With the Environmental Audit Committee revealing that the UK throws away a deplorable 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups annually (enough to circle the planet five and a half times), it is no surprise that the coffee to go industry is coming under scrutiny.
Given the news emerging this week with regards to Intel’s processor fiasco, which Apple admitted has affected all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, it may be worth counting Apple out of the running for 2018’s hottest race: Becoming the world’s first company valued at $1 trillion....
UK car sales fell in the past year for the first time since 2011 and some industry experts believe that the eventual diesel ban that was announced by the government in 2017 was one of the key factors in this....
2017 was the very first year since the advent of industrialisation that the UK generated more than half of its total energy from low carbon sources. The big winner was wind power which supplied twice as much power as coal, and the big loser was coal which plummeted to new lows. In fact, the UK had its first totally coal free day since 1882, the year the first residential coal power plant was switched on....
As the world welcomes in the Near Year, Iceland heralds a new era for gender equality. The Nordic nation, which has been voted as the most gender equal country for nine years in a row, has just introduced a new law making it illegal to pay men more than women. ...
By cutting down on the amount of presents we buy at Christmas time, we can instead invest money in the future of the next generation. As an alternative to buying young children expensive presents that are often only used for a token few winter mornings, some parents are instead ask for family to put money towards a growing nest egg.
Air travel is a mode of transport that continues to grow in popularity, with China expected to become the largest market by 2022. Yet in terms of technology it feels as though technology has stagnated following the demise of the iconic passenger plane known simply as Concorde....
Facilitated by a new range of travel apps, passengers and pilots are becoming increasingly connected. With just a simple search you can find out if any light aircraft are flying in your local area with available seating. It can be an increasingly cheap mode of transport, and more people are looking at it as a plausible alternative....
High rise construction is taking place all over the world and has been driven by rapid urbanisation in recent years. Building vertically is no longer limited to large financial districts in the major cities with countries now responding to the droves of people moving to the city every year.
In an attempt to understand what drives abusive and threatening social media users, Sky news confronted two people who had publicly called for the hanging of Conservative MP Anna Soubry for voting against the government on the recent Brexit bill, in which a fellow Remain supporting MP had tabled an amendment calling for Parliament to have the final say over any final deal....
Describing itself as “The bank of the future”, digital banking platform Monzo claims to be bringing a new kind of banking to the masses, asserting on its homepage “this is banking like never before.”
Japanese internet service provider GMO Internet Group is looking to introduce a new payment option for their employees. It will allow employees to receive a proportion of their salaries in bitcoin, the cryptocurrency which is now worth four times as much as an ounce of gold.
It is no secret that the global meat industry is unimaginably wasteful. The cost to the planet of our escalating meat production is extreme, and the price animals themselves pay throughout their short lives and death is a cruel one....
Luxury high-tech sleep company Simba are aiming to reinvent late night travelling with the induction of their new cutting edge ‘Snoozeliner’....
The European Union and a worldwide collection of financial and insurance giants have decided to give the planet an early Christmas present by upping their investments in the fight against destructive climate change....
Born from the first ever pizza Margherita which was invented in Naples in 1889, Pizza is one of the world’s most popular dishes....
Olive oil is a staple part of the diet for millions of people across the world. The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin and there is evidence that people have been cultivating and collecting the fruit since at least 8000 BC. After 10,000 years countries such as Spain, Italy, Morocco and Greece are still the home of olive oil production which has become a global industry....
If you’ve looked for housing in Sydney in the last five years, chances are you may have found the whole process a bit of a challenge. With prices rising by as much as 60% in that period, it’s clear many simply can’t get their foot in the door. The list of reasons why this has occurred is not insignificant. Record low interest rates and sizeable tax breaks for both local and overseas investors seem to be the main arbiters....
Retail giant Amazon has finally rolled out its services to Australia in time for Christmas, offering a range of services which includes its popular one-day delivery. The launch has been met with a mixture of responses with some analysts uncertain whether Amazon will be able to adapt areas of the business to meet consumer expectations....
The Queen today welcomed the largest ship ever operated by the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The first of two aircraft carriers to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth will enable the UK’s armed forces to project military capability to any would-be aggressors across the world....
