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High speed trains, jet engines, or solid German engineering? What gets you there faster, in more style and with less stress? There is only one way to find out. Air travel is widely regarded as the bad boy of the green world, yet it is essential for many of us who must regularly travel due [...]
Dear Readers, Yesterday, Pem Charnley asked for less rhetoric and more investment in public transportation. This week, we are featuring articles on public transportation around the world. With the auto industry taking heat for emissions, it’s important to look to other feasable alternatives to personal transit. How far has any country come toward achieving a [...]
Carbon emissions from transport, as a contributing factor to climate change, is a hugely complex subject. Yet we must continue to address it, look for solutions, if we are ever to tackle global warming. Transport is too vast a topic to discuss as a whole. Instead, I want to just look at our behaviour on [...]
Lake Victoria, also known as Victoria Nyanza, is one of the Great Lakes of Africa. Measuring in at 68,800 square kilometers (26,560 mi²), it is the continent’s largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area. But as a result [...]
It has been said that any truly mature technology is indistinguishable from magic. However, as much as it has transformed our lives, the magic of electricity is something that we mostly take for granted – it’s readily available, relatively dependable, and cheap. But this may change during the next decade as many European countries begin [...]
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