by Agency Reporter | Feb 21, 2023 | Briefing
SCIENTISTS HAVE warned that deep sea mining could be a “significant risk to ocean ecosystems” with “long lasting and irreversible” impacts, including risks to globally endangered species, like blue whales. Greenpeace Research Laboratories, based at the University of...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 20, 2023 | Briefing
THE WORLD Its entering a more difficult stage of the climate and ecological crisis, where its symptoms are drawing attention away from efforts to tackle its root causes, according to a new report published by the IPPR and Chatham House think tanks. Huge resources are...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 20, 2023 | Briefing
ALMOST a quarter of a million children in England are missing out on free school meals worth nearly £500 per child due to the lack of an automated sign-up system, councils have warned. This is money which under-pressure families could be spending on other essentials,...
by Staff Writer | Feb 19, 2023 | Briefing
JAMES CROFT HAS BECOME the first humanist to be appointed to lead a chaplaincy, pastoral, and spiritual care team at a UK university. He has been appointed to the role of ‘University Chaplain and Lead Faith Advisor’ at the University of Sussex. Humanists UK has hailed...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 18, 2023 | Briefing
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY must take action to stop systematic and deliberate housing demolition and sealing, arbitrary displacement and forced evictions of Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, UN experts said in a statement released on 13 February. In the...
by Staff Writer | Feb 18, 2023 | Briefing
INSPECTORS returning to HMP Exeter, in England, were so concerned by the high rates of suicide and self-harm, inadequate care for vulnerable new arrivals and oversight of health care, that they have issued an Urgent Notification within days of completing the...
