Fiona Kolbinger, 24, rode from Bulgaria to France in 10 days, two hours and 48 minutes Helen PiddTue 6 Aug 2019 15.13 BST A German cancer researcher has become the first woman to win one of the world’s toughest cycling races in her first ultra-distance event. Fiona Kolbinger, 24, from Dresden, said she was “so […]

Netherlands-based cargo bike manufacturer Babboe has donated a Babboe Dog-E bike, a cargo bike specially designed to transport dogs, to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, in partnership with James Middleton. The bikes are designed as the “ideal solution for dog lovers”, allowing riders to transport their pets with ease especially if they are older or

Opinion: Citizens’ Assemblies have the power to break tribal politics PUBLISHED: 14:30 08 August 2019 Farhana Yamin and Maya de Souza feel Citizens’ Assemblies have the power to tackle climate emergency. Boris Johnson has become prime minister at a time when British democracy is going through a crisis. Parliament appears deadlocked, our politics is polarised,

Alan J Taylor 9 avril 2015, 07:32 CEST Yellow truly is the colour of cycling in the UK. The victories of Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome in the World’s biggest bike race, the Tour de France, thrust cycling into the headlines. The visit of Le Tour to England in 2014 kindled a Lycra-led euphoria

Mark Sutton7 August, 2019 In the Austrian capital of Vienna there are signs that the growing popularity of the electric scooter may lead to an increase in safe cycling infrastructure. At present, there are 7,000 of the light mobility vehicles on the streets of Vienna; Lime, Bird, Tier Mobility, Wind Mobility, Circ and Hive have

Mark Sutton5 August, 2019 The levels of dangerous particulates in the air, once again, have nosedived alongside the RideLondon route. Showing drastic improvement across all metrics, wide-ranging road closures over the weekend gave ample evidence to support the case for lowered car use in urban spaces at a time when poor air quality is said

Kerala floods turn deadly as India suffers relentless monsoonal deluge Colin DailedaAugust 9 at 2:06 PM More than three-dozen people are dead and thousands have been forced from their homes as floods ravage parts of southern India, particularly the state of Kerala, which was devastated by flooding in 2018. The floods are associated with the

Summer wildfires are nothing new in Siberia, but bigger environmental changes are afoot. Leonid BershidskyAugust 9, 2019, 6:56 PM GMT+2 Summer wildfires devouring Siberian forests are hardly unusual, but this year’s are a bigger worry than normal because clouds of smoke have reached big cities in the Asian part of Russia and because the authorities

August 9, 2019 Greta Thunberg, at age 16, has quickly become one of the most visible climate activists in the world. Her detractors increasingly rely on ad hominem attacks to blunt her influence. Thunberg gained prominence after she began skipping some days of school to protest climate inaction outside Swedish parliament. She spearheaded the school

PUBLISHED: 19:06 04 July 2019 | UPDATED: 19:06 04 July 2019 Camden Council has held the country’s first citizens assembly on climate change. The assembly was the first of three events in which a demographically representative selection of 72 Camden citizens learn about the climate crisis and propose an environmental action plan for 2020. Cllr