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.
The naval blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz has transformed a vital shipping lane into an environmental disaster zone. Months of missile and mine attacks on oil tankers have left massive, visible slicks that threaten fragile marine ecosystems, coral reefs, and coastal wildlife across the Gulf. There is no such thing as a clean war. Not for the unlucky humans that are drawn into it, nor for the unlucky environment in which the conflict takes place.
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.
The recent US elections sparked memories of a notorious press conference as this week's 15 punchlines in search of a question arrive to test your grasp of topical news, general knowledge and pop culture. Let’s be having you!
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.
Maddie rings at the worst moments. It’s usually when she’s on the train and I can’t even hear her. I have a long commute, so it makes sense to call her then. Why pick up if you don’t want to speak to me?
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.
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.
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.
Children, and our relationships with them, are full of possibility. You don’t yet know how this one will unfold. Approach what comes next with curiosity and openness, and leave the space wide to see what fills it.
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.
Tanuki: Pon’s Summer is a game of quiet restoration that tasks you with repairing an ancient shrine and delivering mail on a BMX. It is a reminder of how much magic video games can find in the pleasing business of putting things back together again.
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.
Whatever you thought the early 2020s were going to throw up musically, it’s highly unlikely you would have predicted the arrival of Blackhaine. Saints in the Wethouse is an experience that wrings the listener out, dragging them headlong through an unforgiving musical landscape. Whatever Blackhaine claims about copyists, he sounds pretty inimitable.
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.
We meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. Ben Lerner’s novella is a thoughtful meditation on memory, storytelling and lives lived through technology. The narrator’s anxiety over his phone falls away as he engages with the world around him and with his past.
Three acts share their stories as they prepare to represent Bhutan, South Korea, and the Philippines in Bangkok for the inaugural Asian edition of Eurovision: a bar singer taking his first flight, a K-pop veteran aiming to win, and a young pop diva representing the strength of Filipinas.
Allen follows the adult version of a manchild haunted by his childhood alien encounter. This live-action feature from Ludo Studio turns a quirky premise into a relentlessly unsubtle facsimile beholden to formula, spelling out its emotional significance so thoroughly there is little left for us to feel.
An 11-month-old South Carolina boy buried alive in a dog crate by his father was rescued after 24 hours, crying and covered in dirt, and is expected to make a full recovery. The father has been charged with attempted murder after the dramatic search in the woods.