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Ekaterina Abramova, Улица Северная, 2Б, Kyiv (2026)

12/09/2022

YAKIMA, Wash. — The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid central Washington know what it’s like to fight over water, just like their counterparts along the Colorado River are fighting now. They know what it’s like to be desperate, while drought, climate change, population growth and agriculture shrink water supplies to crisis levels.

They understand the acrimony among the seven Colorado Basin states, unable to agree on a plan for deep cuts in water use that the federal government has demanded to stave off disaster.

But a decade ago, the water managers of the Yakima Basin tried something different. Tired of spending more time in courtrooms than at conference tables, and faced with studies showing the situation would only get worse, they hashed out a plan to manage the Yakima River and its tributaries for the next 30 years to ensure a stable supply of water.

11/09/2022

People are being advised not to swim at six beaches in Sussex after sewage was released into the sea.

The Environment Agency issued the alert as it blamed the problem on heavy rain during overnight storms.

Rainfall can overwhelm pipes, and in such cases water companies are allowed to discharge raw sewage into rivers and the sea to protect homes.

This pollution is "short term" and not expected to last more than 72 hours, the agency said.

The beaches affected include Hastings, Pelham Beach, Bexhill, Lancing, Worthing, Bognor Regis and Felpham.

07/09/2022

P ossible evidence of porridge-making in the Western Isles 4,000 years ago has been found on pottery recovered from the bottom of lochs.

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, analysed well-preserved pieces of pots recovered from the sites of Neolithic crannogs.

Crannogs were houses constructed on artificial islands in lochs.

C hemical analysis of pottery from four sites on Lewis identified traces of wheat and milk - suggesting the pots were used for cooking porridge, gruel or stews.

T he findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

31/08/2022

"It's just an absolutely stunning portrait of an Apollo astronaut in 1969, apparently almost looking up in wonder through the window," Andy explains.

"In reality, it's even better than that because McDivitt is actually in the process of undertaking the docking, and the stakes were very high. This was the first time we'd had humans in a spacecraft incapable of getting them home, because they were testing the lunar module and it didn't have a heatshield. So, if they didn't make this docking, they couldn't have come back. It's an incredibly precious moment, an intense moment, a historic moment."

Andy's had to become a student of light and colour. This has involved talking to the astronauts to mine their first-hand impressions. He's also trawled through the hours of mission voice recordings, to pick up any observational details at the time the pictures were taken. He understands the tricks and quirks.

24/08/2022

Model Ellie Jolliffe says she was shocked at the amount of waste she saw when working on modelling jobs, in particular for e-commerce companies.

"I've been on shoots where there are boxes and boxes of deadstock - clothes which are no longer on sale. They've never been worn. No-one wants to buy them. Tonnes of unused clothing goes to waste."

The 20-year-old Londoner began studying sustainability. She found herself queuing for castings while reading books on the environmental and human impact of fashion.

"I figured out pretty quickly that I needed to lay down some boundaries in terms of who I'd work with," she says.

She also realised she had to change her own habits.

"I would often do cheap fast fashion orders, especially before events," she says. "A lot of the clothes I bought then are still sitting in my wardrobe, unused."

Now, Ms Jolliffe buys second-hand clothes from eBay, charity shops or kilo sales.

17/08/2022

Aluminium is the last of our five main emitters - though it produces significantly less CO2 than cement or steel.

That's partly because the energy needed to produce aluminium from bauxite rock is so huge that major firms have located where renewable power is plentiful and cheap, in places such as Iceland, with its energy from geothermal and hydropower.

The industry also says more than 95% of the aluminium produced is recycled because it's so valuable. But even that requires high temperatures - so, in Dortmund, Germany, they're resurrecting an invention that's more than 100 years old.

It's a machine that takes in aluminium chips, then warms them and compresses them though a sort of giant toothpaste nozzle, to produce a tube of re-formed aluminium - at a fraction of the emissions of normal recycling.

10/08/2022

Environmental groups say the prolonged dry spell is having a "serious" impact on wildlife in rivers.

With rivers already under pressure from pollution and use for drinking water, they say the looming drought is adding to the strain.

Chalk streams, which support iconic species such as the salmon, kingfisher and otter, are of particular concern, according to the Rivers Trust.

Only 200 exist globally, 85% of which are in southern and eastern England.

"This is our Barrier Reef or our Amazon rainforest; it's our unique contribution to global wildlife and biodiversity," said Christine Colvin of the Rivers Trust.

She said some small chalk streams were starting to dry up, while larger rivers were experiencing low flows.

"The wildlife here is already stressed as a result of the hotter temperatures and their habitat is shrinking as the water levels are getting lower and lower," she added. "We don't want them to go any lower than they are now."

19/07/2022

While the hailstorm – caused by strong updrafts of cloud high in the atmosphere – was unusual in its severity, it was mild compared to a hailstorm that struck Calgary in Canada in June 2020. Hailstones the size of tennis balls caused damage to at least 70,000 homes and vehicles, destroyed crops and left the area facing a C$1.2bn (US$940m/£720m) repair bill. The 20-minute hailstorm was one of the country's most costly weather events.

