A revival of the 1970s environmental thriller series Doomwatch could be in the works, weirdandbeard has learned.

Pesticides have been used by humankind for thousands of years to protect crops but now, deep in the heart of Africa, a storm is finally brewing over the misuse of one modern insecticide which may at last be getting the kind of media attention DDT received before it was largely banned in the 1960s.

 

Britain got through a shocking 9.9 billion plastic carrier bags last year - enough to fill 188 Olympic swimming pools, and if laid end to end they would reach to the moon and back seven times.

Wannabe celeb Dan Power has released the World's first ever 'anti-eco' single: 'Energy Wasting Day'. In his debut music video, Dan, a self-confessed carbon junkie and Jeremy Clarkson fan, is seen cavorting with a group of girls pole dancing around patio heaters, riding a gas guzzling motorbike and advocating all kinds of ways to needlessly waste energy.

 

This is a fun new gadegt: an ingenious H2O multi-function clock saves the world and gets you out of bed!

You just have to add water to get the H2O multi-function clock going: an electrochemical reaction between the electrodes and water produces electrical energy.