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Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood.The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024…

Heading east, the rocket will surpass the speed of sound in a little over a minute. After soaring through the stratosphere, New Glenn will shut down its seven booster engines and shed its first stage a little more than 3 minutes into the flight. Twin BE-3U engines, burning liquid hydrogen, will ignite to finish the job of sending the ESCAPADE satellites toward deep space. The rocket’s trajectory will send the satellites toward a gravitationally-stable location beyond the Moon, called the L2 Lagrange point, where it will swing into a loosely-bound loiter orbit to wait for the right time to head…

Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Cocker, Outkast, Salt-N-Pepa, Soundgarden, The White Stripes, Warren Zevon and several other musical acts have officially been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The 2025 class was celebrated at the 40th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles Saturday night. The star-studded event brought musical talents spanning several generations to celebrate the inductees. The evening kicked off with a tribute to the late Sly Stone featuring Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Questlove, Leon Thomas, Beck, Maxwell and Flea of the Red Hot…

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue responds to questions during a news conference at the conclusion of the National Football League’s owners spring meeting in Denver in 2006. Tagliabue died on Sunday. Ed Andrieski/AP hide caption toggle caption Ed Andrieski/AP NEW YORK — Paul Tagliabue, who helped bring labor peace and riches to the NFL during his 17 years as commissioner but was criticized for not taking stronger action on concussions, died Sunday from heart failure at 84 years old. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tagliabue’s family informed the league of his death in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Tagliabue, who had developed Parkinson’s…

A woman poses for a photograph in an undisclosed location in Shire on October 11, 2024. She was originally from Welkait and told AFP that at the beginning of the conflict in Tigray in November 2020, she had been beaten, tortured and raped by seven men with different military uniforms, Ethiopian and Eritrean. The two-year war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region left hundreds of thousands of people dead, more than one million still displaced and cost more than $20 billion in damage, until a deal in November 2022 was meant to end the bloodshed. Among the many barbaric acts inflicted on…

Betty Harford, who made several appearances in “Dynasty” and “The Paper Chase,” died on Nov. 2. She was 98. Harford’s death was confirmed by her friend Wendy Mitchell, who shared the news on Facebook. Harford appeared as the secretary for law school professor Charles W. Kingsfield on the CBS drama “The Paper Chase.” She played Ms. Nottingham for 41 episodes of the series, which ran for one season from 1978 to 1979 on CBS. “The Paper Chase” ran for three more seasons on Showtime from 1983 to 1986. For nine years, Harford acted in “Dynasty,” playing the recurring role of…

A pair of AFC contenders clash when the Pittsburgh Steelers meet the Los Angeles Chargers on ‘Sunday Night Football.’ Pittsburgh is coming off a 27-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts in Week 9, while Los Angeles topped Tennessee 27-20. The Steelers (5-3), who lead the AFC North by two games, are 2-1 on the road this year. The Chargers (6-3), who are second in the AFC West, are 3-2 on their home field. Chargers starting offensive tackle Joe Alt (ankle) was put on injured reserve after going down last week against the Titans. Kickoff from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., is…

Armed group piles pressure on the landlocked Sahel country and its military government.Fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda have blocked fuel deliveries to Mali’s capital for two months, bringing the city of Bamako to a standstill.They’ve sealed off the highways that tankers use to transport fuel from neighbouring Senegal and the Ivory Coast. This has put pressure on the landlocked Sahel country and its military government.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe scale of the blockade, and its impact, show just how much influence the armed group wields. So, are al-Qaeda-linked fighters trying to take power in Mali? And what does…

Scientists have reported the discovery of the first in a promising new class of antibiotics — and the find was unexpected, as they hadn’t set out to find new drugs.The new antibiotic compound shows promising activity against drug-resistant infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterococcus faecium, germs that are notorious for causing resistant infections in hospitalized patients.The discovery of the novel molecule, called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, was reported Oct. 27 the Journal of the American Chemical Society and “can be considered the first in a new class” of antibiotics, Lona Alkhalaf and Greg Challis, chemists and lead authors of…

This week, TravelSmart is bringing you a taste of Louisiana. Global Travel Editor Annabel Grossman shares some of the best places to visit, from the jazz-filled streets of New Orleans to Lafayette’s wildlife-filled Atchafalaya Basin.Here in London, chef Tom Clements reveals how he recreates the flavours of this southern state in his pub Plaquemine Lock, as he pulls together a Cajun-style gumbo and explains how cuisine is inextricably tied into the way of life in Louisiana. Watch TravelSmart on Independent TV.