connor, Science Editor – The Independent,
7 Feb 2011
Region Set to Outstrip US as CO2 Emitter
→ read full articleThe Chance Discovery That Averted Ecological Disaster
Steve Connor – The Independent,
10 May 2010
How the hole in the ozone layer was discovered by UK scientists a quarter of a century ago.
→ read full articleGLOBAL WARMING MAKES TREES GROW AT FASTEST RATE FOR 200 YEARS
Steve Connor - The Independent,
10 Feb 2010
Forests in the northern hemisphere could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern America. The trees appear to have accelerated growth rates due to longer growing seasons and higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists have […]
→ read full articleCUT EMISSIONS OR ACIDITY WILL KILL CORAL REEFS, SCIENTISTS SAY
Steve Connor, Science Editor,
1 Jun 2009
‘Underwater Catastrophe’ is Imminent Without Action Rising acidity in oceans is leading to a global catastrophe that would be unparalleled in tens of millions of years, according to the national science academies of 69 countries which want governments to take the issue more seriously in the run-up to the December climate change conference in Copenhagen. […]
→ read full articleNUCLEAR POWER? YES PLEASE…
Steve Connor, Science Editor,
23 Feb 2009
Exclusive: leading greens join forces in a major U-turnBritain must embrace nuclear power if it is to meet its commitments on climate change, four of the country’s leading environmentalists – who spent much of their lives opposing atomic energy – warn today. The one-time opponents of nuclear power, who include the former head of Greenpeace, […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE CHANGE AT THE POLES IS MAN-MADE
Steve Connor, Science Editor,
31 Oct 2008
Scientists Refute Sceptics by Proving that Human Activity Has Left Its Mark on the Arctic and Antarctic Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse […]
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