Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Temperatures in Delhi, India have hit a new record high of 52.3°C, if provisional figures are verified, amid a punishing heatwave across the north and centre […]
In the future, spacecraft could be propelled by air. It’s a prediction that sounds like a child’s wild imaginings, but the idea could become reality if […]
Record-breaking heatwaves and water shortages in Thailand, and across Southeast Asia, are causing fish to die in reservoirs, school suspensions and health warnings, as temperatures, and […]
The Olympic motto of Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together, has been reimagined for Paris 2024 as Anticipate, Avoid, Reduce, Offset, and Mobilise. According to the Olympic committee, […]
Europe is once again facing a brutally hot summer, according to meteorologists and weather forecasts. After ten months running of record-beating global highs and with ocean […]
Saudi Arabia has insisted all Neom megaprojects will continue as planned, despite rumours the kingdom would need to cut back its futuristic desert city development due […]
At the end of March, Kazakhstan was hit by a series of massive floods, hitting ten of the country’s seventeen regions. Over 119.000 people have since […]
In 2020, Luxembourg made international headlines by implementing free public transport throughout the country. Since then, all buses, trains and trams have been free of charge […]
Amid “significant interest in green hydrogen as a maritime fuel”, in the words of Lloyd’s Register CEO Nick Brown, the world’s largest hydrogen-powered ships are set […]
IKEA furniture manufacturers are depleting Europe’s ancient forests, according to a new report by Greenpeace. At least seven firms behind some of IKEA’s most popular products, […]
Google has long been working on promoting sustainable travel for its users. In 2021, it debuted a feature on Maps allowing travellers to sort their routes […]
The river Seine in Paris is too polluted to safely welcome Olympic swimming events, according to research published by an international environmental group. Pollution of faecal […]
Nepal is set to clear tons of waste from Mount Everest, ahead of the opening of the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering window. The mammoth garbage collection operation […]
Fewer than 60 companies are responsible for 80% of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions since 2016, researchers have found. Worse still, those companies have increased, not decreased, […]