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.
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, […]
UNESCO’s Executive Board has just added 18 new sites to the organisation’s Global Geoparks network, bringing the total number to 213 across 48 countries around the […]
Dutch airport Schiphol is trialling the use of airside self-driving buses in tests due to continue to the end of April. More sustainable ground operation The […]
The Earth’s human population is generating a huge and growing volume of electronic waste every year, posing a pollution risk and squandering recyclable natural resources, according […]
Swiss technology company IQAir has been monitoring air quality around the world for several years. They have just released the 6th Annual World Air Quality Report, […]
On 15 March, the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on an update of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). While the […]
The UAE has been using cloud seeding technology to influence rainfall since the 1990s. Cloud seeding involves tracking clouds and triggering them to release rain. But […]
The prospect of tunnels linking the Channel Islands to each other and to mainland France was raised this week, at two roadshows organised by the Connect […]
Water shortages in drought-stricken Morocco are taking their toll on the country’s iconic hammams. The beloved public baths have been a tradition in Morocco for hundreds […]
New research by a team of scientists at NASA and the University of Columbia, USA, suggests that volcanic super eruptions, like the one that formed the […]