Eco-friendly tech comes with its own environmental costs: that’s why it’s vital to cut energy demand now: Mining and extracting metals has ecologically damaging consequences. Shutterstock If we want to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 or even 2?, we’ll need a monumental shift in how our energy and transport systems work. The International Energy …
Inflation: there’s a vital way to reduce it that everyone overlooks – raise productivity: Inflation has become one of the great issues of our times. The UK’s is the highest in the G7, weighing in at 9% a year according to the most recent figures on consumer price inflation. When you look at the other …
Street traders in South Africa play a vital role: how their rights can be protected: Street traders continue to be harassed by municipal officials. GettyImages The South African informal economy accounts for 17% of employment. Street trading is the largest. Street traders are scattered around the many corners of the country’s towns and cities. They …
The South African ship that found Antarctica’s Endurance wreck is vital for climate science: The SA Agulhas amid the ice of Antarctica. © Raquel Flynn It was 1914 when the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard a ship called Endurance. It was an ill-fated journey: the ship got …
Ukraine war: death of a ‘fixer’ underlines the dangers of this unsung but vital job for journalism: Oleksandra Kushynova died on March 14 in the village of Horenka north of Kyiv when the vehicle in which she was travelling was hit by incoming fire killing her and Irish cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, as well as wounding …
The coronavirus in Nigeria has its own family history: keeping track is vital: Inequality in coronavirus genomic surveillance delays the detection of globally significant variants of concern. Camilo Freedman/ picture alliance via Getty Images Nigeria recorded its first case of SARS-CoV-2 on 27 February 2020, and within five months at least one case had been …
UK net zero strategies are overlooking something vital: how to cool buildings amid rising temperatures: The UK's need for building cooling is set to grow significantly. Terimakasih0/Pixabay In October, the UK government released two different strategies on how to achieve its net zero emissions target by 2050 – the net zero strategy and the heat …
Congo Basin’s vital clues to HIV’s behaviour: how we’re trying to crack its complex code: HIV prevalence in the Congo Basin is relatively low. Yannick Tylle/ GettyImages There have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a public health threat. The aim was that, by 2020, 90% of …
China’s wildlife food ban is vital for public health and threatened species – our research reveals what must happen next: Amnat30/Shutterstock World leaders are attending an online summit to discuss the future of life on Earth. With one million species threatened with extinction this century, the UN biodiversity conference, known as COP15, is supposed to …
Investing in sport is still good business for big companies (and vital for fans too): Shutterstock/winui The pandemic has placed enormous pressure on sport. Major competitions and events have taken place without supporters and fans, and vital sponsorship budgets have been drastically cut. According to one report the value of sponsorship across all sports went …
South Africa in the news: T20 WC of vital importance to Proteas & SA: Bavuma: South African skipper Temba Bavuma has said that the upcoming 2021 men’s T20 World Cup serves as a tournament of vital importance for his team and country. South Africa have never made it past the …: “South Africa” – BingNews …
South Africa in the news: T20 World Cup of vital importance to Proteas and South Africa: Bavuma: South African skipper Temba Bavuma has said that the upcoming 2021 men’s T20 World Cup serves as a tournament of vital importance for his team and country. South Africa have never made it past the …: “South Africa” …
Digital health is a vital tool: here’s how we can make it more sustainable: The pandemic has shown us the extraordinary potential of digital health to fight global health inequalities by providing expanded access to healthcare: as well as by better informing our responses to health crises. Tools such as wearable monitoring devices, video consultations, …
Why eye-catching graphics are vital for getting to grips with climate change: Heat Gradient graphic from Atlas of the Invisible Author provided Like many people, the first graph I ever saw explaining climate change was in a school geography textbook. It showed the “hockey stick” curve of the Earth’s surface temperature over time, which has …
Why it is vital to decriminalise abortion: the case of Malta: If accessing abortion in countries where it’s criminalised wasn’t hard enough before the pandemic, lockdowns and COVID-19 travel restrictions have made the process that much more difficult. In fact, the issue became so pronounced at the start of the pandemic that the European parliament …
South Africa in the news: Rohit-Boult duel vital in World Test Championship final: How Sharma negotiates the swing of Trent and how well he’s able to counter the other NZ quicks would also be one of the determining factors in the decider …: “South Africa” – BingNews Cheap Flights from New Delhi to Sun City …
South Africa in the news: Could the Indian variant derail our exit plan? Your vital questions answered on new Covid mutant: What’s going on? Cases of a coronavirus variant first detected in India are rising in the UK, potentially threatening the lockdown-easing roadmap.: “South Africa” – BingNews Scots seek revenge in November rugby test against …
Net zero: despite the greenwash, it’s vital for tackling climate change: It might seem odd to find supporters of climate action debating the merits of a concept that science shows to be essential for halting climate change, and which is accordingly embedded at the heart of the defining global agreement. Yet that is where we …