Travel 2025: A New Emphasis on Local Communities in Travel

Travel 2025: A New Emphasis on Local Communities in Travel

A recent Booking.com global survey of 31,000 travelers found that 71 percent of respondents “want to leave the places they visit better than when they arrived.” Eighty-three percent said that sustainable travel is important to them. Now, as travelers wake up to the social effects of tourism, travel businesses are responding in kind, helping visitors […]

Biochar has been underestimated, say researchers

Biochar has been underestimated, say researchers

A small handful of biochar in pellet form, produced by pyrolysis. Credit: GEUS A new study shows biochar to be far more effective at long-term carbon storage than previously thought. The study reveals critical flaws in the models used by the IPCC and European climate policymakers. Biochar—a carbon-rich material produced by pyrolyzing biomass—has long been […]

GOP leaders mull a big debt-and-funding deal with Democrats

GOP leaders mull a big debt-and-funding deal with Democrats

House and Senate GOP leaders are internally debating a possible deal with Democrats that would include government funding, California wildfire aid, a debt-limit hike and border security money, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. Senior Republicans have been privately mulling a bipartisan government funding deal for weeks now, wary that they […]

Ally Lewber Announces Split From James Kennedy

Ally Lewber Announces Split From James Kennedy

James Kennedy and Ally Lewber We’re Officially Over!!! Published January 22, 2025 5:30 PM PST | Updated January 22, 2025 7:26 PM PST Ally Lewber and James Kennedy are donezo … she just confirmed as much in the wake of his legal break in his domestic violence case. Ally confirmed the split Wednesday in a […]

Here’s a cheap UK stock that could soar while Donald Trump’s US President

Here’s a cheap UK stock that could soar while Donald Trump’s US President

Image source: Getty Images UK stocks are soaring again as confidence returns to global financial markets. Both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 have printed strong gains in recent days following Donald Trump’s return to the White House. In fact, London’s home to a multitude of shares that could benefit substantially from the Republican’s second […]

Aftershock analysis challenges world’s deepest earthquake claim

Aftershock analysis challenges world’s deepest earthquake claim

Overview of the study region. Credit: The Seismic Record (2025). DOI: 10.1785/0320240035 The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower mantle, according to a study appearing in […]