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.
The summer of 2022 and its extreme heatwaves may have caused over 70,000 premature excess deaths across Europe, researchers say. More deaths than previously thought The […]
Kazakhstan is looking to diversify its economy from traditional exports of gas and oil and foreign investment will be crucial in achieving that goal, Prime Minister […]
On 17 November, EU Member States reached a critical agreement to no longer ship plastic waste to countries outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and […]
Greenland’s glaciers have melted five times faster in the last two decades than ever before, say scientists. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Arizona State […]
The global mean temperature for 2023 is set to be the highest ever registered, after record temperatures month on month between January and October. Billions of […]
A well-known destination glacier in Chilean Patagonia is now closed to tourists due to the risk of “catastrophic” falls of ice and disintegration. The Exploradores (Explorers) glacier is located in […]
Global temperatures are accelerating at rapid speed and will pass a major milestone this decade, research by the former NASA scientist James Hansen reveals, raising the […]
The latest global assessment of the world’s energy systems announced by the International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday keeps pushing for increased ambitions in the renewables front […]
Scientists are aware that iron in the ocean can play a role in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through a process called iron fertilization. In 1988, […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that emissions of lead from aircraft that operate on leaded fuel “cause or contribute to air pollution” — […]
Petrol and diesel cars will be banned from Stockholm’s inner city from 2025, the Swedish city has announced. Covering 20 blocks of the capital’s finance and […]
With water levels in the Amazon rivers falling to unprecedented lows, mobility between communities is restricted, many are running out of water and supplies, and river […]
Along with air and water pollution, and the constant pumping of carbon dioxide, humans managed to add light pollution to their portfolio of environmental disaster. 1. […]
Four minerals — lithium, cobalt, copper and nickel — will be the basis of the energy transition. As with other natural resources, supply is limited, but […]
Mandatory carbon emissions reporting has either been introduced or soon will be in major travel markets around the world. As from next year, the European Union […]