The ‘carbon-negative’ foods that help reverse climate change
Getty Images Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere, leaving the climate in a better place. We all know that producing most foods creates greenhouse gas emissions, driving climate change. These emissions come from hundreds of different sources, including tractors burning fuel, manufacturing fertiliser and the bacteria in […]
Court strikes down US net neutrality rules
Getty Images A US court has rejected the Biden administration’s bid to restore “net neutrality” rules, finding that the federal government does not have the authority to regulate internet providers like utilities. It marks a major defeat for so-called open internet advocates, who have long fought for protections that would require internet providers such as […]
New Orleans victims’ families seek answers in deadly New Years attack
New Orleans victim’s brother says family will have to deal with his death ‘every day’ Just hours before the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Jack Bech got on a phone call with his older brother Martin – an avid outdoorsman and former football star mostly known to friends and teammates as “Tiger”. Jack, […]
Officials suspend arrest of president Yoon Suk Yeol
South Korean investigators have called off an attempt to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol after a dramatic six-hour standoff with the security team outside his home. “We’ve determined that the arrest is practically impossible,” said the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which has been investigating Yoon’s short-lived martial law declaration. “Next steps will be decided […]
To conserve or cull? Life in Australia’s crocodile capital
BBC Saltwater crocodiles were almost hunted to extinction in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT). Now they’re thriving It’s dawn on Darwin Harbour and government ranger Kelly Ewin – whose job is to catch and remove crocodiles – is balancing precariously on a floating trap. Heavy rain clouds from the storm that has recently passed are overhead. […]
Man in exploded Cybertruck was elite soldier and shot himself before blast
Watch: Las Vegas police say driver in Tesla Cybertruck explosion likely US soldier The man who drove a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas was an active-duty US special forces soldier and shot himself dead before the blast, officials have said. Las Vegas police have identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, […]
High drama in Seoul as investigators try to arrest South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol
What to know about Yoon Suk Yeolpublished at 23:51 Greenwich Mean Time 2 January 23:51 GMT 2 January Image source, Getty Images In 2022, Yoon Suk Yeol, then a political novice, won the presidential election by the narrowest margin South Korea’s democracy had ever seen. But he soon found himself mired in scandal. Much of […]
The tech turning thoughts into speech
Cognixion As the potential for surgically installed brain implants hots up, could a new type of non-invasive wearable technology, which turns thoughts into speech, be a more simple way to support people with communication challenges? Gus Alexiou finds out. Chris Benedict, 41, DJs at clubs and events across Santa Barbara, USA, under the name DJ […]
The mega trade deal that has French farmers in uproar
Lisa Louis French farmer Alix Heurtault worries that the trade deal could make it difficult for her to continue As the ink was drying on one of the world’s biggest trade deals, signed in Uruguay this month, and hailed as a milestone for the global economy, anger was brewing thousands of miles away in France. […]
The invention that inspired a New York tradition
Ramin Talaie/Getty Images The ball drop was originally created to help ships navigate the globe (Credit: Ramin Talaie/Getty Images) A British Royal Navy officer named Robert Wauchope is credited with creating the time ball, an ingenious Victorian-era contraption that inspired New York’s New Year’s Eve ball drop. When the final hours of the year arrive, […]