CSI: Geoscience unit

While my colleagues were sitting down to the office canteen’s Christmas lunch yesterday, I was down at London’s Geological Society looking at powerpoint slides of decaying corpses. Christmas may come once a year, but it’s only every other year that the Forensic Geoscience Group holds a conference.

Visa problems delay reps to Poznan conference

Visa problems delay reps to Poznan conference

The entire Liberian delegation showed up late to the UN climate change conference in Poznan, Poland. The reported reason: slothlike Polish bureacrats. They had to wait out the talks’ first week in Nigeria, where other African attendees were also held up, before the Polish embassy there granted them visas.

Zimbabwe admits cholera epidemic is an emergency

Only last week, according to the BBC, the Zimbabwean government said that the cholera epidemic rampaging through the country since August and making news since late October was not an emergency. Now a national emergency has officially been declared, reports the local state-controlled Herald. Economic ruin under Mugabe’s regime has closed hospitals and apparently left the country helpless in the face of a treatable disease.

World-record solar car makes an impact in Poznan

World-record solar car makes an impact in Poznan

With UN climate change bigwig Yvo De Boer waving from the passenger seat, the first solar-powered car to travel around the world completed its journey yesterday by smashing through a wall of polystyrene bricks at the climate conference in Poznan, Poland.