The cost in terms of life and economic loss has not been finalised however one week later the current tally from the Victorian bushfires rea...

New Scientist reports (Jan 31, 2009) that the number of undernourished polar bears has tripled over the past twenty years. Polar bears only ...

While I'm sitting here trying to overcome a procrastination (rather than writer's block) my thoughts again turn to why I want to wri...

Each year, once again Valentine's Day comes around on 14 February. Although its history has stronger religious overtones, from Geoffrey ...

As the US political leadership wrangles over the stimulus package, President Obama has commented that if he doesn't fix things in three ...

The question of economic stimulus packages is problematic in the Western economies. Will the availability of large sums of public money to b...

Summing up the current World situation is rather confronting - environmental degradation/climate change; financial markets across all major ...