Removal

The man made flood that miraculously saved our heroes at the end of O Brother Where Art Thou were an actual occurrence in the 19th and 20th century — and a fairly common one at that — as river valleys across the American West were dammed up and drowned out at the altar of economic progress and electrification. Such was the case with Washington State's Elwha river in the 1910s. Its dam provided the economic impetus to develop the Olympic Peninsula but also blocked off nearly 40 miles of river from the open ocean,…

Google plans to initiate a mass removal process, deleting numerous inactive Gmail accounts. Renowned as one of the world's most widely used email services, Google's Gmail boasts features like AI-generated…

Leading professional services firm, PwC Nigeria, has underscored the transformative opportunity for Nigeria’s oil and gas downstream sector following the removal of fuel subsidy. The organisation provided that insight at a press conference held Wednesday in Lagos to discuss the outlook for the downstream sector post-subsidy era. Commenting, Pedro Omontuemhen, Partner & Africa Oil and Gas Leader, PwC Nigeria, who was represented by Cyril Azobu, Partner & Mining Leader, noted that the policy allows…

Leading professional services firm, PwC Nigeria, has underscored the transformative opportunity for Nigeria’s oil and gas downstream sector following the removal of fuel subsidy. It made this assertion at a press conference held Wednesday in Lagos to discuss the outlook for the downstream sector post-subsidy era. Commenting, Pedro Omontuemhen, Partner & Africa Oil and Gas Leader, PwC Nigeria, who was represented by Cyril Azobu, Partner & Mining Leader, noted that the policy allows companies to confront…

It has been an exciting 3-day period for Twitter, which is now known as X, as it completed its rebranding exercise by changing the company logo, getting an x.com redirection to Twitter, and planning big moves for a future ‘super-app'. But while the changes were easy to make online, the company struggled to do the same in the real world. As the microblogging platform's San Francisco headquarters began removing the old logo (instead of blowtorching them as Elon Musk promised), police showed up at the site to temporarily…

Twitter is having an interesting day, first with the official changeover to the branding as X and now with San Francisco Police having stopped the removal of the Twitter HQ sign halfway through the process. If you’ve spent any amount of time on the site today then you’ve probably already seen the new logo. Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend that Twitter would be re-branded. The new name is now X and today set those changes in stone. At first it was just the disappearance of the iconic bird logo. Which, by the way, was…

Dusty visible in the sunset, off the coast of Peru. Credit: Jan-Berend Stuut (NIOZ) A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explores the effects of Saharan dust clouds on atmospheric methane. Its findings have potentially far-reaching implications for understanding the global methane budget and reasons behind the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane.…

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) on Monday said the country’s daily consumption of petrol has drastically reduced following the removal of subsidy by the Federal Government. The daily consumption figure now stands at 46.38 million litres, down from the 65 million litres per day before the cut in subsidy. The Chief Executive, NMDPRA, Ahmed Farouk, disclosed this during a stakeholders meeting with oil and gas downstream operators in Lagos. He said that the figure…

The startup investment climate has been somewhat grim of late. And despite ever-mounting evidence of approaching catastrophe, financing of climate tech has also suffered, with venture funding down 40% in H1 2023. However, there are some rays of hope shimmering on the horizon.  With less money available, it is perhaps understandable that investors (even the Earth-conscious kind) want to back founders with a proven track record. One such is Eamon Jubbawy.  Having co-founded successful AI-powered…

Emiliania huxleyi, a single-celled marine phytoplankton. Storing excess atmospheric CO2 in the ocean may help mitigate climate change, but the potential biological effects have yet to be explored. Gately et al. investigate the effect of ocean alkalinity enhancement, a process that sequesters carbon by increasing ocean alkalinity through limestone-inspired mineral addition. The growth rate and elemental ratios of two important types of phytoplankton,…