“It doesn’t matter to me if a scientist says it may or may not leak. That’s not going to stop it from leaking when push comes to shove.”

Elisa Young, an anti-coal activist living near Mountaineer coal power plant in West Virginia, set to be the first to capture CO2 and bury it on-site (New York Times).

“This place is literally a bird cemetery.”

Andre Raine, conservation manager for BirdLife Malta, on an annual illegal hunt of 150 birds of prey and marsh birds on Malta (BBC).

“We have reasons to believe that people, especially children … will be instantly drawn into interacting with the numerous games and experiments.”

Xu Yanhao, curator of Beijing’s 102,000 square-metre Science Museum, which contains exhibits on The Beautifulness of Science and The Glory of China and which opened on 20 September (Global Times via Ali Baba).

“An elaborate conjuring trick, designed to make the public think that BA is serious about climate change while it carries on with business as usual.”

Greenpeace spokesperson on British Airways’ plan for the air travel industry to halve its 2005 emissions by 2050 (BBC).

“Creating devices that integrate with the human body, which is soft and curvilinear and stretchy.”

John Rogers, materials scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on what he’s doing with his $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship (Chicago Tribune).