Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has announced a limited-edition Radiant Red Epiphone guitar and his first Artist Signature amplifier with Marshall. The new Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior has been developed with the musician and offers a bright red version of the stripped-back guitar model that has helped define his sound for more than two…
Northumberland County Council received the most Green Flags in the region with 14. The parks and spaces which received the awards included: Alexandra Park (Cramlington), Astley Park, Bolam Lake Country Park, Carlisle Park, Castle Vale Park and Coronation Park, Doctor Pit Park, Druridge Bay Country Park, Eastwoods Park, Flagstaff Park, Hexham Parks, Hirst Park, Plessey…
Liz and Robert McDade own New Orleans’ Great American Alligator Museum, a free museum where visitors can see alligator fossils, paintings – and a couple of live residents. Here’s how they run a unique tourist attraction, and keep their energy up in a party town. What is your morning routine? Robert McDade: I’m an early…
I would like to know why we build solar farms over green space, when we could just put them over massive car parks as a popular current internet meme suggests. Chris, Middlesbrough Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply Sure … and how about mandating that data centres put them on their roofs? Come to…
The nanobubblers had to go. It was early June, and the Trump administration was planning an event at the Lincoln Memorial on June 12 to promote President Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship birthday celebration at the White House. Dotted around the perimeter of the memorial’s Reflecting Pool were the nanobubblers, the temporary water-purification machines meant to…
Reporting Highlights Draining the Deschutes: During a historic drought, half of Central Oregon’s lifeblood river was diverted to a wealthy agricultural region that got a lot more water than its plants could drink. Suffering Farms: These water-rich landowners grew mostly grass and pasture for landscaping and grazing while water-starved farmers downstream fallowed fields of commercial…
A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence. That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them. That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool…
President Trump wanted the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial to look pristine. Photosynthesis had other plans. Days after the Trump administration completed a $14.2 million project to coat the Reflecting Pool’s concrete floor with dark blue waterproofing material, clumps of algae dotted the surface on Sunday and Monday, giving parts of the pool a…
The defining issue of Thursday’s local elections, feedback from doorsteps suggests, will be the UK’s soaring cost of living. But voters should be told about the links between inflation and the effects of fossil fuels and the climate crisis – or the remedies they choose – may make the situation worse, green campaigners have warned….
Another week, another attack on British Jews; and rather than synagogues being petrol-bombed in the middle of the night, now it is ordinary Jews being stabbed in broad daylight. It’s been described as this country’s biggest national security emergency for almost a decade by the UK’s terrorism watchdog. Finding a solution will mean some hard…
