The Environment Agency is investigating after images circulating on social media appeared to show an unknown substance in the Tavistock Canal on Wednesday 1 April. Reports emerged on Wednesday morning, with images shared online appearing to show a substance in the water. Members of the public commenting on social media suggested the substance looked like…
The Conservatives want to drill the rest of the North Sea for oil and gas but would doing so actually bring down surging energy prices? Plus MPs urge DEFRA to merge England’s nature and environment watchdogs. Source link
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee “FESCo” this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd’s environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables. The Fedora 45 proposal sought to use systemd.environment-generator for managing per-user environment variables, rather than relying on individual shellrc scripts of ~/.bashrc and friends. The proposal argued…
At dusk, the greatest migration of biomass on Earth unfolds through the oceans in near silence, largely unnoticed. Trillions of often tiny creatures – zooplankton, krill, lanternfish – rise in synchrony from the depths, drawn by blooms of phytoplankton in the uppermost layers of water. They feast through the night, safe from predators that hunt…
Her bespoke facility offers something new for women in Preston, as it is one of only two women-only gyms in the area. With over 400 members, the gym hosts weekly classes, run clubs, walk clubs, and social events. But for Freya, it represents far more than just a place to exercise. “I was a bit…
A rapidly expanding certification scheme run by a UK nonprofit and used by major gas companies may be understating the actual methane emissions it purports to certify, a Guardian investigation has found. BP, ExxonMobil and EQT are among the producers that have turned to London-based MiQ to demonstrate that their US-produced natural gas complies with…
Coffee shop chain Clements has announced it is to close its remaining outlets in Belfast as a result of being “unable to secure a sustainable path forward”. The move brings to an end the chain’s presence in the city after more than a quarter of a century. Once one of the north’s largest independent coffee…
The regulator completed over 10,000 checks across England in the past year, a record number, including more than 730 inspections of Southern Water’s wastewater sites across the South. While 68 per cent of the company’s sites were found to be compliant with environmental permits, inspectors uncovered a series of problems ranging from poor maintenance to…
Some of the thousands of trucks that transport soya beans down a road in the Amazon Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos The myriad ways in which deforestation in the Amazon could deleteriously impact the climate aren’t a new revelation. In fact, climate scientists and activists have long been sounding alarms about protecting the rainforest. Yet the Brazilian…
Datacom’s AI and infrastructure experts – Matt Neil (Director – Data Centres), Mike Walls (Director – Cloud) and Daniel Bowbyes (Associate Director – Strategy) – discuss when centralised compute makes sense for AI, and how to orchestrate AI across edge, core data centres and cloud. The team shares governance, readiness and architectural approaches to enable…
