Egypt is moving to embed environmental considerations into its local development framework as part of a broader effort to improve resource efficiency and advance sustainable development across governorates, Minister of Local Development and Environment Manal Awad said. In a statement, the ministry said Awad chaired an expanded meeting with senior officials to review key policy…
Environmental issues now dominate the agricultural agenda. Picture: Cliff Donaldson The Ulster Farmers’ Union environmental policy committee continues to have a packed agenda and is actively engaged on a number of fronts representing the views of Northern Ireland farmers on environmental issues. The current Chairman of the Committee is Ian Buchanan from Dungiven and vice…
Arabic version: فريا رايدينغز تستعيد مسيرتها بعد مغادرتها بيئة سامة Freya Ridings, known for her hit ‘Lost Without You’, has shared her journey of reclaiming her career after facing significant challenges in the music industry. According to BBC News, Ridings experienced a crisis of confidence during the recording of her second album, ‘Blood Orange’, which…
Nigel Farage’s farming adviser has called for a doubling of wheat prices by using trade policy, which critics have said would hike food costs during a cost-of-living crisis. Arable farmer and campaigner Clive Bailye has been appointed as a farming and land use adviser for Reform UK. Bailye owns the website The Farming Forum, a…
Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia, southern Spain. It is so vast that it can even be seen from space: if you open Google Maps and look west of Almería, you will see a white patch that looks like a glacier, but as you zoom in, you realise it is the highest concentration of greenhouses…
Appendix: External dataset for additional validation Data description To further strengthen the reliability of the reported performance metrics and to explicitly address concerns related to possible overfitting or data leakage, additional experiments were conducted using an independent public dataset, namely the Smart Manufacturing IoT–Cloud Monitoring Dataset, available on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ziya07/smart-manufacturing-iot-cloud-monitoring-dataset). This dataset was designed to…
At the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), June will help lead IIPP’s Public Value initiative, whose goals are to reinvigorate the concept of public value in economics and to operationalise a framework – rooted in public purpose – for crafting policy, measuring efficacy, and recognising and rewarding innovation. Author of The Public…
Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms. Fish 4.6 brings better handling for the width of emoji icons, the tab completion pager now left-justifies the description of each column, set_color improvements, and a variety of other minor enhancements. Fish 4.6 also now supports the…
Up on the old logging roads near Kirkennan estate, I saw some wild roe deer. They are one of only two deer species that are native to Scotland, as well as red deer. Back in the 1700s, they were almost extinct here, but they can now be found across the country. When we were walking…
The first signs of spring shine through the shadow of Haytor Rocks, a granite guard of Dartmoor’s natural secrets. The sun’s heat warms the granite, the first bumblebees thrum over the gorse. After months of mizzly rain, it was freeing to be out on the moor again. The trees were awakening, early emergers blackthorn and…
