International activists and environmental organisations gathered outside the Norwegian Parliament on Tuesday as the vote to approve the opening for deep sea mining was passed. Against massive criticism from scientists, fishery organisations and the international community, Norway is officially moving forward with the planned opening of Arctic waters to a very controversial mining industry.
Under the original Covid lockdown imposed in the UK on March 23 2020, Boris Johnson told Brits to stay at home and avoid contact with people living in other households.
Modelling from Professor Neil Ferguson (pictured) and colleagues at Imperial College London published on March 16, 2020, predicted the NHS would be overwhelmed within weeks.
A recent controversial Johns Hopkins metanalysis reignites a discussion about the adverse consequences of lockdowns after finding they had no significant mortality benefit during the first wave of the 2020 pandemic in the United States and Europe
Conservative Bob Seely called for a debate on scientific modelling during the pandemic in which he accused forecasters of wildly inaccurate predictions leading to lockdowns.