How trading CO2 could save the climate
Getty Images A global carbon market would have potential to significantly lower the world’s carbon emissions, proponents say (Credit: Getty Images) For its proponents, a global carbon market could significantly reduce the world’s carbon emissions. But its critics say that giving polluters the option to pay for their emissions is not the answer to climate […]
Boston Dynamics boss learned by unbalancing toddler
Reuters Boston Dynamics’s quadruped robot, Spot, can be leased at the same cost as a luxury car The boss of robotics company Boston Dynamics has confessed he once nudged his one-year-old daughter over to work out how people balance. A YouTube video of Marc Raibert’s humanoid robot Atlas remaining upright while being poked with hockey […]
The far-reaching benefits of tiger sharks for climate
Getty Images Tiger sharks have far-reaching impacts on their ecosystems, and can help fight climate change by protecting their habitats (Credit: Getty Images) Worldwide, shark populations are on the decline. Boosting their numbers could have a cascade effect to help sink carbon and make the oceans more resilient to climate change. On the westernmost tip […]
The Christmas TV highlights to look out for
Netflix Fans are waiting to find out whether the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game can live up to the first The out-of-office is on, the mulled wine is mulling, and the highlighter pen is out as families look ahead to the best of this year’s Christmas TV. Four names in particular have been dominating […]
Why climate change is inherently racist
Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty When racism becomes structural, it can operate without obvious intent (Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty) Climate change divides along racial lines. Could tackling it help address longstanding injustices? When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, it was the city’s black neighbourhoods that bore the brunt of the storm. Twelve years later, it was the […]
Bottle oven survey fires up
Getty Images All 50 of the city’s remaining bottle ovens are being surveyed Surveys involving lasers and other tech are being undertaken on Stoke-on-Trent’s historic bottle ovens. The structures, named for their shape, operated from the late 17th century until the mid-20th century and were used to fire pottery and also in the decorating process. […]
Live updates: Matt Gaetz ethics report says he paid for sex and drugs while in office
Gaetz faces allegations of “illicit drug use”published at 14:41 Greenwich Mean Time 14:41 GMT Image source, Reuters Former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz also faces the allegation that he used and purchased illegal drugs – including from his Capitol Hill office, according to the final draft of 37-page report which CBS News, the BBC’s news US […]
Mims Davies on UK employment and jobless figures
The government has a plan for “protecting, creating and securing new jobs” Employment Minister Mims Davies has said. She described the digital, green technology and construction sectors as “growing and thriving” but said there were other sectors “that will take longer to come back”. As the unemployment rate rose to its highest level for two […]
Nuclear power: on the way back?
(Thinkstock) Our pick of the week from around the web, including the rise of power stations, hating Silicon Valley and how the Romans invented Facebook. El Bulli for all John Lanchester | London Review Of Books | 13 November 2013 Lanchester samples Ferran Adria’s free online Harvard course, Science & Cooking, and pronounces it excellent. […]
Ipswich slipper swap shop event aims to prevent tumbles
George King/BBC Community nurses helped at the Slipper Swap event at Burlington Baptist Church, in Ipswich Slipper lovers have traded in their tatty old footwear for brand new pairs designed to help prevent them taking a tumble. The Slipper Swap was held at Burlington Baptist Church, Ipswich, for people aged 65 and over whose worn-out […]