Cargo bikes are transforming urban areas – and coming to a city near you
Some of the fractious debate over the UK’s low-traffic neighbourhoods could soon be rendered irrelevant by a new breed of bike An article in The Times in 1894 warned of a calamity. If traffic congestion in England’s capital continued in line with current trends, it doomed, then “in 50 years, every street in London will […]
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Skincare brands are finally moving away from gender stereotypes
As gender stereotypes are being exposed in society, the skincare industry is taking a less binary approach to its business. Many women who date men have, at one point or another, had to have the ‘please stop using my expensive skincare’ chat. Whether it’s the painfully expensive bottle of serum that went missing, or realising […]
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The sports star who scored a victory for mum athletes – FFA
Allyson Felix, a track and field star, was offered a worse contract when she became a mom. The backlash led to a win by mum athletes Allyson Felix, a track and field athlete, was elated to have won bronze and gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. She was the most decorated female track […]
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What is COP26 and can it save the world? – FFA
This weekend, Glasgow hosts the COP26 Climate Summit. It’s a decisive moment in the race to stabilise the climate. This is what must happen What is COP26? COP26 is the 26th international summit on climate change organized by the UN. COP (conference of the parties) events bring together the world’s nations to discuss the climate […]
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Canaries on the frontline: the craftivists making a point ahead of COP26
More than 70 ‘flocks’ of UK crafters have been gathering around the UK – from Eastbourne to Iona – in recent months in a bid to encourage politicians to act faster and bolder on the climate. Stitchers ranging from Women’s Institute stalwarts to new mums have been making hundreds of small, crafted yellow canaries to […]
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What went right this week: low-cost rail for UK, plus more positive news
An exhibition highlighted progress in most cancers care Current years have seen nice strides made in bettering the remedy of most cancers. Celebrating that progress is a UK exhibition that launched this week. Most cancers Revolution opened at Manchester’s Science and Trade Museum on Friday. It’ll transfer to the Science Museum in London in 2022. […]
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Norway hopes to boost body image with retouching law – Positive News
Legislators in Norway have served infuencers and advertisers a dose of reality, with new rules that govern the use of Photoshopped images Research suggests a link between body dissatisfaction and the use of social media, on which tweaked photos that tout unattainable standards of beauty are rife. In Norway, images that have been altered to […]
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To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter
Can a network of tweeting trees help us cut carbon emissions and increase empathy for ecosystems? Scientists think so In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio: “Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment […]
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Can we eat UK-grown produce all year, without environmental trade-offs?
A farm in Suffolk is using hyper-efficient glasshouse technology to grow tomatoes all year. Could this be a better approach than relying on imports? Richard Lewis knows his tomatoes. The former director of the British Tomato Growers’ Association has tended them since 1984. He even has a cherry tomato – ‘the Lewis’ – named after […]
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‘Speedo diplomacy’: the climate campaigner who swims with icebergs
Skimpy swim shorts, frigid fjords and hot water bottles – Lewis Pugh’s approach to climate campaigning is far from conventional The Ilulissat glacier carves icebergs that are over a kilometre tall including, legend has it, the one that sunk the Titanic. As well as feeding legends, it feeds the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland, and it’s […]
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