Readers Digest UK - December 2021

magazine Octane, and has just published a collection of his essays from the same, entitled Age Of Combustion. It’s an age which ...

80 • DECEMBER 2021 disposable transport. You generally don’t care which badge is attached to the boot of the taxi that picks you ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 81 the delayed installation of charging infrastructure in the EU. The EU Commission quickly needs to take action ...

David Twohig 82 • DECEMBER 2021 THE ELECTRIC REVOLUTION: WHAT'S NEXT? fighting climate change are at risk.” William Todts, execu ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 83 READER’S DIGEST Mercedes engineer said so long ago, quite a lot like the cars of today. “It’s a huge challeng ...

Visiting Canada’s Northwest Territories in search of a primeval encounter with nature By Sallie Tisdale from Harper’s CHASING TH ...

The aurora borealis lights up the sky near Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories 85 ̧ ...

86 • DECEMBER 2021 CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS B y the time I finish dressing and walk into the lobby of the Explorer Hotel in Y ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 87 half of the sky, brightening until it is a river of pearl. Céline and I lie back on a pile of packed snow, wa ...

88 • DECEMBER 2021 with a population of roughly 20,000. Until 1960, the whole region was inaccessible by road, and until about t ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 89 visiting space scientist from NASA, gave a lecture on the aurora’s physics. She told us how glad she was to b ...

90 • DECEMBER 2021 lights, which they call aqsarniit. They are said to be the spirits of the dead playing football, usually with ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 91 the end, viewing is a local problem. Maybe you need a treasure to trade, good luck, good karma, or a blessing ...

A fter being cooped up during the pandemic, my husband and I yearned to get out to some rugged wide-open spaces and the Yorkshir ...

Another day we drove over to Arnside on the estuary of the Kent River and walked along a path on the beach. The tide was out and ...

OLD GRIFFITH PARK ZOO Los Angeles 94 Ever wondered what a zoo is like from the animals’ perspective? Griffith Park, a 4,310-acre ...

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However, this winter seems to be arriving with more vengeance than usual. There’s the flu and the implications of coronavirus su ...

PARTNERSHIP PROMOTION Urgent appeal HELP OLDER PEOPLE THROUGH THE COLD, LONELY WINTER MONTHS People like Frank have very simple ...

Feet up thinking Around ten per cent of heat loss in an average home comes from the ground floor, and the Energy Saving Trust e ...