Friday Night Ride to the Coast has been spreading the joy of night riding for almost 15 years Sam Walker Mon 5 Aug 2019 07.00 BST Participants in the Friday Night Ride to the Coast. Photograph: Courtesy of FNRttC If you missed this year’s Dunwich Dynamo, or feel that it’s a little too big, chaotic […]
By Winnie Hu Aug. 8, 2019 New York City officials have carved out plazas for pedestrians in the middle of Broadway, a storied street where cars have ferried V.I.P.s in ticker-tape parades. They have taken away more and more traffic lanes and parking spots to make room for bikes and buses. Now, officials are taking
Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. Robinson Meyer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers climate change and technology. 3:57 PM ET 1. There is no shortage of scary facts in the major new report on climate change and land, a summary of which was released today
Facebook) AUG 9 Swarm the entry to A102 in protest against the Silvertown Tunnel Extinction Rebellion Greenwich and 3 others Tomorrow at 7 AM – 9:30 AM · 20°C Rain The Angerstein Hotel 108 Woolwich Road, SE100 London, United Kingdom Extinction Rebellion Greenwich — So excited to see you all at our swarm on Friday
It would be hard to imagine a world without bicycles. They are everywhere and chances are that most or all of you reading this can or have ridden one at some point in your life. The history of this apparently simple mode of transport is a long and interesting one but the modern bicycle, as
Wed 7 Aug 2019 Humanity faces an existential crisis. Officialdom won’t act – and I could no longer stand by and just watch Just before my 57th birthday, after a lifetime of professional work, paying my taxes and obeying the law, I found myself in a police cell with a single blanket and a hard
Germany is building a car-free bicycle highway that will stretch to 62 miles, once completed. When finished, it will connect 10 German cities, including Duisburg, Bochum, and Hamm, as well as four universities. It has been built to help minimize car pollution and is projected to get 50,000 cars off the road everyday, once completed.
By Mark Kaufman2 days ago Alaska’s exceptional summer continues. The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average temperatures, warmer seas, and
Qatar, Israel and Lebanon top list of places with worst shortages, as climate crisis threatens more ‘day zeroes’ Last modified on Tue 6 Aug 2019 07.01 BST A quarter of the world’s population across 17 countries are living in regions of extremely high water stress, a measure of the level of competition over water resources,
When we meet at his converted coach house in London, his classic Dawes racer still parked hopefully in the hallway (a stroke and a triple heart bypass mean he is – currently – forbidden from cycling), Hillman is anxious we are not side-tracked by his best-known research, which challenged the supremacy of the car. Last
