Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Festivals have been trying to tackle plastic waste for years – with Glastonbury installing recycling bins in 2008 The world’s largest concert promoter, Live Nation, says it will eliminate single-use plastics at its venues and festivals by 2021. In the UK, that means events like Reading and Leeds, Wireless, […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The chief executive of Thames Water has stepped down after failing to turn around the performance of one of the UK’s largest utility companies. Steve Robertson will be replaced with immediate effect. A source close to the company said the firm wanted someone with “a mind for operations”. Thames Water, which
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American Airlines says it’s cutting the cost of checking oversized sporting gear and musical instruments on flights. American said Tuesday that it eliminated the extra oversize charge for those items and instead will charge regular bag fees, which are lower. Before Tuesday, a passenger who checked a big item like a surfboard or snowboard on
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Authorities say a dead gray whale has washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing the total to 13 dead whales found in the area since March. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the whale carcass was found Thursday along the Point Reyes National Seashore near Limantour Beach. The Marine Mammal Center plans a
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Trevor Story did a little fist pump after his seventh-inning shot. Just a way to commemorate becoming the fastest shortstop to reach 100 homers. His 101st in the ninth? Now that was celebrated with a lot more gusto. “I love that one,” Story said of his 100th, “but I’ll take the ninth-inning one.” Story hit
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. ROVANIEMI, Finland — The Arctic is thawing, and China is seizing the chance to expand its influence in the north. For China, the retreating ice potentially offers two big prizes: new sources of energy and a faster shipping route across
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William A. Darity Jr., an economist at Duke University and a leading scholar on reparations, suggests two qualifying conditions: having at least one ancestor who was enslaved in the United States, and having identified oneself as African-American on a legal document for at least a decade before the approval of any reparations. The 10-year rule,
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Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Swollen glands below the ears are a classic sign of mumps There has been a sharp increase in cases of mumps this year in England – but the viral illness which can cause swollen glands (and, more rarely, testes) has been around for a very long time. Way
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Spice Girls, as a five-piece, closed the London Olympics in 2012 “If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends, make it last forever, friendship never ends”. It is a lyric that many who grew up in the 90s are able to recite by heart.
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Image caption Dagfinn Hiehe says he no longer sits in traffic jams “I drive in the bus lane because I have an electric car. It saves me 30 minutes on every journey to work.” Dagfinn Hiehe was smiling ear-to-ear as he told me his favourite thing about having an electric car. “You don’t need to
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