In a world where the urgent need to tackle climate change is clear, it is a shocking fact that 40 per cent of all the food grown on our planet goes uneaten. More than four million square kilometres of land – roughly equivalent to the land mass of the Indian subcontinent – is used to … Read more
Las Vegas is one of the brightest-lit cities in the US that attracts people from around the world, but the artificial lights also lured 46 million grasshoppers in one summer night in 2019. A new study analyzed the invasion using radar data, finding that artificial light awakened the rather idle insects and did so in … Read more
Fish poop, breath and other excretions produce over a billion tons of carbon every year, according to a new study. That’s more than 15 percent of all the carbon in the ocean, the planet’s largest active carbon ‘sink,’ or absorber of carbon dioxide. That makes fish an important component of the carbon cycle, researchers say, … Read more
Two-time Grammy nominee Jennifer Lopez flaunted her shiny, unwrinkled complexion on Friday to promote skincare company JLo Beauty, which launched January 1 after three years of development. Many commenters, including Instagram user @suekimstagram, promptly accused the 51-year-old pop diva of having ‘tons of Botox.’ ‘LOL thats just my face! For the 500 millionth time, I … Read more
A huge iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons is now just 30 miles away from South Georgia – threatening the habitat of millions of penguins. Iceberg A68a – which broke from the Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 – slid towards the open ocean for over two years until it hit the powerful Circumpolar … Read more
Three tons of cannabis is washed up in Spain after speed boat ferrying the £14 million cargo ran aground in Storm Barbara 90 bales of cannabis resin washed up on Isla Canela beach in southwest Spain Speed boat that ran aground is thought to have been ferrying the drugs The resin was washed in by … Read more
Microplastic pollution is not just damaging the oceans: Washing clothes releases 175,000 TONS of synthetic fibres on to land every year, study finds US experts analysed the amount of microfibers made and released each year They also considered how fibres are processed at wastewater treatment plants Here, the tiny threads of plastic end up in sludge for … Read more
Better Tikka diversion! Two lanes of M4 motorway are closed after lorry spills five pallets of PILAU RICE Almost three tons of pilau rice fell off the truck and were spilled all over M4 Wiltshire police officers shared the photos on social media and said ‘smells nice’ Two lanes of the motorway are closed and … Read more
Aviation’s impact on global warming has doubled in the past two decades, according to a new study. Using computer models, researchers found flying is responsible for about 3.5 percent of humanity’s contribution to climate change, and two-thirds of that is from contrails and other non-CO2 emissions. The team calculates that between 1940 and 2018, the … Read more
A frustrated landowner has taken revenge on neighbours accused of fly-tipping tons of rubbish on his land – by chucking it back over the garden wall. Cliff Hamilton purchased the overgrown plot on Bath Road in Hounslow, west London, nine months ago and had the site secured with high fences, padlocks and chains. But recently … Read more