And climate change is altering the pattern of hailstorms. In Texas, Colorado and Alabama the records for largest hailstone have been broken in the last three years, reaching sizes of up to 16cm (6.2 inches) in diameter. In 2020, Tripoli, the capital of Libya, was struck by hailstones nearly 18cm (7.1in) across.

While giant hailstones – classed as those with a diameter greater than 10cm (3.9in) – are extremely rare, they are an indicator and hail damage in the US now averages more than $10bn (£7.6bn) a year.

But why might global warming be causing an increase in the amount of ice falling from the sky? And are their limits to just how big a hailstone can grow?

14/07/2022

Chatting in Juana's kitchen, I took in everything I could: how she cooks without electricity or a stove; her rows of dishes made from barro (red terracotta clay); and the deep stone pit in the middle of the room where she was preparing a huge pot of nixtamal, corn kernels processed in a specialized way to make tortillas de maíz. Excited about the new knowledge of my ancestry, I asked her where I could go to learn more about my P'urhépecha heritage. She stirred the food and gave my uncle a look of authority as she told him in Spanish, "Take her to Pátzcuaro."

A day later, we were in the Lake Pátzcuaro basin – me, my uncle, aunts and cousins, staring in awe at these monuments that our ancestors had built to honour deities like their sun god, Curicaueri.

Between the 14th and early 16th Centuries, the P'urhépechas dominated western Mexico with an estimated population of more than one million; Tzintzuntzan was their capital, where the irecha, or ruler, lived. (The Aztecs, meanwhile, ruled in Central Mexico, and the P'urhépecha empire prevented them from amassing territory to the north and west.)

05/07/2022

Accomplished pastry chef Mame Sow, who was born in Dakar, Senegal, before relocating to New York as a teenager, is the creative mind behind Alkebulan's Shoebox Bakery. Her signature dessert and love letter to Senegal, "Gateau Dakar", a vanilla cake with a baobab mousse and hibiscus jam and glaze is infused with flavours that, she says, "make me feel at home when I'm not there". Sow admires Malonga's work and the fact that he is not only bringing African cuisine to the forefront but doing so in a sustainable way. "People always assume African cuisine is heavy," she said. "But it is one of the healthiest cuisines in the world. We are using what we locally source. We make our own spice mixes, everything is fresh." She said that people are taking notice of African cuisine and that it is set to be the next biggest thing in the culinary world.

Although just at the dawn of his career in Africa, Malonga has already made waves in the wider culinary world. As a recipient of numerous awards, including being nominated in the Best Chef Awards and making the 50 Next Champions of Change list, he has quickly risen to the top of his field. He founded Chefs in Africa to bring attention to African gastronomy and provide an educational platform for future chefs on the continent, and offers opportunities for chefs from around the world to train with him at his "innovation lab" at Meza Malonga. He also hopes to have a far-reaching impact in rural communities where he hires farmers and facilitates development in tourism.

28/06/2022

How does the portrayal of 'The King' in Baz Luhrmann's new biopic compare to the reality? Kaleem Aftab explores the complex debate around Presley, civil rights and cultural appropriation, or assimilation.

Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, which was released last week, is an immensely entertaining look at the life and times of Elvis Presley, made with all the razzmatazz and whiplash-inducing camera pans that one would expect from the acclaimed director of Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge. The story is narrated from the perspective of Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks. Parker is portrayed as an unreliable narrator, who helped Elvis go from a poor background to become the "King of rock 'n' roll".
Hanks's Parker is a savvy businessman who, alongside Sam Phillips (Josh McConville) of Sun Records, sees in Elvis a musician who can bring rock 'n' roll, a sound developing in black underground clubs, to the mainstream US.

Warning: This article contains language some readers may find offensive

Luhrmann shows how Elvis turned songs – including Hound Dog, initially performed by Big Mama Thornton, and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's blues classic That's All Right – into Billboard chart hits. Elvis was renowned as a white singer who "sounded black". Commentators at the time said that he borrowed some of his infamous performance techniques from black musicians; his gyrating hips became the talk of the nation earning him the nickname Elvis the Pelvis.

21/06/2022

From clunky Dutch workwear to controversial fashion favourite, Daisy Woodward explores why the distinctive wooden-soled shoe is a symbol of now.

The clog has long ranked among the world's most divisive footwear. Beau Brummell, the original dandy and arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England, is said to have had "a perfect abhorrence" of the protruding and protective wooden-soled shoe, according to his biographer, while 1970s Swedish pop sensations ABBA were such fervent fans that they started their own clog line.

"No clogs, please," stiletto pioneer and clogophobe Christian Louboutin pleaded on the Fat Mascara podcast in September 2016, just days before British designer Christopher Kane unveiled his groundbreaking spring/summer 2017 collaboration with Crocs: geode-encrusted versions of the rubbery clogs formerly associated with gardening grandmothers. Then Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri launched the Diorquake clog, an ode to 1960s sling-backs, officially galvanising the shoe's 21st-Century high-fashion renaissance.

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