The landlocked East African country of Rwanda is due to become the potential home of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants in the UK as part of a controversial scheme negotiated by Home Secretary Priti Patel. In a speech discussing the government’s new migration and economic development partnership, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced, “anyone entering the…
Science
Turning Green Press Release: Climate Change Action Survey Seeks Gen Z Student Perspectives
Environmental nonprofit Turning Green has launched a global survey on climate change action, seeking input from tens of thousands of college and university students. The survey will assess student knowledge of climate change and ideas for solutions-based climate action. Titled “Anxiety to Action,” the survey in part stems from the ideas of Stephen Kirk, a…
Science
Space junk concern grows as rocket crashes into the Moon
Pollution on Earth is a problem we’re all familiar with, but what about the ever-growing collection of junk orbiting outside of our planet? This month a rocket crashed onto the Moon’s surface, making it the first instance of an unintentional impact on the neighbouring natural satellite. This event has led to increased worry from space…
Travel
Tales from Back Home – British Virgin Islands
“Nature’s Little Secret” is the defining tagline of my childhood. It’s also on license plates, t-shirts and nearly every tourist-trap merchandise you can find in the Virgin Islands (or BVI for short). I grew up on the island of Tortola, the biggest in the archipelago, although at just 24 square miles, this isn’t much to…
Creative Writing
To you: the storm, the eye and aftermath
Dear Mamie, I’ve been thinking a lot about 2010, and the hurricane we’d survived. I don’t know if you can pick it out between your memories of the many storms before and the worser ones that came. I hope you can. It was our first storm together as a family, right after Malik was born….
Features
How to apologise, properly
Let’s say you’ve messed up– you spilled a secret you swore to protect, forgot an anniversary, or broke your mum’s priceless family heirloom. I am, sadly, guilty of all three. In either scenario, you’ve upset one party by breaking an element of trust and you’re now faced with trying to ameliorate the situation with an…
Science
Bizarre Science: Getting busy with beans, an alternative aphrodisiac
You may be more familiar with things such as oysters, alcohol and chocolate being marketed as typical Valentine’s Day cuisine, but could you be convinced to purchase a can of beans on the special day? Despite their fame (or notoriety) in stereotypical British cuisine, baked beans are in fact not a national dish. However, this…
Climate Change, Science
Interview with conservation group WildEast’s co-founder, Hugh Somerleyton DL
“We pledge, we educate, we grow”– a simple but profound summary of the pillars of conservation organisation, WildEast, as provided in my interview with co-founder Hugh Somerleyton DL. Similarly to ongoing projects in regions of Brazil, Romania and even Yellowstone, USA, the eastern region of England has its own group dedicated to protecting and restoring…
Science
Could farm animals solve the organ donor crisis?
For many who spend years on organ donor lists, the long wait may soon be coming to an unusual end. Thanks to a common farm animal– the pig- the medical practice of transferring tissues and organs from one species to another (xenotransplantation) has reached new levels, with an entire heart being successfully implanted. The owner…
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