2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (721+ words) Karelia, a vast region of birch forests and huge lakes that straddles part of eastern Finland and a sizeable chunk of northwestern Russia, is perhaps an unlikely place to find answers to the global allergy epidemic. Yet it was here,…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1469+ words) An afternoon of cutting and sewing sofas together would always leave Bruce Jack's glasses "white with the dust." "It was sort of like talcum powder. It would clog up all the needles, he said. The dust was residue from the…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (945+ words) From atop the hill known as Mam Tor, the gritstone moors of the Peak District stretch to the northwest. To the southeast, Breedon cement works belches a million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Nature and industry…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago  (869+ words) The woman that emerges in Francesca Wade's strikingly accomplished biography of the avant-garde writer is eccentric, flawed, funny and vulnerable Gertrude Stein " self-declared literary genius and "Mr Cuddle-Wuddle' The woman that emerges in Francesca Wade's strikingly accomplished biography of the…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (922+ words) As millions of us flew off for an Easter getaway, the pilot behind the controls may have been having second thoughts about how many of us really needed to be in the air. A small but growing number of pilots…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (760+ words) Scientists have classed emperor penguins as at risk of extinction for the first time ever after Antarctica's melting ice crashed its populations. A rapid decline in the global population of the species has caused the birds to jump two stages…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (398+ words) Climate change has been overtaken by human health as the number one priority for institutional investors that badge themselves as "sustainable" or "ESG", amid a backlash against the terminology of purposeful investing. A poll of 200 fund managers found they were…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (801+ words) I thought my car was big until I turned on to Fog Bay Road. I'm two hours south of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory and this left turn has taken me into the wilderness of the Top End. Suddenly everyone's…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (576+ words) High petrol prices triggered by the Iran war and cheaper electricity tariffs for home-charging have contributed to an increase in interest from motorists wanting to switch to electric vehicles. While EV advocates have long championed non-petrol cars as a more…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (842+ words) A narrow strip of water in the Gulf has become a key focus since America and Israel launched their strikes on Iran at the end of February. The Strait of Hormuz is a key shipping route through which a quarter…...