Anna Tobin

Last year, for the first time, it became possible to trade water on Wall Street through futures contracts. Normally reserved for commodities like oil or precious metals, water became the latest asset to join the stock market. But how could this practice impact the planet?
The trading in the future prices of highly-prized commodities, where buyers agree to purchase an asset at a set date in the future for an agreed price, began in Japan in the seventeenth century with the trading in rice futur...

How a large Victorian house provides a striking backdrop for a young family with stunning views across to the coast

Not many people buy a kitchen before they’ve found the house to put it in, but no one who knows designer Mairead Turner and her restaurateur husband Robin Hodgson is surprised to hear this is what they did. When they fall in love with a beautiful pre-loved bargain they snap it up and work out where it’s going to go later.

“I spotted these kitchen units years ago, while on one of...

Britt Ide reveals why she was so excited to join her first international Advisory Board and how she is helping other women in the energy industry to follow in her footsteps.

Once U.S.-based chip maker NVIDIA completes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli tech company Mellanox in the next few months, Palestinian engineers contracted to work for Mellanox as reported by Reuters are set to share a $3.5 million payout.
With a shortage of engineers in Israel, the growing pool of talented Palestinian engineers is well placed to fill any gaps in Israel's burgeoning tech sector and Israeli firms are offering stock options to demonstrate to potential Palestinian contrac...

Reporting on a session at an energy conference

Overview
Mines often rely on hundreds of kilometres of pipeline to transport their assets. These long-distance pipelines are highly susceptible to abrasion due to the nature of the slurry, tailings and other rock material they carry. Left untreated, abrasion can cause cracks and leaks that are costly to repair and can cause human health risks and environmental damage.
Typically, expensive Non-Destructive Testing inspections are carried out by contractors or trained staff who manually measure ...

Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has made a breakthrough in the battle to cure motion sickness. The Tata Motors'-owned brand has pioneered a new technique that could reduce cases of motion sickness by at least 60%.
Drivers are less likely to suffer from motion sickness, but passengers are susceptible to it, so the move towards driverless cars has revved up the funding and interest in finding a cure for this unpleasant condition.
Using a variety of test vehicles and other Jaguar Land Rover f...

Overview
Oil and gas companies must safely and significantly reduce their CO₂ emissions to assist governments globally in achieving their net-zero targets – this directional change has to be balanced with the desire and requirement to satisfy global energy demands and production safety.
This innovative machine-learning software platform uses operational data, plant configurations, installed capacity, current production performance and operating model data to dynamically present contextualised...

A beautiful kitchen makeover I styled and wrote up for Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms magazine

Powering buses and trucks
Hydrogen fuel cells and electric batteries are the two main contenders to take the place of petrol and diesel in powering trucks and buses in the future, so how does each stack up?
The race is on to find the most efficient and also the most sustainable method of powering networks of passenger buses and the road haulage industry.
Our virtual Energy Innovation conference was a three-day virtual conference where more than 50 entrepreneurs, academics and experts from dif...

From melting clocks to a lobster telephone and elephants with stilt legs, Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí painted and sculpted dreamlike works with such an intense photographic realism that it begged one universal question among admirers: what on Earth is going on?

Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Dalí explored the relationship between our subconscious and our conscious minds to create an altered view of the world, blurring the lines between the actual and the imaginary (s...

Ott Vatter, managing director of the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme, which enables business people to establish and manage an EU-based company paperlessly from anywhere in the world, explains how UK businesses can benefit from the service after Brexit
Can you explain how e-Residency works?
e-Residency is an Estonian Government programme. It’s a transnational identity that is issued by the Estonian police and border guard. Estonia has had a digital identity programme for fifteen o...

Whether you’re too nervous to travel abroad, or quarantining afterwards is impossible, check out our tips for holidaying closer to home
In recent weeks, our social media feeds have started to feature friends’ foreign getaways once again. But whether you’ve decided to avoid the risks and spend your annual leave at home this summer, or chance a holiday within these shores, careful planning can still ensure your staycation is more restful than any overseas trip. It’ll feel longer as well, as you...