For three decades a collective of artists has worked away at Jamaica Street Studios in Stokes Croft, the bohemian Bristol enclave regarded as Banksy’s spiritual home.
13/05/2024
Every year about 130 million households across Europe burn almost 40% of the continent’s total gas consumption to heat their homes. Those boilers contribute more than a fifth of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions in the process.
Spending time online is often portrayed as something to avoid, but research suggests internet use is associated with greater wellbeing in people around the world.
If you are a woman born in the 70s who has Googled “menopause” on an iPhone, you probably know who Mary Claire Haver is.
12/05/2024
Sitting in a sultry corner of southern India, beside the rain trees and beaches of Mangalore, Shifrah Jacobs, the co-founder of Plastics for Change, smiles as she recalls how it all began.
I am a generous tipper. I’ve always thought, to the extent that I have thought about it at all, that this is a positive trait. Recently, however, I’ve begun to wonder.
The government is rejecting more than 40% of applications for disability benefit from people with multiple sclerosis (MS), cerebral palsy and arthritis – and one in four applications from amputees, the Observer can reveal.
When sommelier Erika Haigh opened the UK’s first independent sake bar, in London’s West End in 2019, passersby would wander in and try to order milkshakes, bewildered by the unfamiliar drink advertised in the window.
It takes just a short stroll around Lisbon’s Sâo Domingos church to get a sense of its centuries-long history; a monument bearing the Star of David commemorates the thousands of Jews killed by a mob in 1506, while the church’s scorched pillars…
The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died about two months later, with the hospital that performed the surgery saying it did not have any indication the transplant was the cause.
It is time to go. Time to say goodbye to the house I have lived in for 37 years. Downsizing – that word implies a shrinking world. Getting older, needing smaller, family gone, not fit for steps, last stop pending.
The world needs a “climate armistice” between the US and China if net zero emissions are to be reached while Australia should hone its efforts on a few key areas where it has an unusual competitive edge, Larry Marshall, the former CSIRO chief…
11/05/2024
