Researchers now think pandas’ notoriously low libido is because they are too comfortable to make the effort to search for a mateName: Panda sex.Age: 18m years old. Continue reading…
This energy price crisis could have been avoided | Letters
Readers respond to the rapidly rising costs of gas and the search for alternative fuelsPerhaps the simplest yet most effective measure that the government could take to minimise the impact of rising wholesale gas prices on the “fuel poor” would be to m…
Britain’s energy crisis has been years in the making, thanks to the Conservatives | Ed Davey
Since 2015 policies to insulate Britain’s homes and diversify our energy supply have stalledEd Davey is leader of the Liberal Democrats and former energy and climate change secretaryRocketing heating bills owing to dramatic gas price rises are just the…
‘Earth looks fragile from space’: Jeff Bezos pledges $1bn to conservation
Donation from $10bn Bezos Earth Fund will go towards biodiversity hotspots in Congo Basin and AndesJeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has said he realised just how fragile the Earth was when he looked back down at it from space, while committing $1bn t…
Johnson says he has changed his mind on the climate – but he’s still dragging his feet | Adrienne Buller
Outright denial has been replaced by something that may turn out to be even worse: delayAs he flew to New York yesterday to speak to the UN general assembly about the Cop26 climate conference, Boris Johnson was asked to defend old comments made by his …
UK households face second record energy bill rise
Analysts predict a further 14% jump for spring 2022 on top of next month’s scheduled £139 riseMillions of households could face a second record jump in energy bills next spring, on top of the £139 increase due next month, as the global gas crisis conti…
‘Revolutionary in a quiet way’: the rise of community gardens in the UK
Royal Horticultural Society sets up first Community Awards as community gardens become more common“The first melon of the season always tastes amazing,” says Lucy Mitchell. “I don’t think anyone has ever taken one home – every year, we just cut them in…
Urgent climate action is getting lost in the heat of Germany’s election campaign | Hanna Gersmann
Despite the summer’s floods, frontrunner Olaf Scholz’s ‘moderate’ climate message is holding out against the GreensForty years ago, Germans loved to make fun of eco-types who ate muesli, wore shapeless knitted sweaters and packed their groceries in jut…
A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean
Activists in Benton Harbor say it’s been an uphill battle getting the city, county and state to take action Bobbie Clay first realized something was wrong a few years ago.The water at her Benton Harbor, Michigan, home had started coming out of the tap …
Dancing, starry dwarf and narrow-mouthed: new species make India a frog paradise
Dozens of discoveries in recent years have shown the country to be a treasure trove of amphibiansIt is barely the size of a thumbnail, so it may not come as a surprise that it took so long to spot the starry dwarf frog. It was discovered sitting next t…