Private firms are engineering Halifax harbour to remove atmospheric carbon by adding an alkaline slurry to seawater, speeding up naturally occurring cycles. While proponents champion this ocean alkalinity enhancement to combat the climate crisis, marine scientists warn that adding materials to a stressed ecosystem without sufficient research risks toxic effects.

More than 40 years after Jill Posener immortalised a graffitied Fiat billboard with a big fuck you to the establishment, a new retrospective celebrates a 50-year career of cheeky, feminist photography and social justice.

Burberry has returned to profit as its back-to-basics strategy drove strong sales of the British brand’s coats, jackets and handbags over the summer. Our strategy is working.

When it comes to cooking during the festive season, time is tight and the last thing you want is to be trapped in the kitchen. Get organised like a commercial kitchen and you’ll be relaxed by the time the big day arrives with these eight easy things to do now.

Only 15 minutes away from the Dutch capital by train, Haarlem feels a million miles from Amsterdam, and perhaps provides a more typical glimpse of the Netherlands than trailing around the well-worn tourist trail of Van Gogh, coffee shops and red lights. Perhaps the best thing to do is just amble and get lost.

The past decade of British politics has had the dreamlike quality of a novel, a dystopian fiction where facts don't matter. Yet the sad, humbling process of watching this Brexit fantasy try to impose its rules on reality is coming to an end, as the electorate and politicians finally wish this nightmare would end.

Giulio Cesare is Handel’s most popular opera with at least 15 versions in the current catalogue. This new recording comes off the back of a European tour, thus benefiting from the experience of live performances. A lived-in quality is palpable here, from the frisson of emotional risk-taking to imaginatively decorated da capo sections.

Donald Trump is the biggest loser we’ve seen in a long time for scrapping climate action and ceding the clean energy race to China. By walking away from the battlefield and blackballing an entire sector of the economy, he completely missed the marketplace for goods that could be produced in the United States.

Rich chocolate, butter, egg, sugar and flour come together in a torta tenerina that is soft, dense, velvet and sticky, or easily eaten like a pudding. Gorgeous, useful, immensely likable, this cake is at its best one to three hours out of the oven.