July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
... and implementation of the post- 2015 Agenda: A global partnership: GEO is a global partnership designed to address global environment observation and monitoring activities. The post MDG/SDG approach calls for global partnerships as one of the ...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... and subsurface temperatures, to chemical analysis of dust and gas, to studying the interaction of the comet with its environment (the solar wind), will give us a much better understanding of: how comets work; where the material comes...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
.... One way for this to happen is for humans to try to terraform another planet. That is, to redesign its surface environment so that it is similar to Earth. Our closest neighbour, Venus, is not a good candidate for terraforming because it has a hot...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... pathfinder payloads include in-situ radiation monitoring, remote sensing imaging of the upper atmosphere to study its meteoroid environment, and an education payload centred on detecting the ozone layer. …where the sky is black and the Earth...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... population is resulting in a situation where the cure has become the problem. This means that in the current environment existing economic tools are no longer providing growth of the kind enjoyed since the end of the Second...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... be suddenly rendered inoperable or severely degraded. As we add more people, more vital infrastructure and move to a highly urban environment with perhaps 70 per cent of all people living in urban centres, the vulnerability of humans all over the...
