Archive for the ‘Environmental math’ Category

There were solar powered engines long before oil-based ones. Here's a story about French mathematics teacher Augustin Mouchot, who invented one.

The 17-year cicada is due to emerge in north-eastern parts of USA in Spring 2013.

There will soon be 7 billion of us. How can the world sustain population growth on this scale? Do you know how many people there are in the world right now?

Today is World Food Day. Here's how one country plans to improve its precarious food situation.

Visual.ly is a neat new data visualization tool. Worth a look, but it has some downsides.

There's only one realistic solution for climate change.

How do they predict the spread of viruses like the H1N1?

Here's a "real-world" math program that gives students a reason for learning algebra — the future of our planet.

Here's some math about something we use every day - a piece of paper.

Plastic water bottles are a disaster for the environment — and your wallet.