Environment
Weird creature that wriggled across ocean beds 430 million years ago dug up in Britain
It is so bizarre it has been named Sollasina cthulhu after horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's most famous beast - the inspiration behind the 'Alien' movies
Wire sculptures higlight plight of young homeless people
Sean Hayman, 24, puts the finishing touches to wire sculptures by the Lisbon-based artist David Oliveira, which go on display in Glasgow Central Station, Scotland, as part the #NOWYOUSEEME which aims to highlight the plight of young homeless people which are unable to find homes. April 9, 2019.
Arctic warming is causing more severe storms and cold snaps for Britain
The North Pole is warming faster than anywhere else and is changing ocean currents bringing with it more unsettled and colder temperatures to northwestern Europe.
Litter-pickers team up with scientists to create plastic pollution ‘gold standard’
They pilot-tested the technique by researchers from the University of Birmingham at dozens of sites across the English Channel
Renewables ‘better investment than carbon capture for tackling climate change’
International climate change models - such as in the Paris Agreement - are based on installing carbon capture at coal and natural gas power stations
RSPB hit out at local council for netting up a cliff stopping birds from nesting
North Norfolk District Council has put a large net across a cliff side, preventing sand martins from entering their nests and endangering their lives
Most glaciers in The Alps ‘could be wiped out by 2100’
Researchers forecast that more than 90 per cent of glacier volume in the Alps could be lost by the year 2100 due to global warming
Climate change could cause as much damage as when dinosaurs were wiped out by asteroid
Man's destruction of planet means life on Earth could take equally as long to recover as it did after the "Great Dying" more than 60 million years ago
Three ingenious ways to solve the UK’s disposable coffee cup problem
Last week the BBC reported that an independent coffee chain has seen sales fall by £250,000 since it banned single use coffee cups. The UK throws away a staggering 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups each year. Only a tiny proportion are recycled and half a million a day become litter. The problem is clear, but what’s to be done?Cambridge Consultants has been working on solutions. Here are three proposals:COFFEE CUP AS A SERVICEReusable cups are great, but we often forget them, and cleaning them...