Dry cracked earth is visible along the banks of Phoenix Lake on April 21, 2021 in Ross, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images LONDON — Major companies from across a range of sectors are increasingly concerned about the cost and availability of the world’s ultimate renewable resource: water. The availability and relatively low cost of
Month: June 2021
Two big festivals have announced they will be going ahead this summer. Tramlines Festival, in Sheffield, will run as part of the government’s pilot events programme from 23-25 July, with acts including The Streets, Royal Blood and Richard Ashcroft set to play to a full capacity of 40,000 fans. Standon Calling, in Hertfordshire, is not
The government’s efforts to help school pupils catch up from lost learning during the COVID pandemic are “feeble” when compared to other countries, a former adviser has said. Sir Kevan Collins, who recently quit as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s catch-up tsar amid a row over funding, told MPs on Tuesday that the “biggest impact” of
Elvis Costello has defended teenage star Olivia Rodrigo over an accusation that she copied one of his songs. Brutal, a track on Rodrigo’s chart-topping album Sour, sounds similar to a riff that featured in Costello’s 1978 track Pump It Up. Veteran singer-songwriter Costello stepped in to defend the young star after a Twitter user described
Originally published on RMI.org.By Christian Roselund People pay a lot of attention when the power goes out, but we tend to not notice when the grid remains stable — even under trying conditions. On June 17 and 18, record heat in California led the state’s grid operator to call on residents to reduce electricity usage through issuing
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Senior overseas business executives will no longer need to quarantine when arriving in England if their trip is likely to be of “significant economic benefit to the UK”. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said that, subject to business leaders meeting strict criteria, they could “temporarily” leave mandatory COVID-19 isolation for work
More than 20 million Australians – about 80% of the population – are now under some form of lockdown or COVID-related restrictions as officials tighten rules on movement and push for vaccinations to contain outbreaks of the highly infectious Delta variant. Australia has so far been relatively more successful than many other developed countries in
When a city known for cool drizzle in “June-uary” is as hot as the Middle East it’s clear something unusual is happening. The average June high in Seattle is 21.1C (70F), but on Monday the northwestern city hit 42C (108F). It was the second day in a row of record temperatures, after the 40C (104F)
NASA recently shared a stunning image of interacting galaxy pair IC 1623 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on its Instagram handle. The galaxy pair is located about 275 million light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). The space agency titled the image, “Caught in a cosmic bad romance”, and added
Ministers are set to decide on whether to scrap self-isolation for school pupils in England if one of their classmates tests positive for coronavirus. The government has recently trialled daily contact testing for children as an alternative to an entire school “bubble” – made up of their class or even whole year group – having
Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line Internet in favour of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Starlink, which cost him CAD 600 (roughly Rs. 36,000) for hardware and a lofty CAD 150 (roughly Rs. 9,000) monthly subscription, provides
Deposit affordability is facing a squeeze as the annual rate of house price growth hit its highest level since November 2004, according to a report. Nationwide’s monthly market study pointed to a 13.4% surge in the average cost of a home over the 12 months to June – partly a result of a low base
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree to send soldiers to the Amazon in an effort to curb surging deforestation. The decree, published in the country’s official gazette, said soldiers would go to the states of Para, Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Rondonia for two months until the end of August. It did not provide
An artist rendering of Oklo’s Aurora powerhouse Image credit: Gensler The face of nuclear energy is changing, and one of the companies working to redefine what nuclear energy looks like is Oklo. The 22-person Silicon Valley start-up has a plan build mini nuclear reactors, powered from the waste of conventional nuclear reactors and housed in
The exterior of The Spheres are seen at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters on May 20, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images Amazon is turning part of its Seattle headquarters into a public cooling center as the Pacific Northwest grapples with a record-breaking heat wave. The air-conditioned cooling center is set up at
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