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Plastic Straws and Cotton Buds Could Be Banned in England in a Year
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a consultation on the proposals.
Plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds could be banned within a year in England under government plans to reduce pollution.Environment Secretary...
Cherry Blossoms Are Blooming Across Japan: It’s October
Each year, Japan's iconic cherry blossoms herald the arrival of spring. But after a bout of extreme weather, blooms are being reported several months early.The Japanese weather site Weathernews said it had...
Circular Clothing Hits the Catwalk at Dutch Design Week
Circular clothing firm takes recycled fashion to Dutch Design Week.
Trash-2-Cash has created a climate change-neutral shirt, a recycled raincoat and even an environmentally-conscious car interior, which it plans to showcase at the event in...
UK Plastics Recycling Industry Under Investigation for Fraud and Corruption
Exclusive: Watchdog examining claims plastic waste is not being recycled but left to leak into rivers and oceans. The plastics recycling industry is facing an investigation into suspected widespread abuse and fraud within...
90% of Table Salt Is Contaminated with Mircroplastics
A year after researchers at a New York university discovered microplastics present in sea salt thanks to widespread plastic pollution, researchers in South Korea set out to find out how pervasive the problem is—and...
2018 Likely to Rank as Fourth-Hottest Year on Record
After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves and devastating wildfires, 2018 is shaping up to be one of the planet's hottest years in recorded history.
From January through September, the average global temperature was 1.39°F above the...
U.S. Companies Set a New Record on Renewables
Chalk up another record for renewables, this time in the United States. Local companies there added nearly 4 GW of utility-scale wind and solar capacity by August this year. In so doing,...
I’m the Walrus … Suffering from Melting Ice
One of the most iconic images depicting the environmental impacts of climate change shows a forlorn polar bear being stranded, or so it appears, on a floating chunk of ice among melting...
Emissions Dip When Freight Ships Use Chips
Chip fat and other vegetable oils could be used to replace polluting fuels used to power freight vessels.
Chip fat and other vegetable oils could soon be used to replace the polluting fuels...
Study: Orangutans Are Facing a Form of Eco-Genocide
If people had been doing this to other people, we’d call it genocide. Yet that’s what people have been doing to Borneo’s orangutans: perpetrating a form of eco-genocide against them. In this...
Taxing Carbon May Sound Like a Good Idea But Does It Work?
Exxon Mobil is backing a proposal to tax oil, gas and coal companies for the carbon they emit and redistribute the money raised that way to all Americans. It's also giving a...
Israel to Ban Petrol and Diesel Car Sales After 2030
Israel has announced a plan to ban petrol and diesel car sales after 2030.The government aims to replace them with electric cars and gas-powered trucks, funding more than 2,000 new charging stations around the...
UK Scientists Turn Coffee Industry Waste into Electricity
Fuel cell could help Colombian farmers by using microbes to eat waste and develop energy.
Scientists have turned coffee waste into electricity for the first time, in research that could help farmers and...
Volvo’s Low Emission Efforts Keep on Truckin’
It autonomous ‘Vera’ vehicle aims to slash emissions and boost productivity in logistics operations.Volvo has announced a new autonomous electric vehicle (EV) to works in ports, factories and other logistics centres.Its ‘Vera’ design has no...
EU Plan to Reduce Checks on Chickens ‘Will Increase Food Poisoning Risk’
Some experts say scaling down inspections is likely to lead to more consumers being infected with campylobacter.
Millions of chickens could soon be sold across the EU without being individually inspected for contamination...
Solar Power ‘Will Help Europe Avoid Blackouts’
Sun Investment Group says photovoltaic panels can prove highly effective in covering gaps in supply.
Solar power will prove an important technology in stopping power outages across Europe in coming years.
That’s the verdict from...
