London air pollution danger to life among all age groups EUROPE | UK | LONDON | ENVIRONMENT | HEALTH AND WELLBEING FACT BOX: In London, 9’400 premature deaths are attributed to poor air quality and a cost of between £1.4 and £3.7 billion a year to the health service. (Fact…
Spain | La Palma Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption 2021 Environment | Natural Disaster | Spain | Volcanos FACT BOX: La Palma is one of 8 main islands that make up the Spanish Canary Islands, off the North West coast of Africa (100km/62 miles off the coast of Morocco). The Canaries…
UAE ‘Cloud Seeding Drones’ successfully form clouds and create rain as manmade weather Technology | Cyber | Environment | Climate Change | Middle East | |UAE | Dubai FACT BOX: Geoengineering tech – controlling earth’s climate using manmade technologies – is a concept countries around the world have long dreamt of conquering. In what on any other…
Germany launches military ‘space command’ to tackle Russia and China SPACE | MILITARY | EU | GERMANY FACT BOX: ‘The Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space’ is a 1981 UN resolution that reaffirms the fundamental principles of the 1967 ‘Outer Space Treaty’ and bans the weaponisation of space. The USA…
India – Cyclone Tauktae – Storm sends back rubbish dumped at sea Nature | India | Cyclone Tauktae Nature is fighting back! As Cyclone Tauktae brushes past the coast of Oman and slams into several Indian coastal states, nature has a surprise delivery – rubbish, garbage, trash, human created waste…
Latest studies into Tree communications discover community formation and resource sharing Environment | Scientific Research | Tree Communication | Climate Change There has been now, since the turn of the 21st century a growing and widely accepted recognition of how trees communicate with each other. This discovery over the last…
Wild horses and donkeys are digging wells, providing a source of water for wildlife USA| Wild horses and donkeys have surprises scientists by digging wells in the desert for water, providing a vital life line to wildlife and boosting ecosystems. When you think of a well, naturally you think of…
NGO Global Witness has published a report showing that 2019 had a record number of environmental protesters and activists killed world wide Record number of environmental protesters and activists killed say Global Witness According to a new report from NGO Global Witness, 212 environmental activists and protesters were killed during…
UN mourns the death of Sultan Qaboos إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al-Said 18/11/1940 – 10/01/2020 Yesterday, the General Assembly of the United Nations observed a minute of silence, standing in mourning for the death of His Majesty, the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said bin…
Priti Patel backs police decision to declare Extinction Rebellion a Terror Group UK Home Secretary – Priti Patel backs police decision to declare Extinction Rebellion members Terrorists Priti Patel, the UK’s Home Secretary, has supported a decision by anti-terror police to include the extreme environmental group Extinction Rebellion (XR) on a list of extremist terror…
