Jan 31, 2019
A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 300m tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries reported in a new NASA-led study of the disintegrating glacier. The findings...
Jan 30, 2019
An Aon study demonstrates that 389 natural catastrophe events in 2018 generated economic losses of $224-billion. Of that total, the Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2018 Annual Report shows that private sector and government-sponsored insurance programs...
Jan 29, 2019
A new NASA study shows that warming of the tropical oceans due to climate change could lead to a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme rain storms by the end of the century. The study team, led by Hartmut Aumann of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
Jan 28, 2019
If Africa’s leaders do not act quickly to move the continent into the 21st century, young people will leave them behind. That is the word from President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking at last week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Young people are ready...
Jan 25, 2019
Top honours were shared pretty evenly among HP Enterprise business partners last night when the vendor recognised and rewarded its channel at a gala dinner in Hyde Park. Rising to the glamorous event’s theme of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, HPE channel...
Jan 24, 2019
Jaguar Land Rover has developed a system that projects the direction of travel on to the road ahead of self-driving vehicles, to tell other road users what it is going to do next. The intelligent technology beams a series of projections on to the road to show the...
