Morteza Abolhasani, The Open University; Gordon Liu, The Open University, and Zahra Golrokhi, The Open University Ads are ubiquitous in many people’s lives, whether on billboards across our cities...
In early 2022, surprising data were released about the A68A iceberg, a chunk of almost 14km x 8km that broke off the Larsen C shelf around 2018 or 19. Scientists from the University of Leeds...
Iwa Salami, University of East London As concerns rise and hearings are held in the US about the cryptocurrency industry’s effect on the environment, it’s time to address blockchain’s poor...
The flora and fauna of protected areas in Peru are in danger after an oil spill occurred during the unloading process of the Italian flagged vessel Mare Doricum. The Peruvian government declared an...
On Saturday, the underwater volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai erupted, with a roar so violent that it was heard thousands of kilometers away in places such as New Zealand, Fiji and Alaska. Experts...
Why is Venezuela interested in electric cars after having the cheapest gasoline in the world? A few years ago, while the rest of the world awakened to the idea of electric cars, in Venezuela it was...
Elephants and humans in Africa are embroiled in a tug-of-war over arable land due to the effects of climate change. Arid land is now the norm in many parts of sub-saharan Africa and this has prompted...
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is scheduled to take place in Glasgow, Scotland between the 31st of October and the 12th of November 2021 and much of the focus will be on...
The contamination of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo is visible from space. This was revealed by scientists from NASA's The Earth Observatory, an institution that makes public its data, images and...
A couple of weeks ago, the slaughter of 1,428 dolphins in the Faroe Islands alarmed the world. A few days ago, the Colombian government seized 3,493 shark fins destined for Hong Kong. The first case...
