Name: Horseflies.Age: Quite old.Appearance: Small, dark, sworn enemy of patterns.Ah, I love patterns. Me too. From your statement, I can deduce that you are not a horsefly.Why? Well, partly because you are typing half a…
In a secret location in an industrial area in western Sydney, a test strip of asphalt is being laid.But this is no ordinary road.The 50-metre strip stretching out into the hot afternoon sun is held…
It’s often been said that we’re living through an unprecedented moment. But in city centres, the coronavirus crisis has merely accelerated trends that have been unfolding for some time. In Leeds, where I live, many…
Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing an oil spill in one of the world’s most pristine maritime environments.“We have arrested the captain of the…
In a rare acknowledgement of defeat, Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination of a highly controversial figure for a top environment post.William Perry Pendley is a conservative attorney and longtime opponent of public lands and…
The Trump administration is taking the final steps to let oil and gas companies drill in the Arctic national wildlife refuge – which environment advocates call the nation’s “last great wilderness”.The US interior department will…
On a recent visit to see the Cubbington pear tree, Anne Langley was sad to see that the woods around it in Warwickshire had been blocked off to visitors and a sign erected warning against…
Nick Hayes is right that we should not be barred from so much of the countryside of England (“Forgive us our trespasses”, the New Review). But not everyone can trespass as energetically as he does,…
According to TV industry media, the fast fashion brand Missguided turned down more than 500 requests from TV production companies before agreeing to allow Pulse Films into its head office in Manchester last year. The…
Thousands of years of English coalmining will near an end this week with the closure of one of the country’s last remaining coalmines in Bradley near Durham.The owner of the surface mine, the Banks Group,…
At key moments in history, courts around the world have helped to accelerate social change – they have vindicated the demands of people fighting to end slavery, racial segregation and gender inequality. It should therefore…
International experts and thousands of local volunteers were making frantic efforts on Sunday to protect Mauritius’s pristine beaches and rich marine wildlife after hundreds of tonnes of oil was dumped into the sea by a…
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