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Tuesday 15 December 2020 Every year, the world adds 11.2 billion tonnes of solid waste to our combined rubbish pile, according to UN figures – the decaying organic parts of which contribute five per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. We need to find a way to reduce waste, and the answer could be moving to a circular economy, which seeks to design out wastage by making use of byproducts and reusing materials. “The circular economy is an excellent way to deal with many of the major cris...

Share Most readers want the same basic elements from their crime fiction: an engaging plot; enough momentum to sustain the plot; well-developed characters; some misdirection; and a satisfying ending. This year my top five favourites not only had all the essential elements, they all included a strong sense of place, a pinch of dark humour, or both. Maybe the lockdown situation had me longing for a different setting and the gloomy state of the world required some twisted and humorous crime readin...

London ranks sixth most expensive city in the world Londons financial hubs have not come to a complete standstill (Getty) London is the sixth most expensive location to live in the world, a report by ECA International revealed. The latest Cost of Living report found that London is so expensive because of high rental accommodation costs. The strength of the pound also pushed London, along with other UK cities such as Edinburgh and Manchester, up the list. The pound has rebounde...

RocketSTEM The low solar corona as viewed in extreme ultraviolet light. Bright regions are where the most energetic solar storms are born. An eruption in action can be seen in the bottom-left. Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite In astronomy, we have a common saying: “good luck, and clear skies”. For an eclipse chaser like me, this is especially important. We have two minutes and no second chance – one small cloud can spoil everything. Thousands of tourists turn up ...

Icelanders haven’t heard the last of the weather despite the long expected summer around the corner in Iceland. The passed few good days with bright sun and stillness seem to be over for now as winter hasn’t quite left the island according to the Iceland Meteorological Office. Reykjavik will have temperatures just above zero over the weekend with rain and sleet with the wind lingering around ten meters pr. second. Heavy snowfall is expected in the northeast part of Iceland and strong gale a...

Michael Douglas, Christoph Waltz to Star in Reagan & Gorbachev Limited Series Steve Granitz/WireImage; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The Paramount TV Studios project is set to be taken out to buyers in the near future. Michael Douglas and Christoph Waltz are set to play Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in a limited series from Paramount TV Studios. The project, which the studio will be taking out to potential buyers in the near future, is based on the book  Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight H...

Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round swept the European Film Awards on Saturday (December 12), winning four awards including best film, director, screenplay and actor for Mads Mikkelsen. Scroll down for full list of winners Accepting the best screenplay prize via video link, sat alongside co-writer Tobias Lindholm, Danish filmmaker Vinterberg said: “In a time of confinement, financial crisis and death, our attempt to make a life-affirming film has somehow succeeded.” Best actor winner Mikke...

Three years after launching his drone startup, Flytrex, Yariv Bash made a pivot. What started in 2013 as a supplier for drone manufacturers and hobbyists became a delivery service provider. “We realized that the killer application for drones was going to be backyard delivery,” Bash says. Soon after, the Israel-based company became one of the first commercial drone operators, delivering groceries and other goods in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo/Flytrex Since then it’s added small-scale test ro...

Share: This Mad Desire’s new album  American Dream has been described as containing “timeless songs designed for the times”.  It includes collaborations with hit producer Mark Zubek (Zedd Records, Toronto) as well as Dan Konopka (OK Go, Los Angeles). Recorded over two years, many of the basic tracks were recorded at the Hamilton Public Library’s Dundas branch, which has a music studio in the children’s department. As there is a community-minded focus to the album, this added to ...

Brexit fishing row evokes memories of cod wars with Iceland Haroon Siddique © PA A Royal Navy frigate collides with the Icelandic gunboat Thor in 1976. News that four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1 January to help protect UK fishing waters in the event of a no-deal Brexit has evoked memories of the “cod wars” - a battle over fishing grounds off Iceland that lasted almost 20 years until it was resolved in the mid-1970s. The first cod war, a phrase coined by F...