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Car-Free Sundays Are the Norm in Colombia’s Capital City, Bogotá
Imagine your city without cars — every single Sunday. At first, you might be frustrated by the inconvenience and inability to complete errands, but once you embrace the throngs of bikes, recognize...
Air Pollution Linked to Psychotic Experiences in Young People
Young people living with higher levels of air pollution are significantly more likely to have psychotic experiences, according to the first study of the issue.Researchers analysed the experiences of more than 2,000...
Pink and Green Are the Colours of Love!
Sabac is located in the north of northeastern Serbia, and it covers an area of 795 square kilometres inhabited by around 130 thousand people. Its citizens speak proudly about towns’ past –...
Hong Kong Is at the Heart of Global Wildlife Trafficking
Hong Kong is a small autonomous territory with fewer than 7.5 million residents. Yet this bustling urban center in southeastern China is at the very center of the global wildlife trafficking trade,...
UN Predicts Dire Future for Planet Unless People Change Their Ways Now
Mother Earth got a bad health report from the United Nations this week, and the scientific team that conducted the exam didn’t shirk from delivering the bad news. The word “dire” comes...
What Russia’s Green Snow Reveals About the Rise of Pollution
Don’t eat yellow snow has always been good advice. To that we can now add warnings against green, pink, orange and black snow, as new evidence of our trashing of the planet...
Compensation for Conservation: Water Markets Are Economists’ Answer to Scarcity
As cites grow and put more pressure on water sources, scarcity is an increasingly important issue. More than two thirds of the world’s population experience a water shortage every year. Just because...
World Produced 44m Tonnes of E-Waste in 2017
More than 44 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) was produced globally in 2017, with a majority being sent to landfill.That’s more than six kilograms for every person on the...
Insects Could Go Extinct Within a Century, With ‘Catastrophic’ Consequences for Life on Earth
More than 40 percent of the world's insects could go extinct in the next few decades, according to a report that lead author Francisco Sánchez-Bayo told CNN was the first global review...
Architects Propose Turning Buckingham Palace into Affordable Housing
It's time to end restrictive single family zoning and intensify an underdeveloped, underutilized urban resource.
Times are tough in the UK, not knowing whether it is in or out of Europe and the...
Which Is the World’s Most Vegan City?
Since Greggs announced a new vegan alternative to its meaty sausage roll at the start of the year, the Quorn pastries have “flown off the shelves”, the bakery chain says, selling hundreds of thousands...
‘Millions of People Could Miss out on Benefits of EVs’
A new report suggests a poorly handled deployment risks exacerbating social divides across the UKMillions of people could miss out on the environmental, health and financial benefits offered by electric vehicles (EVs).
That’s according...
Hydrogen Train on Track for 2022 Arrival in UK
Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new gas-powered train, which has been codenamed ‘Breeze’Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new hydrogen-powered passenger train.The train, codenamed...
Waste-To-Energy Test Plant Takes out the Trash in Rio
The test facility produces enough biogas each month to power a fleet of 1,000 cars.Rio de Janeiro is taking out the trash with a new pilot waste-to-energy plant.
The City Company of Urban Cleaning (Comlurb)...
Electric Buses Roll Out in São Paulo
The BYD buses are scheduled to enter operations in March 2019.BYD has delivered a series of electric buses as part of a zero emissions pilot project in the Brazilian city of São Paulo.
Equipped with...
World Bank Doubles Climate Investment to $200bn
The World Bank Group has doubled its current five-year investment to around $200 billion (£157bn) to support countries taking action to fight climate change.It is part of its plans to boost support for climate adaptation,...
