A Sustainable Life: How to keep your home warm during very cold weather (on a budget) – and avoid dangerous heating ‘hacks’
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARI MARTISKAINEN, a professor of energy and society at the University of Sussex in the UK, provides some tips for keeping warm at home at a time of rising power bills…
Cubans bundle up against cold as temperatures plunge, winds roar
Havana, CubaReuters Cubans bundled up in heavy jackets, hats and gloves and shuttered their homes on Monday as near-record cold and strong winds slammed the balmy Caribbean island more accustomed to bright sun and sultry trade winds. The small town of Bainoa, east of Havana, felt temperatures plunge to just three degree Celsius early Monday […]
Goats, sheep and livelihoods lost to floods and cold in northern Kenya
North Horr, KenyaReuters The carcasses of goats and sheep strewn across the scrubland of northern Kenya are testament to the devastation wrought by the once-in-a-generation floods that have hit the region. In just one area of Marsabit County, herders lost around 20,000 goats and sheep last week after the torrential rain, Roba Koto, the top […]