A car-free future? How UK cities are moving towards a pedestrian age
With York announcing plans to ban private vehicles from its centre, Colin Drury asks: is it a blueprint for a better urban life?
26/01/2020 The Independent
Despite the ongoing pandemic good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
With York announcing plans to ban private vehicles from its centre, Colin Drury asks: is it a blueprint for a better urban life?
26/01/2020 The Independent
Researchers from across the continent are collaborating on an open source AI project to develop machine translation for African languages – facilitating communication, increasing accessibility and opening doors to the world’s youngest continent to…
06/02/2020 Reset.org
An updated review shows it performs better than other common treatments and is less expensive.
11/03/2020 New York Times
A bacterium that feeds on toxic plastic has been discovered by scientists. The bug not only breaks the plastic down but uses it as food to power the process.
27/03/2020 The Guardian
The residents of a remote village on the Japanese island of Shikoku have spent almost two decades reusing, recycling and reducing, united behind a mission to end their dependence on incinerators and landfill as the world struggles to tackle the…
20/03/2020 The Guardian
The glory of the world’s oceans could be restored within a generation, according to a major new scientific review. It reports rebounding sea life, from humpback whales off Australia to elephant seals in the US and green turtles in Japan.
01/04/2020 The Guardian
Campaigners are not letting restrictions hold them back in fighting for what they believe in.
20/05/2020 BBC
Whether you are concerned about your health, the environment or animal welfare, scientific evidence is piling up that meat-free diets are best. Millions of people in wealthy nations are already cutting back on animal products.
19/06/2020 The Guardian
The United Arab Emirates successfully launched its Mars-bound Hope Probe on Sunday, marking the the Arab world's first interplanetary mission -- and the first of three international missions to the Red Planet this summer.
20/07/2020 CNN
Special programme aims to inspire female workers to become leaders and boost women's rights across industries.
01/08/2020 Al Jazeera
Nobody will ever know the identity of the thousands of African children who were not killed or paralyzed by polio this year. They would have been hard to keep track of no matter what because in ordinary times, they would have followed thousands last…
25/08/2020 Time Magazine
Tobacco plants have been modified with a protein found in algae to improve their photosynthesis and increase growth, while using less water, in a new advance that could point the way to higher yielding crops in a drought-afflicted future.
10/08/2020 The Guardian
Chuck Feeney has achieved his lifetime ambition: giving away his $8bn (£6bn) fortune while he is still around to see the impact it has made.
19/09/2020 The Guardian
‘Huge shift away from established norms’ will support green recovery and net-zero ambitions, Scottish government says
29/10/2020 The Independent
We're on the cusp of being able to program biological systems like we program computers. That raises some thorny questions.
04/11/2020 Wired
Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide, especially Black people
05/12/2020 The Independent