Gambling With Our Planet

Coping with our cold planet.

Our Crowded Planet

This is an important book but unfortunately the people who need most to read it are the least likely to do so. It consists of a series of short essays by an unusual group of scholars ranging from biologists, historians and economists to lawyers, statesmen and clergymen. The population problem is approached from the various and varied points of view represented by these contributors, all of whom...

Drinking to, and gambling with, our health.

317 Reportage The government has recently proposed liberalising Britain's licensing laws, potentially paving the way for 24-hour alcohol consumption in public places. The BMA, together with the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners, has rightly criticised this, based on evidence that this will increase the already considerable cost to individuals and society...

ERA-PLANET, a European Network for Observing Our Changing Planet

ERA-PLANET is a wide European network comprised of 118 researchers from 35 partner institutions located in 18 countries, aiming to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation (EO) in coherence with the European participation to the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the program for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation, COPERNICUS. It will...

Planet Labels - How do we use our planet?

Accurate and up-to-date land cover classification data can be used for interesting applications in different fields; by tracking daily changes of forest cover in areas of interest it is possible to quickly detect illegal deforestation. Environmental scientists can further explore the consequences of climate change by measuring how fast ice cover is melting. Urban planners can track city growth ...