Nearly a century of leaded gasoline use on roads around the world has come to an end, the UN Environment Programme announced Monday, after Algerian service stations stopped selling the fuel last month.
Aug 30, 2021 CNN
Singapore-based farmer Chua Kai-Ning spends a lot of her day making sure that her animals are well fed and growing fast.
Aug 30, 2021 CNN
The US is generating more electricity than ever from wind and solar power – but often it’s not needed at the time it’s produced. Advanced energy storage technologies make that power available 24/7.
Aug 26, 2021 The Conversation
Rising temperatures and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are making farming conditions increasingly challenging and disrupting food distribution. But scientists in some of the world's driest places are coming up with solutions to…
Aug 26, 2021 CNN
The hybrid aircraft is an important step in the race to decarbonise aviation, but net-zero flights remains some way off yet
Aug 25, 2021 Positive News
People along the desert’s border are building a kind of circular plot called a tolou keur to keep the soil fertile and to slow desertification.
Aug 21, 2021 Wired
As we look to transition from fossil to bio-based materials, fungi is becoming the ultimate biodegradable building block for furniture, fashion, housing and beyond.
Aug 19, 2021 Deutsche Welle
‘Test delivery is an important step toward a fully fossil-free iron and steel production value chain’
Aug 19, 2021 The Independent
A marine protection area established off the coast of Mallorca is proving beneficial not just for the environment but for business, too, according to a study that appears to confirm the long-term benefits of MPAs for both habitats and economies.
Aug 17, 2021 The Guardian
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is viewed, along with electric vehicles, as one way to slow the environmentally destructive impact of the planet’s 1.2 billion vehicles, most of which burn gasoline and diesel fuel
Aug 13, 2021 The Independent
Growing vegetables and fish together in a confined space, and without fertilizers and pesticides. Is this the future of food production?
Aug 13, 2021 Deutsche Welle
Is there a greener way to honor those who have died? Humans have caused unprecedented and irreversible changes to the climate in our time on Earth – pollution that continues even in death. But, across the US, some are posing an alternative: human…
Aug 12, 2021 The Guardian
Solar panels generate electricity in the field, helping both farmers and climate protection. A farm visit - and where else around the world this combination pays off.
Aug 10, 2021 Deutsche Welle
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats in the world. New research, however, may have found a way to keep up with rapidly evolving bacteria.
Aug 9, 2021 The Conversation
While the popular plant-based meats grab all the headlines, a much more humble foodstuff is poised to lead the next wave of alternative proteins.
Aug 8, 2021 Wired
A medieval grave in Finland that was thought to hold the body of a female warrior or ruler has revealed a surprise — the person buried there may be non-binary.
Aug 6, 2021 LiveScience
An effort to cut emissions and empty landfills has guided home designs that prove it’s possible to turn trash into a tourist attraction, writes Elizabeth Miller
Aug 5, 2021 The Independent
