Former prime minister is latest senior politician to speak out against deal as Ofcom inquirycontinues. Sir John Major has said it is not a “good idea” for the United Arab Emirates-backed takeover of The Telegraph to go ahead. The former prime minister said he did not want newspapers to fall into “autocratic or semi-autocratic hands”....
The emptying of supermarket shelves during the COVID pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK’s food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the future? And what might the impact on society be? These are the questions we sought to answer in our new study, which involved surveying 58 leading...
limate change kills. Since 2000, nearly four million people worldwide have lost their lives due to floods, wildfires, heat waves, droughts, and other extreme weather events that have been linked to a steadily warming planet, according to a recent estimate in the journal Nature. That sweeping number can make it hard for any of us to grasp how...
Background In Zimbabwe, anthrax is endemic with outbreaks being reported almost annually in livestock, wildlife, and humans over the past 40 years. Accurate modelling of its spatial distribution is key in formulating effective control strategies. In this study, an Ensemble Species Distribution Model was used to model the current and future distribution of anthrax occurrence in...
During a remote meeting, Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal National Council (FNC), and Grigory Karasin, Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, discussed ways of enhancing the...
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost. In the 165 years since the first American oil well struck black gold, the industry has punched...
U.N. delegates on Thursday withdrew a motion calling for more research into technologies that aim to fight climate change by reflecting the sun’s rays back into space, amid concerns about health and environmental risks. Some who opposed the draft resolution at the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) were also worried that the use of solar radiation modification (SRM)...
African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming is not limited to below 2°C, a new study by the Center for Global Development has found. Environment and energy economist Philip Kofi Adom is the author of the report. He synchronised many years of research by climate change scientists and researchers and found that...
New research takes stock of the impact of passenger flights and, for the first time, air freight at 1,300 airports around the world. New research has revealed the climate and air quality impacts of the world’s worst polluting airports. The 2024 Airport Tracker, produced by think tank ODI in partnership with Transport & Environment, measures...
Global warming increased competition for food in the 2010s, leading to decreased fish weight in important fishing area. Fish weight in the western North Pacific Ocean dipped in the 2010s due to warmer water limiting food supplies, according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Researchers analyzed the individual weight and overall biomass...