Oil has been used by humans since as far back as 3,000 BC, but the modern industry didn’t truly get up and running until the opening of the first commercial oil well in the mid-19th century. It was a pivotal source of energy in the development...
Tag - global warming
Climate-resistant architecture describes a new era in infrastructural design – one which recognises the changing landscape of climate across the world, as global warming continues to wreak ever-greater havoc on weather patterns and ecosystems. With...
Antarctica is an infamously vast, white continent. There’s ice and snow, maybe some penguins and seals, but that’s about it, right? One of the most uninhabitable land masses on this earth may look bleak and uninviting on the surface, but it is home...
From the time the first wind mills appeared in China, harnessing the energy provided by this natural phenomenon has been an important resource for the human race. Now, wind power has become a fantastic source of generating electricity due to the...
In the past decade, it has been a joy, not to mention a relief to watch the world’s transition toward a cleaner, more sustainable future gathering pace. Contrary to the opinions of the naysayers, evidence from the scientific community is all but...
A polar wilderness of grinding ice and frozen seas, the Arctic – defined by scientists as the area which falls within the line of latitude 66.5 degrees north of the Equator – is the furthermost northern tip of the planet.
