Quoted: A garbage patch in the Pacific is one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered in the world’s oceans.

Quoted: This illustration—showing the diversity of mechanical species in the rain forest—manages to make all these metal animals beautiful. Too bad that these terrible beasts spend their lives feeding on trees, and destroying everything in their paths. [Thanks David]

Quoted: The confluence of factory farming, the boom in fast food and manipulation of consumer taste created processed foods that can hook us like drugs.

tricky things

Quoted: The contentious Weston barrage would be the largest renewable energy project in Europe but comes with a huge ecological cost

yeah

Quoted: oil on this planet. And as the end days of oil approach us, get ready for some very desperate people willing to kill and be ...

Quoted: We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.

Quoted: Findings show that turning biomass into electricity is more beneficial than turning it into transportation fuels.

Quoted: A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic.