Despite the ongoing pandemic good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
Doctors in Europe, India and Israel have begun using a medical gun that spins out a protective web to cover burns and wounds, hoping the breathable “skin substitute” will help patients recover without the need for painful bandage changes.
04/01/2021 The Guardian
When it comes to microplastics, there’s rarely good news. Researchers continue to find the tiny plastic fragments everywhere they look.
18/02/2021 The Guardian
Denmark’s government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial “energy island” which is to be built 80km offshore, in the middle of the North Sea. The island to the west of the Jutland peninsula will initially have an area of…
04/02/2021 The Guardian
Access to deeper waters allow turbines to be positioned in areas with more consistent windspeeds, company says
24/03/2021 The Independent
Swallowable cameras the size of capsules will be given to NHS patients in a “sci-fi” bid to check for cancer. Taking more than 57,000 pictures as they work through the digestive system, the disposable devices are intended to replace complicated and…
11/03/2021 Telegraph
This is the first jab to surpass the 75 per cent efficacy goal set by World Health, with scientists and experts more hopeful than ever that the deadly disease can one day be brought under control
23/04/2021 The Independent
Hair cuttings from salons are being used to mop up oil spills and hair bleaches, and dyes are being burned to create energy as part of a scheme to make the hairdressing industry greener.
29/05/2021 The Guardian
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate was cut from a photo with Greta Thunberg leaving only white people. It was an event that would hurtle her to global fame. She spoke to Abdi Latif Dahir
14/05/2021 The Independent
Installing solar panels over California's 4,000 miles of canals could generate less expensive, renewable energy, save water, fight climate change – and offer a solution for the thirsty American West.
03/05/2021 The Conversation
Rather than considering the job done, Tasmania should seize opportunities including renewable energy, net-zero industrial exports and forest preservation.
07/06/2021 The Conversation
The activist hedge fund behind ExxonMobil’s boardroom coup last week has claimed another seat from the oil giant’s board, to take the number of new directors who will push for climate action from within the company to three.
04/06/2021 The Guardian
A landmark report by the world’s most senior climate and biodiversity scientists argues that the world will have to tackle the climate crisis and the species extinction crisis simultaneously, or not at all.
30/06/2021 The Conversation
In a medical first, researchers have harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak to help him communicate better
14/07/2021 The Independent
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats in the world. New research, however, may have found a way to keep up with rapidly evolving bacteria.
09/08/2021 The Conversation
Growing vegetables and fish together in a confined space, and without fertilizers and pesticides. Is this the future of food production?
13/08/2021 Deutsche Welle
Is there a greener way to honor those who have died? Humans have caused unprecedented and irreversible changes to the climate in our time on Earth – pollution that continues even in death. But, across the US, some are posing an alternative: human…
12/08/2021 The Guardian
Harvard University says it will stop investing its $41.9 billion endowment in the fossil fuel industry, citing the threat of climate change. Activists have called on the university to do so for years.
10/09/2021 NPR
Problems with affordable, accessible energy could be mitigated by making more energy providers publicly owned.
12/10/2021 The Conversation
The hope of reducing health inequalities for black people made it worth recommending, the regulator says.
04/10/2021 BBC
After more than a year of lockdowns, with limited access to nature, Magdalena Begh was delighted when her six-year-old daughter came home from forest school and informed her she had found three rat skeletons.
31/10/2021 The Guardian
A new treatment using stem cells that produce insulin has surprised experts and given them hope for the 1.5 million Americans living with the disease.
27/11/2021 New York Times
Technological advancements in food production have created new ways to meet the growing demand for protein. Canada’s investment in this industry may create jobs and reduce carbon emissions.
15/12/2021 The Conversation
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