Global warming is going to get worse as weather patterns like El Niño and the North Atlantic Oscillation come into sync. Robert Matthews looks at the cataclysmic changes caused by cyclical weather systems.
Space, food and fuel are finite and, as the world’s population increases, so will the demand on them. Ian Taylor looks at the outcomes of this growing problem, and how to solve it.
Climate change predictions are based on computer models that are only able to vaguely reproduce Earth’s complex weather systems. Robert Matthews asks whether that’s enough to bet our future on
Planet Earth is running dry. As freshwater supplies come under increasing pressure from drought, agriculture and a booming, thirsty population, Ian Taylor asks what the future holds for H2O
This month:
Mars 2210
Science fiction author extraordinaire Stephen Baxter reckons we could have colonised the red planet in a few centuries time. We look at: Mining the Moon
Warp drive
Meeting the alien neighbours