Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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A father has provoked controversy on social media by removing his son from his school after disagreeing with the climate change syllabus. Thirty-eight-year-old Matt Karlos, who hails from Australia, was reportedly incensed about the way in which his son Max was taught about the issue of global warming. Karlos believes…
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Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who galvanised a movement to fight climate change, is tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she was nominated for by three Norwegian MPs back in March. The environmental campaigner is reportedly the bookies' favourite to pick up the award next week, with…
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The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has produced its biggest iceberg in over 50 years. According to the BBC, the calved block, called D28, is 631 square miles, which is just smaller than the Isle of Skye. The incident is not believed to be related to climate change, and instead…
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The owners of Wonderful Co., Stewart and Lynda Resnick have announced a $750 million pledge to the California Institute of Technology. The Resnicks, who made the announcement on Thursday, have advised that the donation is to support environmental sustainability research, per Forbes. The Wonderful Company is the world's largest producer…
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A policy from Japan Airlines shows passengers the location of any children under two years old as they are making their booking. Though the move is nothing new, it has recently caused a disturbance in the Twittersphere, as customers argue about the pros and cons of the plan. Several commentators…
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has responded to the criticism she received in the wake of her viral speech at the UN summit. During the speech, she encouraged world leaders to tackle the global climate change emergency. "People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are…
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Everything in life is better with friends, everything apart from work - if new research is anything to go by. The unsurprising revelation was made by Dr. Sangyoon Park, assistant professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong. While the answer to this question is pretty obvious, he set…
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We are in a global climate change emergency. Annual ice loss is at an "unprecedented" rate, and this summer, the Amazon rainforest, often dubbed as the "Earth's lungs", has been ravaged by fire. Now, people all around the world are taking action in an attempt stop the crisis before it's…
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Greta Thunberg - the teenage climate activist from Sweden, who condemned world leaders for not taking enough action as far as tackling climate change is concerned - was earlier today named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award. The honour is an immense one, not least…
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There are few things more soul-destroying than a debilitating hangover. Head throbbing and throat drier than the Sahara Desert, sometimes hangovers can be so horrendously all-consuming it feels like they'll never end. When the inside of your skull feels like it's being battered with a thousand tiny hammers, the last…
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A young climate change activist has vowed not to have children until governments take serious action to tackle the problem. Eighteen-year-old Emma Lim, a student at McGill University in Montreal, launched the #NoFutureNoChildren movement. Because of the crisis the planet is currently facing, she does not believe that it is…
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been forced to apologise after a yearbook photo emerged of him in 'brownface'. The image, which was published in a recent article in Time Magazine, shows Trudeau wearing brown makeup and a turban while dressed as Aladdin at an Arabian Nights-themed gala at West…
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Dwarfism is a condition which is estimated to affect between 1 in 15,000 to 1 in 40,000 people, Medicine Plus reports. The condition, which can vary significantly in severity and form, has been notoriously stigmatized, with many terms offensive to those affected still used in everyday language, such as "midget".…
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Photographic memory - also known as eidetic memory - refers to a person's ability to memorise specific details about an object after having only seen it once, and for a short period of time. Generally, it is a phenomenon that people without a photographic memory are very impressed by. We…
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the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has released audio transcripts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi hit squad that reportedly killed him inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. The recordings, which were obtained by Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), and subsequently published by the newspaper yesterday, recount the…
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Legendary chef Jose Andres has brought his non-profit organisation, “World Central Kitchen”, to the Bahamas in order to help victims of the devastating hurricane that has ripped through the region. On the 31st of August, Andres tweeted that he and the organisation were heading to Nassau by plane, before completing…
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A woman has managed the unprecedented achievement of giving birth to a pair of twins at the age of 74. Per The Telegraph, Eramatti Mangayamma gave birth to two healthy baby girls on September 5, 2019. She was able to conceive the children with her 78-year-old husband, who was by…
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A woman who developed 2,500 personalities to cope with the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father has watched him get locked away. Jennifer Haynes was raped and molested by her father from the age of four to 11 between 1974 and 1981. The Australian was then forced…
