Body mass index: why practitioners are relying on it less when looking at a patient’s health: BMI has many limitations. Rawpixel.com/ Shutterstock Body mass index has long been used by doctors as the standard method for measuring health – and often still is. But earlier this month, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new …
Countries are relying on forests and soil to absorb their remaining carbon – it’s a risky way to reach net zero: Countries are betting on forests and soils to mop up their remaining “difficult-to-decarbonise” emissions to achieve their climate targets. More forests and better soils are good for nature and for adapting to climate change, …
Relying on carbon capture and storage may be a dangerous trap for UK industry: Technologies which can capture carbon from power station chimneys or even directly from the air are being developed. kamilpetran/Shutterstock We are reminded of climate change all the time. Every week seemingly brings a “once in a hundred year” disaster or new …
BECCS: the carbon capture technology the UK is relying on to reach net zero: Drax power station, North Yorkshire John Morrison / Alamy Stock Photo The UK government is counting on the carbon capture technologies that bioenergy power plants are trialling to meet its climate change goals. Last week the UK’s largest renewable energy power …
Relying on carbon capture to solve the climate crisis risks pushing our problems into the next generation’s path: Models suggest that CCS tech alone won't be enough to avert climate disaster. Marcin Jozwiak/Pixabay As the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear makes clear, the 2020s must be a …
Africa looks likely to continue relying on power from fossil fuels for some time: Gas and oil power plants have historically had better success chances than most renewable energy projects. Provided by author via pixabay The narratives of “leapfrogging” to new technologies are pervasive when it comes to development in Africa. One example is skipping …
Green bailouts: relying on carbon offsetting will let polluting airlines off the hook: Dan Meyers/Unsplash, CC BY-SA The coronavirus pandemic has grounded thousands of aircraft, contributing to the largest-ever annual fall in CO? emissions. At some point though, the planes will soar again and with them, global emissions. Most airlines in the UK have committed …
Universities must stop relying on software to deal with plagiarism: Often students plagiarise because they don't understand how to write in an academic setting. Contimis Works/Shutterstock Educational software – whether it’s a teaching aid or a program designed to help teachers with administration – is big business. The recent multi-billion dollar acquisition of Turnitin, a …
3 industries relying on Apache Kafka: Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system designed to be fast, scalable, and durable. It provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds and has a storage layer that is essentially a massively scalable pub/sub message queue architected as a distributed transaction log. That architecture …