Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: Change, slow but significant, is evident along the path that zigzags across a windless…
Month: January 2021
Green shoots: Spanish firm tackles plastic waste from shotgun cartridges
BioAmmo aims to make 50m of its plastic-free, biodegradable cartridges this year One day a little…
‘I almost cracked’: 16-month artistic performance of mass extinction comes to a close
Since 2019, Lucienne Rickard has been drawing detailed sketches of lost species in a Hobart gallery.…
Bipartisan group of senators pushes back on Biden Covid plan
A bipartisan group of senators told White House officials on Sunday that the stimulus spending in…
Helping poorest tackle climate crisis will boost global growth, says IMF head
Kristalina Georgieva says investing to create resilient economies is a ‘win-win-win-win’ scenario Helping the most vulnerable…
Bernie Sanders happy to have gone viral
The Vermont senator, right, is raising money for charity off the viral image of him sitting…
Permanent PJs and pivoting designers: how the pandemic hit the fashion world
I was on the Eurostar, somewhere between St Pancras and Paris, when a senior member of…
Swathes of England’s vital flood defences ‘almost useless’
Thousands of England’s vital flood defences were in such a state of ruin last year they…
Dick Durbin calls absolute protection of Senate filibuster ‘a non-starter’
Sen. Dick Durbin said giving in to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s demand of absolute protection for…
Bernie Sanders: Dems will use reconciliation to pass Covid relief ‘as soon as we possibly can’
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Democrats would pass a Covid-19 relief bill using budget reconciliation, which…