Month: August 2021

We For India: Saving Lives: Annie Lennox, Ed Sheeran and Mick Jagger will join Bollywood superstars to raise funds for Covid relief work in India. 

Online grocer Ocado has announced its employees will be allowed to work remotely from a country of their choosing for up to a month.  

Anne Sacoolas – the suspect in the death of British teenager Harry Dunn – may have been “distracted by her mobile phone” before the fatal crash, his family lawyers claimed. 

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has told Sky News the UK is “on track” to meet its “challenging” target of hitting net zero emissions by 2050. 

National Geographic says climate change has already touched every corner of the planet and will continue to reshape the human experience for centuries to come.

The Guardian says human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.

Daily Mail says the Earth is likely to warm by 1.5C within the next 20 years, a decade earlier than expected — and heatwaves, flooding and droughts will be more frequent.

The Sun says HUMANS are warming up the planet faster than ever before in a ‘code red’ for humanity, a damning climate change report warns today.

The i says the latest update to the UK’s traffic light travel restrictions came on Wednesday 4 August, with movement on all three lists.

The Guardian says the government has launched a £4m fund to back projects trialling running fibre optic broadband cables through water pipes to help connect hard-to-reach homes without digging up roads.