Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective publicdomainreview.org/essay/eugene-f… by Daisy Sainsbury

Case studies about sites part of the Very Hard to Reach premises alpha trials (in Great Britain) gov.uk/government/pub… update from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology with five additional case studies #telecoms #remoteplaces

What a major solar storm could do to our planet newyorker.com/magazine/2024/… by Kathryn Schulz #solarstorms #spaceweather

Falkland Islands dispute is causing fishing 'free-for-all' in nearby Blue Hole theguardian.com/environment/20… by Sam Meadows #overfishing #biodiversity

#Sinkholes: Why do they keep appearing in the ground? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… (UK)

The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazon newyorker.com/magazine/2024/… by Jon Lee Anderson #illegalmining

The hard lessons of Harvard's failed #geoengineering experiment technologyreview.com/2024/04/04/109… by @jtemple #solargeoengineering #climatechange #openscience Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/frank-keutsch-…

Many old books contain toxic chemicals – here's how to spot them theconversation.com/many-old-books… by Prof Mark Lorch #bookbinding #poisonbooks The Poison Book Project sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproj…

Hunt continues for missing Viking hoard artefacts bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #HerefordshireHoard #detectorist The Herefordshire Hoard: how a historic treasure find went wrong nhmf.org.uk/news/herefords… (2022) More background en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefords… + herefordshirehoard.co.uk

Should London become a 'sponge city'? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #spongecities #FCERM #SuDS #flashflooding #floodmitigation #floodrisk

Lorry thefts: Stolen cargo, stress and slashed curtains bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… (UK) National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NAVCIS) navcis.police.uk NaVCIS #freightcrime #cargotheft #supplychain

Floating Megabomb Heaves to Near the English Coast cepa.org/article/floati… #MVRuby Ruby, general cargo ship, IMO 9626390 vesselfinder.com/vessels/detail…

What the Great Gale of 1824 taught us about extreme weather gov.uk/government/new… from Environment Agency

Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… by Jonathan Amos See also this 2023 post by Dr Stuart Eves: The Curious Case of Skynet 1A – and Why It Matters gnosisnetwork.org/blog/the-curio… #Skynet1A #spacejunk #publicrecords

'Mirror life forms' may sound like science fiction, but scientists warn they could be deadly to humans and destroy the environment theconversation.com/mirror-life-fo… Confronting risks of mirror life doi.org/10.1126/scienc… + technical analysis purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036 #enantiomers

Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/… by Will Coldwell #foodtheft #foodcrime #supplychainrisk

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews theguardian.com/books/2025/jun… Poisonous books – Dangers from the past …rsity-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/02/24/poi… #bookbinding #poisonbooks #emeraldgreen

Exposure of UK building stock to five climate-related hazards gov.uk/government/pub… CS-NOW report for Department for Energy Security and Net Zero #UKhousing #proptech #climatechange #climaterisk