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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...
Insect Collapse: ‘We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems’
Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished.
“We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days,” said Brad Lister....
The Smoke Clears from Household Fuels with New Clean Air Strategy
The government has announced only the cleanest wood-burning stoves will be available for sale from 2022.Polluting household fuels could be banned under the UK Government’s Clean Air Strategy for 2019, published today.
Ministers...
10 Worst-Case Climate Predictions if We Don’t Keep Global Temperatures Under 1.5 Degrees Celsius
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat. Although scientists exercise great care before linking individual weather events to climate change, the rise in global...
Environmental Storytelling Can Help Spread Big Ideas for Saving the Planet
Tackling climate change will require huge changes in society. Decarbonizing energy, restoring habitat and making food supply sustainable are all critical, but methods for motivating these actions have typically taken the wrong approach—by highlighting the...
Fossil Fuels and Climate Denial Still Reign in Louisiana Despite Scientists’ Dire Warnings
Louisiana is ground zero for the devastating impacts of climate change. Even though the state is already feeling the costly impacts to life and property due to extreme weather and an eroding coastline linked to...
Legal Plastic Content in Animal Feed Could Harm Human Health, Experts Warn
Small bits of plastic packaging from waste food make their way into animal feed as part of the UK’s permitted recycling process.Plastic traces in animal feed could pose a risk to human...
The Past 5 Years Were the Arctic’s Warmest on Record
The Arctic is still warming at twice the rate of anywhere else on Earth, and the region's air temperatures in the past five years between 2014-2018 have exceeded all previous records since 1900, according...
Upstream Oil and Gas Emissions Shot up 7% in 2017
Oil & Gas UK says this makes up around 3% of the country’s entire greenhouse gas emissions.Total emissions from upstream oil and gas operations in the UK increased by 7% to 15.7...
ABB Launches the World’s First DigitalIy Integrated Power Transformer
ABB AbilityTM enabled range of products take transformers into the digital age enhancing reliability and efficiencyThe ABB AbilityTM Power Transformer, unveiled at the 2018 Hanover Fair, in Germany, will be the world’s...
Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Hits Highest Rate in 10 Years
About 7,900 square kilometers (3,050 square miles) of forest was cleared in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2017 and July 2018, the worst annual deforestation rate in a decade, according to government data. That's a 13.7 percent...
Tropics Could Face Six Climate Disasters at Once by 2100
In a year that saw record-breaking heat waves, record-breaking hurricanes and record-breaking wildfires, it's hard to imagine how the future could look any more like a disaster movie than the present. But that is exactly what...
Circular Economy
Have you ever strolled around the park and asked yourself where all the leaves that have covered the ground only a few months ago went? Or how the hell the sunflower shells...
Fruitful Cooperation between the Local Self-government and the Civil Sector in Paracin
At the end of the 1980s in Paracin, the local Ecological Movement and the Young Researchers division were established thanks to liberal ideas of the youth organisation of that time. These were...
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,...