The legal battles changing the course of climate change
Getty Images The number of climate lawsuits globally has surged in recent years (Credit: Getty Images) Governments, fossil fuel firms and airlines are increasingly being met with climate lawsuits. Isabella Kaminski analyses what difference this legal action is making, and how much it is helping fight climate change. In 2013, a lawsuit of a kind […]
Can you make a living from environment-friendly crisps?
Farmers Mark Green and Sean Mason grow and sell potatoes and together have started a business venture making environmentally-friendly crisps. In 2014 the pair, from Herefordshire, decided over a pint to start working together and spent the next few years developing a crisps brand with sustainability running through its core. The crisps are packaged in […]
Getting patients home has become a ‘real challenge’
Gill Dummigan Health Correspondent, BBC North West BBC Staff at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool work with patients to try and prepare them for discharge BBC research has revealed that in some hospitals in the North West, fewer than one in 10 patients who could go home are able to leave. It is mainly because of […]
Palestinians and Arab states reject Trump’s Gaza takeover plan
The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to take over Gaza and permanently resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there. “We will not allow the rights of our people… to be infringed on,” Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was “an integral part of the State of […]
Companies feel burn from US lawmakers
Getty Images Executives from Juul, Reynolds American, NJOY and Fontem US lawmakers called for tougher rules for e-cigarette companies at a hearing on Wednesday as they blamed executives for introducing a new generation to nicotine. The US is looking to write new industry rules amid rising concern about vaping among teenagers. Congress recently raised the […]
‘Punjabi dance takes away our stress’
A dance group is celebrating success at an international competition. The Addi Tappa Giddha group in Derby teaches Giddha, a popular folk dance of women in the Punjab region. Two members of the group won Miss and Mrs Europe Punjaban at a competition in Denmark. Following the achievement, the group is now preparing for a […]
Gas price rises prompt urgent government talks
Malu Cursino & Alex Kleiderman BBC News Getty Images The government is holding urgent talks with representatives from the energy industry amid growing concern about a spike in wholesale gas prices. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is talking to suppliers to hear how wide-reaching the impact of surging prices could be on companies and households. High […]
M&S to cut 7,000 jobs over next three months
PA Marks & Spencer is cutting 7,000 jobs over the next three months across its stores and management. It said the coronavirus pandemic had made it clear there had been a “material shift in trade”. In-store sales of clothing and home goods were “well below” 2019, although online and home deliveries were strong. M&S said […]
Confessions of a call-centre scammer
Rajini Vaidyanathan BBC News, Delhi BBC This week, the BBC showed scammers at work in an Indian call centre, recorded by an activist who hacked into the company’s security cameras. Staff were seen laughing at their victims in the US and the UK. But who are these scammers, and how do they justify their actions? […]
The star chef of Santiago de Compostela
Sofia Perez Features correspondent Mero Afonso The Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie named chef Lucía Freitas the “Chef of the Future” (Credit: Mero Afonso) Now that the Galician chef has glimpsed an existence that is about more than just work, she won’t go back. “To be happy in the kitchen, you have to be happy […]