U.S. intervention in Venezuela, with illegitimate President Nicolas Maduro snatched in a daring January 2026 night raid, opened the country’s oil industry to foreign investment. While President Donald Trump is aggressively pushing for Big Oil to invest in Venezuela, energy majors are taking a more sober approach. Venezuela’s heavily corroded oil infrastructure, responsible for a…
Tuesday’s motion was advisory, meaning cabinet is not legally obliged to act on it. Demonstrations were held outside the council’s headquarters in Truro during the full council meeting. Green group leader councillor Drew Creek said reintroducing glyphosate would be harmful to human health as well as the environment. Creek said he hoped the council would…
Making children’s safety a core principle of how places are designed, built and managed is the focus of a new toolkit published by the NSPCC this spring. Mott MacDonald’s Sarah Marshall, who co-authored the guidance, explains Image: Dreamstime NSPCC’s name is synonymous with protecting children from harm. A new report published by the charity this…
X Register for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox Register Barnsley-based structural steel business, Billington Holdings, has reported a difficult market environment in 2025, with reduced demand and competitive pricing pressures impacting its margins. Publishing its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2025, Billington said revenue fell by 15.4 per…
X Register for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox Register Barnsley-based structural steel business, Billington Holdings, has reported a difficult market environment in 2025, with reduced demand and competitive pricing pressures impacting its margins. Publishing its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2025, Billington said revenue fell by 15.4 per…
Connected TV (CTV) usage continues to diversify across households in Germany and Austria, strengthening its value for advertisers through more targeted and attentive audiences, according to the Adv… Source link
Image: iStock | © CHUNYIP WONG CLEAR is a global initiative designed to harmonise whole-life carbon reporting and measurement across the global built environment. CLEAR is being launched at the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit held on April 20-22, 2026, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Huge share of carbon emissions come from the built environment Human-generated carbon…
numa applies projection to redefine confined elevator spaces NUMA is an immersive projection-based system that reconsiders the elevator cabin as a responsive spatial interface. Developed by interaction designer and creative technologist Shimin Gu, the project addresses the experiential qualities of elevators, which are typically defined by technical and functional requirements rather than spatial perception….
By Royal Warrant, His Majesty King Charles III has appointed four new Commissioners to the Forestry Commission. Rebecca Heaton and Mike Kapur have been appointed for a four-year term and Pamela Abbott and John Varley have been appointed for a three-year term. All four appointments commenced on 1 April 2026. The appointments have been made…
The claimant in a legal case that could have extended whistleblowing protections to charity trustees has quit as chair of a charity due to an alleged “hazardous legal environment”. Nigel MacLennan stepped down from the classical music charity Playground Proms because continuing in his role would mean “endorsing a system that is dysfunctional and broken”,…
