Is it a bird, is it a plane…?

Renewable supergrids had their moment in the sun – sadly, more metaphorically than literally – in the early 2000s, when Desertec fever was at its height. The notion of a network of long-distance, high-voltage lines ferrying renewable electricity far and wide – from...

Climate Mitigation Rocks

There exists a fascinating, if admittedly niche, strand of scientific enquiry that attempts to answer the counterfactual question: what would the surface of the Earth look like if life – plants, animals, humans – did not exist? Would weathering and erosion rates be...