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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Belgian manufacturer Cowboy has just launched its third e-bike model, Cross. The newest addition to the collection is supposed to be an all-road option and should […]
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, […]
All three European institutions, the Council, Parliament and Commission, have signed today, 3 April, the European Cycling Declaration, an initiative recognising cycling as a fully-fledged mode […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]