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

Redirecting small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report Damian CarringtonLast modified on Thu 1 Aug 2019 11.18 BST Switching just some of the huge subsidies supporting fossil fuels to renewables would unleash a runaway clean energy revolution, according to a new report, significantly cutting the carbon emissions that are driving the

The newly launched Cycling Infrastructure Database – which locates more than 240,000 pieces of cycling infrastructure in London – is said to be the largest in the world, according to TfL. Thanks to the database, all riders will be able to set off on their cycle journey knowing what to expect, in terms of protected