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Tackling climate change by planting trees has an intuitive appeal. They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without using expensive technology. The suggestion that you can plant trees to offset your carbon emissions is widespread. Many businesses, from those selling shoes to booze, now offer to plant a tree with each purchase, and more than 60 countries have signed up to the Bonn Challenge, which aims to restore degraded and deforested landscapes. However, expanding tree cover could affect the climate in complex ways. Using models of the Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans, we have simulated widescale future...

Violence is never far away in the historic region of Palestine, in life or in Winterbottom’s film, which pulls no punches in displaying the horrors of terrorism, with bomb blasts, indiscriminate shootings and cold-blooded murder. The audience is quickly brought up to speed with archive newsreel footage and a voiceover; our narrator is Shoshana, played by Irina Starshenbaum. The daughter of Russian Marxist Zionist Ber Borochov, she is a member of the barely-legal Haganah territorial army, an organisation founded to defend the Yishuv, the group of Jewish residents in the region living there before the establishment of the State of...

Fitness to practise committee found five charges against agency worker, including making rude gestures to girl The Beechcroft Child and Adolescent Mental Health UnitA mental health nurse found to have said “kiss my a**e” and “slap my a**e” to a vulnerable teenage patient has been hit with a suspension order by a tribunal.Eruore Augustina ‘Tina’ Obibi was working at the Beechcroft Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit run by the Belfast Trust when she allegedly made a series of inappropriate comments and gestures to the girl, identified as Patient A. Source link

Dinner plans between Matt Damon and Cillian Murphy didn’t quite go according to plan, but for good reason. In a 60 Minutes interview that aired over the weekend, Cillian reacted to his Oppenheimer co-star calling him the “worst dinner companion imaginable” while they were working on the Christopher Nolan epic together.“What he meant by that was when you’re working on a film, when you’re being the character, there’s very little room in your head for anything else,” 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley, explained to the Irish actor.Laughing, the Peaky Blinders star replied: “I’ve always been like that, I think.” “It’s...

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Tributes have been paid to two young men killed on Tuesday in a road crash in Co Limerick in which two others were injured.The four men were students at the Salesian Agricultural College in Pallaskenry, where they were studying agricultural mechanisation. They were travelling in a car that struck a wall on the N69 at Ballyengland near Askeaton at around 7.25pm.Darragh Dullea (20), from Clonakilty, Co Cork and Cillian Kirwan (19), from Piltown, Co Kilkenny, were killed in the crash. The driver and a third passenger, who are from Charleville, Co Cork and Birr, Co Offaly, were taken by ambulance...

Hawksbill turtles are critically endangered, they are found in every ocean and are the most tropical of sea turtles. Adult hawksbills have long been considered to have a close association with shallow (less than 15 metres depth) seas where coral reefs thrive. But new research my colleagues and I conducted reveals for the first time that hawksbill turtles feed at reef sites much deeper than previously thought. Young hawksbills drift in currents during their pelagic (open water) phase of their development before they move to benthic (sea bed) habitats. Hawksbills are usually seen foraging in coral reefs where their diet...

Due to his unpopularity, and not in any way due to his aptitude with young people, Hunham is left after the winter term with the ‘holdover’ students who are not going home for Christmas, and are instead stuck languishing at Barton. Hunham, given the disparaging nickname ‘Walleye’ by his pupils, has been urged by the headmaster to try and “act like a human being” for the holidays. His holding over colleague, school chef Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), is likewise a sharp critic of his acerbic ways. Source link

BREAKING | Daniel Sebastian Allen admitted three counts of murder and one of manslaughter in relation to the fatal fire in Co Fermanagh.Daniel AllenA man who killed four members of the same family in a Co Fermanagh house fire has been jailed for at least 29 years.Daniel Allen (33) was sentenced today over the deliberate blaze near Derrylin in 2018.Allen previously pleaded guilty to the murders of Sabrina Gossett (19), her 16-year-old brother Roman Gossett and her 15-month-old daughter Morgana Quinn, also known as Morgana Gossett.He denied murdering his partner Denise Gossett but admitted manslaughter by reason of a suicide pact.Mr Justice...

Nikki Haley, the last candidate standing between Donald Trump and the Republican presidential nomination, doubled down on her commitment to stay in the race beyond the primary in her home state this weekend, amid the latest round of negative polling for her campaign and a scathing new memo from Trump’s advisers.“Some of you, perhaps a few of you in the media, came here today to see if I’m dropping out of the race. Well, I’m not... I refuse to quit,” Haley said in Greensboro, South Carolina, squashing speculation that she called a last-minute press conference to announce the end of...