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Attitudes to water are urinous and wrong-headed: revered and polluted simultaneously. Yet water has wide cultural significance, is central to the Abrahamic faiths and is endlessly referred to in ancient [...]

Mark Lynas articulates the challenge with pinpoint accuracy (Columns, 18 August): it is time to put a stop to the idea that coal can power Britain. But he is way [...]

Mark Lynas's assessment of the Chancellor's Budget (Columns, 24 March) is spot-on: Alistair Darling avoided action on the really big green issues, to his and the government's discredit. Though it [...]

The growing responsibility of local authorities in the United Kingdom to maintain parks, recreational landscapes, etc. to ensure environmental protection is discussed.

Grinning weather forecasters happily tell us that 'there is only a small chance of rain,' despite knowing that the possibility of no rain is much greater. What are they playing [...]

Lord Puttnam's suggestion that the Olympics are capable of prompting the 'flowering of humanity' ('Why the Olympics inspire us', 24 May) is romantic, to say the least. He overlooks how [...]

Peter Wilby's analysis of the water supply industry (First Thoughts, z6 March) is a little wide of the mark. Water was privatised because the publicly owned utilities were starved of [...]

Laurie Penny observes that 'going home is not an option' for the protesters ('The last days of Occupy', 30 January). Some tried to present the Occupy protests as a whizz [...]

The only surprising thing about the riots was that so many people--including politicians and the police--were surprised by them (Leader, 15 August). Kettle society's poorest into crumbling estates; ply them [...]

Mark Lynas has returned to the NS with a stout defence of nuclear power, which, he argues, will ensure the 'survival of civilisation' ('Panic stations', 21 March). But, in promoting [...]

Stefan Szymanski is right to highlight the parallels between football and banking ('For HBOS read Manchester United', 15 March). Both are examples of a twisted form of capitalism; both have [...]

Peak oil (Mark Lynas, Global Warning, 16 November)? No, not this century. The proven reserves (defined as the amount of known oil that can be recovered economically) of 1.3 trillion [...]

Sir: One reason why we continue to live in an unsustainable way is that not enough people accept the reality and implications of climate change ('The great climate change con [...]

Andrew Grice articulates Brown's dilemma with pinpoint accuracy ('After the massacre', 8 June). But whoever leads Labour into the next election must introduce policies that include major investment in a [...]

David Nicholson-Lord and Jonathon Porritt (Special report, 9 March) make a compelling case for why greens should speak with one voice on the big issues of our time: population, lifestyle [...]

Sir: The government may have backed big business and its lopsided economic case for a third runway and new terminal at Heathrow airport, but New Labour is still in thrall [...]

Noreena Hertz assesses the current mood with pinpoint accuracy ('The death of Gucci capitalism', 27 October). The financial meltdown may yet see off the very worst of 'me, me' free-for-all [...]

Football's star owners and star players should be reminded that the sport grew out of a need to improve the health of the poor and build community identity (Hunter Davies, [...]

So, now we know--environmental policy has been handed over to the surrealists ('Food crisis: how the rich starved the world', 21 April). From now on, as a result of a [...]

Mark Lynas is right (Columns, 7 January) to point out that arguments about climate change are settled and that in Bali, for the first time, the agenda for UN climate […]

Mark Lynas ('The most important protest of our time', 20 August) is right to stress the significance of the action at Heathrow Airport. But, as long as members of the […]

From Nick Reeves Sir: It's high time that governments weaned themselves off the myth, put about by certain economists, that a large population is good and that a declining population [...]

Jonathan Leake ('How the greens were choked to death', 25 April) told only half the story. As he says, environmentalists have been captured by the government, but they have also [...]

From Nick Reeves Sir: Rod Liddle is both right and wrong ('Let's go nuclear', 21 August). It is true that our voracious and unsustainable consumption of hydrocarbons has caused immeasurable […]

From The Rt Hon. John Prescott, MP Sir: Rod Liddle ('More destructive than the Luftwaffe', 3 April) told only part of the story on housing in this case. More than […]

Introduction:Propylene glycol (PG) is a common solvent used in medical preparations. It is generally recognized as safe at regulated concentrations; however, its apoptotic potential is unknown.Results:PG triggered widespread apoptotic neurodegeneration with the greatest damage at postnatal day 7 (P7). Significant apoptosis was observed at doses as low as 2 ml/kg. These findings have implications for the safety of drug preparations used in pediatric medicine. The anticonvulsant phenobarbital (PB), which alone produces apoptosis in the immature central nervous system (CNS) is prepared in 68% PG and 10% ethanol (EtOH). We assessed whether PG contributes to the neurotoxic potential of PB. The agents (both at subtoxic doses) produce significantly more apoptosis when used in combination.Discussion:In conclusion, finding an alternative non-apoptotic solvent that can be used as a substitute for PG may be beneficial to patients.Methods:C57BL/6 mice (P4–30) were exposed to PG to examine whether PG could produce apoptosis in the developing CNS.