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Green Energy: Good For The Planet, Bad For Fossil Fuel Workers
Current U.S. President Donald Trump, like all candidates, made a lot of promises before the election. One of his biggest was directed towards coal workers, to whom he vowed to end the...
What Is the True Cost of Eating Meat
Food and farming is one of the biggest economic sectors in the world. We are no longer in the 14th century, when as much as 76% of the population worked in agriculture...
Arne Sannes Bjørnstad, The Ambassador of Norway: It is Important to Maintain the Resources We Have
It is known that the Kingdom of Norway belongs to the group of biggest polluters per capita, which is an inglorious record, that is credited to another title – this Scandinavian country is...
Report Finds Global Climate Legislation Slowdown Since 2015 Paris Agreement
The place of global climate change legislation has "slowed significantly" since the Paris agreement was formulated in 2015, CBS reported Thursday.This slowdown follows decades of legislative growth, and raises potential concerns about...
Hawaii Becomes First US State to Ban Sunscreens Harmful to Coral Reefs
Coral reefs and sunshine keep tourists flocking to Hawaii but add sunscreen to that holiday mix and the result can be serious damage to the marine environment that makes the islands so...
Air Pollution Inequality Widens Between Rich and Poor Nations
Pollution inequality between the world’s rich and poor is widening, according to the latest global data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) which shows that 7 million people – mostly in developing...
Personal Care Products as Dangerous for the Air as Car Exhaust, Study Finds
People's efforts to keep themselves clean are actually making the air dirtier, at least in Boulder, Colorado.
A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Cooperative Institute for Research...
To Power Villages And Oil Rigs, Russia Sent A Nuclear Reactor On A “Tsunami-Proof” Barge
If the world is going to end, why not have it be for a ridiculous, insane reason?
Like, say, building nuclear power plants on top of a barge and sending it floating up...
£20m Study to Investigate Collapse Risk of Major Antarctic Glacier
British and US scientists are to collaborate on a £20m project to examine the Thwaites glacier in west Antarctica, a major glacier that drains an area about the size of the UK.
The...
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Can Power 16,000 Homes
The world's largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine will test its wings at an innovative facility in northeast England.
The 12-megawatt Haliade-X, developed by GE Renewable Energy, stands 853 feet tall, or...
Renewable Energy Dominates Early 2018 Power Plant Construction
The February Infrastructure Update from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reported that 98 percent of power plants built in the first two months of 2018 were renewable, Popular Mechanics reported Thursday.
During...
More Than 40 Companies Sign Onto Historic UK Plastics Pact
In a historic move, more than 40 UK companies have signed up to fight plastic pollution as part of the UK Plastics Pact, The Independent reported Wednesday.The pact, which officially launches today,...
EU Agrees Total Ban on Bee-Harming Pesticides
The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees.
The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations on Friday,...
First-Of-Its-Kind Farm Uses Seawater and Solar Power to Grow Crops
Much of the current innovation in farming focuses on how to integrate technology into the food we produce by genetically engineering crops and livestock for improved production, increased resilience to disease, or...
Ørsted Confirms Final Investment In Taiwan’s 120 Megawatt Formosa 1 Offshore Wind Farm
Danish wind energy giant Ørsted has confirmed its final investment decision for the second phase of Taiwan’s Formosa 1 offshore wind farm which will add 120 megawatts (MW) to the existing 8...
Food and Drink Giants Unite in Promise to Wage War on Plastic Waste
The government may have promised to wipe out avoidable plastic waste in the UK by 2042, but today large swathes of the UK's food and drink sector went a leap further, in...
