In 1976, Thin Lizzy were just another rock band. Then they released Jailbreak, and the boys weren’t so much back in town as running it. But after a disappointing follow-up, the pressure was on.
Scientists in Finland and the UK have built a computer model that visualises groundwater levels in real time.
Thinktank says not enough is being done to cut coal burning and end fossil fuel subsidies
Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farms and water companies.
The veteran naturalist's BBC programme on climate change is his strongest warning yet on the threat of rising temperatures.
It’s true that many young people stare at screens instead of being out in the wild – but others use technology to form a global community of conservationists
Campaigners say it will cut pollution, but opponents claim it will hit poor people hardest
Efforts to create "green jobs" need to intensify if the government is to meet its target, a report says.
Scientists have already planned the route Nasa's next robot will drive when it lands on Mars in 2021.
Medical expert opinion continues to play a critical role in a range of criminal, civil, coronial, and regulatory processes. Such opinion can determine, for example, whether or not the Crown Prosecution Service pursues a conviction for gross negligence manslaughter following an incident or error that leads to the death of a patient. It can also, more broadly, dictate the standards to which doctors are held. In the Family Courts, medical opinion is relied upon in relation to decisions where the lives and wellbeing of children are at stake. Medical expert work is undoubtedly important for patients, families, and society as a whole. It can lead to changes that improve patient safety and ensure that justice is done. However, it can also lead to loss of a doctor’s career or liberty. If an expert gets it wrong, everyone loses. Legal processes are traumatic for doctors, patients, and families. As highlighted by the report of the Working Group on Experts in the Family Courts, there is currently a lack of appropriately qualified doctors willing to undertake expert work.1 This leads to delays in the judicial process, with potentially harmful consequences for children and families. Instruction of an expert often relies on word of mouth, …
A historic announcement was made Wednesday morning when California Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration revealed the decision to cancel registration of the
Here are five things we can do to help prevent global temperatures rising more than 1.5C.
(Beyond Pesticides, April 1, 2022) According to reporting by E&E’s Greenwire, internal emails at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that career scientists at the agency expressed worry about pesticide-laced pet collars, such as the notorious Seresto flea and tick collars, but that EPA managers “instructed them to avoid documenting those worries in publicly accessible records.” The emails were released pursuant to a 2021 FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) lawsuit, brought by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), that sought records of internal communications. The documents evidence staff concern about the collars that has not been a part of EPA’s public communications on the subject. EPA staff, in the emails, expressed a range of degrees of outrage at managers’ behavior and at the very registration of the product, given the significant harms. Seresto collars are plastic pet collars embedded with pesticides designed to kill fleas, ticks, and lice; they contain the active ingredients flumethrin and imidacloprid. Flumethrin, a chemical in the pyrethroid class of synthetic neurotoxic insecticides, has been linked repeatedly to neurological issues, such as seizures and learning disabilities in children, to gastrointestinal distress, and to damage to nontarget invertebrates, according to EPA’s own analysis. Imidacloprid is a commonly used pesticide linked to […]
Astronaut Nick Hague is ready for his next space flight attempt, after the first mission was aborted.
The first weeks of 2019 saw NHS England publish the long term plan for the NHS,1 the new five year GP contract framework,2 and the plan for universal personalised care.3 They all include an overarching idea that we should be trying to prevent people attending or being admitted to hospital. The GP contract and the promised additional £4.5bn for primary and community services are linked to a requirement that the new GP networks will be financially incentivised to cut emergency department attendances and hospital admissions. The NHS plan aims to reduce acute hospital bed use …
The mental health of refugees detained by Australia on the Pacific island of Nauru has deteriorated so badly that some children are in a "semi-comatose state", unable to eat, drink or talk, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday.
Elevated levels of lead have been found in schools across the US, alarming experts who say it is particularly harmful to children
South Korea won the bulk of its appeal on Thursday in a dispute at the World Trade Organization over import bans and testing requirements it had imposed on Japanese seafood in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Extinction Rebellion campaigners enter their third day of blocking traffic in central London.
