The drones looking inside explosively intensifying hurricanes
Saildrone Sail drones are studying why and how hurricanes intensify to help improve hurricane forecasting (Credit: Saildrone) Some tropical storms rapidly transform into a category…
How to solve the plastic packaging paradox
Getty Images Today, plastic packaging has a bad (w)rap. But the first commercially viable version of the now ubiquitous material – cellophane – was conceived…
The marvel of China’s multi-generational rice terraces
Chaiyun Damkaew/Getty Images (Credit: Chaiyun Damkaew/Getty Images) Hacked from mountains in south-western China, the sprawling Honghe Hani Rice Terraces stack up over more than 160sq…
Guernsey schools roll out ‘state-of-the-art’ IT systems
States-run schools in Guernsey are to have “state-of-the-art” new IT systems this month, after the Education Department started the roll-out of its digital roadmap. The…
12 of the best films to watch this December
Searchlight Pictures From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are the films to stream and…
How Paris’s cathedral was restored after fire
Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron has toured Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral live on TV, giving the public a first look inside the building since much of…
UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal
EPA The UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will…
No new Covid rules ‘today or tomorrow’
Reuters The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures…
Suffolk BME Business Awards celebrate ‘excellence and diversity’
Jon Wright/BBC Clem Turner, Veronica Akrofi, Beverley Uter, Lydia Forrester and Angelina Quamina MBE, from the Caribbean and African Community Health Support Forum, said the…
Environment prize goes to Flint water activist
Goldman Prize Lead levels in Ms Walters’ home were found to be seven times acceptable limits The founder of a citizens’ movement that helped expose…