What do you get when you mix a starchy vegetable and a cartoon fish? The “ultimate roasting spud”, of course. It may sound like the start of a bad joke, but demand for the hybrid Nemo variety of potato has seen a boost in the amount being planted. Distinctive for its appearance – reddish-pink skin with yellow patches – the ...
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Climate change caused by humans fuelled all the ten deadliest weather events of the last two decades, analysis has found. The ferocious cyclones, heatwaves, drought and flooding, including in Europe, have killed more than 570,000 people. All were all made more intense and more likely in a hotter atmosphere, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group at Imperial College London said ...
The NSPCC is warning an AI company that allowed users to create chatbots imitating murdered teenager Brianna Ghey and her mother pursued “growth and profit at the expense of safety and decency”. Character.AI, which last week was accused of “manipulating” a teenage boy into taking his own life, also allowed users to create chatbots imitating teenager Molly Russell. Molly took ...
A case of a new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time, it has been announced. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said a single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b was detected in London. There was no evidence of community transmission from the patient, who is being treated at the Royal ...
The extreme conditions in eastern Spain which saw Valencia get a year’s worth of rain in just eight hours can be blamed on an event locally known as Depresion Aislada en Niveles Altos (DANA). This weather situation occurs when the jet stream high up in the atmosphere meanders like a river and creates a cut off area of low pressure. ...
Another violent flood, another day we can hardly believe how climate change is, well, changing our lives. At least 72 people killed. Crops ruined, flights diverted, a high-speed train derailed. The footage is jaw-dropping: torrents of water collapsing a bridge, vehicles swept away and dumped on top of each other by powerful floodwater as if they were just a handful ...
Elon Musk has been summoned to an emergency court hearing on Thursday over the $1m prizes he has been awarding registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Tesla and X chief executive has been ordered by a judge in Philadelphia to address a civil case by the city’s top prosecutor to stop Mr Musk and his political action ...
A new, more infectious strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time. The single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b was detected in a patient who is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The UKHSA has said the risk to the population ...
Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles – two followed by 36 zeros – after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the International ...