Climate change is happening and is starting to show its teeth with regard to the surge in pandemics and natural disasters. A new study forecasts even more extreme weather events in the future due to a historically weak gulf stream attributed to global warming [1]. Even if its presence in the news has only skyrocketed in […]
When thinking about climate change, most of us imagine arctic ice caps melting; islands disappearing under rising seas; drought or even hot summer days on the beach. However, there is far more to climate change than what is perceptible, and of course these changes are felt by animals and plants too. Alterations and disruptions in […]
As all the previous articles about COVID-19 have shown, 2020 has been an impressively lousy year. Even if the emission levels have significantly dropped due to the measures to contain the pandemic, there was still room for plenty of natural disasters [1,2]. The year featured wildfires of abnormal scales in the USA, Australia, and Brazil […]
An American tradition with an unclear origin, Black Friday follows the celebration of Thanksgiving. Hundreds of shops open with sales and reductions to tempt even the scrupulous. In 2014 these sales were adopted in the UK [1] bringing similar displays of jostling and violence in long queues for limited sought after deals; images which certainly […]
