How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Paris (my second favorite city) used to be a city where cars ruled and the beautiful boulevards were choked with traffic, the air was thick with exhaust, and finding a parking space felt like a competitive sport. But walk through the French capital today and something feels fundamentally different. Bike lanes have appeared on streets…
Green energy boss backs MORE North Sea oil and gas production
When I first read about this – I was a little perplexed as it’s not every day that a figure from the green energy world steps forward to defend North Sea oil and gas production. But that’s exactly what happened recently, and it’s stirred up a genuinely interesting debate about how the UK navigates the…
The Hidden Environmental Costs of AI: What Every Prompt Means for the Planet
Every time you type a prompt into ChatGPT (or in my case Claude which is my preferred company for a number of reasons), ask an AI to generate an image, or let a recommendation algorithm decide what you watch next, something invisible is happening in the background. Servers are spinning up. Electricity is flowing. Cooling…
Is Illegal Dumping Winning? How Weak Enforcement Fuels Environmental Crisis
There’s a stretch of road outside almost every major city where the guardrails are lined with old mattresses, broken televisions, and bags of construction debris. You’ve probably driven past something like it. Maybe you’ve even wondered who does this – and why nobody seems to stop it. The answer is uncomfortable: in many places, illegal…
Surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers
Sinkholes Devouring Farmlands in Turkey: A Growing Threat Beneath the Soil On a quiet morning in central Turkey, farmer Mehmet Yilmaz watched the earth open before his eyes. One moment he was checking his wheat field; the next, a deep crater large enough to swallow a tractor had appeared where his crops once stood. He…
Empowering Women Through Water: The Ripple Effect of Accessible Resources
Every morning, millions of women wake up before dawn and begin walking. Not to work, not to school – but to find water. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, women and girls spend an estimated 40 billion hours each year collecting water. That’s not a statistic you read and move on from. That’s 40 billion hours stolen…
- How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
- Green energy boss backs MORE North Sea oil and gas production
- The Hidden Environmental Costs of AI: What Every Prompt Means for the Planet
- Is Illegal Dumping Winning? How Weak Enforcement Fuels Environmental Crisis
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