Paris Mayor Unveils Plan ​To Restrict Traffic And Pedestrianise City Centre

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has unveiled plans to restrict traffic in the French capital and pedestrianise the city centre in an attempt to halve the number of privat...

Mining For Smartphone Metals Could Kill Rare And Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures

Last March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association exploration vessel Okeanos made a remarkable discovery while surveying the deep sea floor off of Hawaii. In the...

Stephen Hawking's Latest PSA Takes On 'Diet Tips'

Stephen Hawking, while a bona fide genius, is also the type of friend who regularly tells it like it is, even when you kind of wish he wouldn’t. Earlier this month, h...

How Thousands of Children In Pune Prevented Over 50 Tonnes Of Plastic From Reaching The Sea

Scientists have warned about the dangers of plastic pollution and microplastics in the environment for a while now. However, most people still aren’t convinced of the...

Pillar Of Strength: Meet Triveni Acharya, A Woman Who Has Been Fighting Sex-Traffickers Since 1993

In 2007, Trivani Acharya spent sleepless nights trying to track down two girls who had disappeared after expressing their desire to be rescued from the field of sex trade. ...

Disturbing Images Show The Extent Of Delhi's Extreme Pollution Emergency

Delhi, the capital city of India and home to 25 million residents, is in the midst of an “extreme pollution event.” In other words the city has been overrun wit...

Wind farms might be killing many more bats than we realize

It’s no secret that wind power has experienced a boom in recent years, as demand for renewable energy sources grows. But while the technology is adept at helping curb...

Planet Earth 2 Answered A Question: Who Will Win A Fight, A Crocodile Or A Jaguar

There seems to be one dramatic moment in Planet Earth II each week that becomes the talking point of the episode. In week one it was the marine iguana chase, in two it was ...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...