Björk shared a video in her Youtube’s official channel calling for global action to save the Highlands of Iceland from environmental degradation. In the clip, the artist urges “the world to join us against our government” to fight a plan for the construction of power plants in the area of the Highlands. Iceland’s Highlands, the – geologically speaking
One of the great limitations of renewable energy is intermittence: output is hard to forecast because electricity production depends on unpredictable factors such as the wind blowing or the sun shining. The solution would be to use batteries to store energy but these are expensive and harmful to the environment. Now, thanks to research conducted
Etienne Turpin is a philosopher specialised in complex urban systems, aesthetics and visual culture. He believes that the only meaningful way to approach the problem of “urban flooding in the context of climate change is honest, open science with open source software and open data that can be reviewed by a community of users”.
An Israeli restaurant decided to give a 50% discount to Arabs and Jews who eat at the same table, in order to promote reconciliatioon and soften racial tensions.
In mid September, a viral video that hit millions of views appeared on YouTube. It features Stevie Wonder and James Corden, writer and host of the CBS’ lucky programme The Late Late Show, while they discuss in a car the sense of life, joke around and sing together the songs played by the car radio. A hilarious video where
Datacentres would be responsible for 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions globally, data show.
The 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought a home-built clock to school. Mistook for a bomb, he’s got arrested. US President Obama and Facebook founder Zuckerberg wrote to him.
One of the main countries, and one of the most debated, chosen by refugees to reach Northern Europe is Hungary. Among the measures taken by Viktor Orbán’s government there is the construction of a wall along the border with Serbia, aimed to contain the flow of people illegally entering the country that, according to local
A picture taken in Svalbard clearly shows the phenomenon of arctic ice melting that is threatening polar bears survival.
After celebrating a year riding around the world Daniele Carletti and Simona Pergola arrived in China. Since the beginning there were a few problems: the visa on the passport expires in 30 days, not enough to travel China by bike. On 25 July the guys met three Chinese cyclists that were going to Tibet towards
