Environmental journalist Peter Schwartzsrein after travelling to more than thirty countries, offers a series of dismal examples of how drought, heat and other extremes are exacerbating conflict. In Iraq he finds that farmers whose crop had failed amid shrinking rains, and who had lost communal land to Baghdad businessmen, were more likely to support Isis than those near rivers who could maintain good harvests. In some region that seemed to join the Jihadis at roughly three times the rate of counterparts living near rivers. His travels in Bangladesh, Africa and other climate battered region reveal further pressures but also offer … Continue reading Conflicts simmering amid global warming

Around 200,000 prospectyive British Airways passengers whose plans have been torn uyp due to dealys to the deliveery of engines and parts from Rolls Royce to British Airways. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at short notice. Routes served by the Airbus 380 have been particularly hit, with repeated cancellations or substitutions of smaller aircraft the latter happened with last Saturday’s round-trip to Boston. British Airways also faces shortages in its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet. In a bid to reduce the number of short-notice cancellations, the airline is freeing up the equivalent of three long-hauyl wide-bodied planes each day between … Continue reading BA cancels several long-haul flight short notice