A meteor shower will reach its peak across the next two nights – giving people in the UK the chance to enjoy the spectacular event with the naked eye. The Northern Taurids are active from October until the beginning of December – but the coming days are expected to see them produce very bright meteors. Experts say the astronomical event ...
Many popular over-the-counter cold and flu remedies risk being pulled from shelves in the US after its drug regulator ruled a key ingredient to be ineffective. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said oral phenylephrine is not an effective nasal decongestant. Phenylephrine is the main decongestant ingredient in soluble and tablet-form cold-and-flu medicines such as Lemsip, Beechams, and ...
‘Don’t play Wordle’ is the plea from striking New York Times workers who are complaining about what they say are unfair labour practices. The New York Times Tech Guild, which works on things like election content and recipes alongside the newspaper and website’s popular array of puzzles, began industrial action earlier this week. The union said it gave management “months ...
Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer accused of serious human rights abuses, is “perfectly suited” to host a critical global climate summit, according to its man in charge. Before the COP29 climate talks kick off in the capital Baku on Monday, the president of the talks, Mukhtar Babayev, told Sky News the country has plenty to bring to the ...
After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it’s no wonder this year’s UN climate summit has been called – once again – the “last-chance saloon”. Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump. The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US from the global climate process, ...
The Prince of Wales will attend next year’s COP climate conference in Brazil, it has been confirmed, as he pushes to “use his platform to spread urgent optimism” around the environmental debate. It follows Prince William’s week-long trip to South Africa where he celebrated the fourth year of his annual Earthshot prize. He launched the environmental awards in 2021 to ...
HS2 is spending more than £100m on a “shed” to protect bats on a section of the line, even though there is “no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats”, the project company’s chairman has said. Sir Jon Thompson said the 1km (0.6 mile) curved structure at Sheephouse Wood in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier so the creatures can fly ...
China says it’s a developing country, so it doesn’t have to pay into a major new fund to help poor countries cope with climate change. The United States disagrees. This is at the heart of an almighty row about to boil over at the UN COP29 climate talks next week in Azerbaijan. Or is it all just an elaborate “distraction”? ...
Another case of the new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK, health officials have said. It brings the total number of confirmed cases of the Clade 1b variant in the UK to four. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said all of the cases belonged to the same household. How is the new mpox strain different? Last ...
“The future is gonna be fantastic,” America’s unlikely kingmaker posted on X, above a photograph of his Starship rocket blasting into space. It was, after all, Elon Musk who strapped boosters to Donald Trump’s campaign and helped propel him to a decisive victory. The world’s richest man bombarded his 200m+ followers on the platform he controls with pro-Trump content, some ...