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As aviation struggles to emerge from the historic, pandemic-driven downturn, another longer-term challenge already looms. Concern about air travel's contribution to climate change threatens to curtail growth of an industry that has expanded steadily for decades, shrinking the world for travelers and connecting the global economy.

QC and author Ross Macfarlane Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer is the debut novel from Ross Macfarlane, QC, a featured author at this years Aye Write literary festival. ​ Already well known to readers of ​the Evening News and ​The Scotsman​, Macfarlane introduced Kane ​and ​Mr Horse in a series of ​short stories in the papers and reveals that the origins of his unlikely double-act lie in his love of Charles Dickens. The Senior Advocate, who lives in the New Town, recalls,...

Stephen Ward, Oregon State University CENTER OF ATTENTION: Oregon State University is home to the Global Hemp Innovation Center, and will be the host of a virtual event covering a range of topics related to the crop. Oregon State University is hosting the National Hemp Symposium in February. Jan 29, 2021 Just where is the hemp industry going? What are the market opportunities for this new crop? Those are questions that will be addressed at the first-ever National Hemp...

SEATTLE (AP) — Environmentalists teamed with Native Americans, ranchers and even...

A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Robert McClure, executive director of InvestigateWest, is a veteran newspaper reporter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. SHARES Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Wash. in 2016 — part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to Californ...

The Ghosts of Christmas Past by Ross Macfarlane Ross Macfarlane © Illustration: Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane Christmas memories? Did I ever tell you about the time that I nearly killed my father? It was Christmas Eve, 1967. I was nine. I was walking with my mum and dad along the street. And as we neared home, my dad and I were playing a game. Side-by-side, we were playfully kicking each other’s legs from behind. A great game, and I was chortling away every time I delivered ...