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Babies in Strollers Breathe Up to 60 Percent More Dangerous Air Pollution Than Adults
Parents might want to think twice before pushing their babies in strollers alongside busy streets.A study published Aug. 10 in Environment International by the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at...
Indonesia’s Deforestation Dropped 60 Percent in 2017
In the midst of the second-worst year for tropical tree cover loss in 2017, Indonesia saw an encouraging sign: a 60 percent drop in tree cover loss in primary forests compared with...
EU Bans Halogen Bulbs in Favour of Greener LEDs
The EU has announced it is to ban halogen bulbs this September, forcing consumers to fit their homes with greener LEDs.
The move is intended to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions...
Grate New Solar Plant Powers Cheese Processing Facility
A giant solar farm that is powering a cheese processing facility in Northern Ireland has been launched.
The 5MW project is providing green electricity to Dale Farm’s cheddar cheese plant at Dunmanbridge in...
Energy Efficiency Scheme to Help Irish Dairy Farmers Milk Savings
A new grant scheme that supports the installation of certain energy efficient technologies for dairy farmers has been launched in Ireland.
The Sustainable Energy Authority in Ireland (SEAI) in collaboration with Teagasc, the...
UK Experts Back Subsidies for Mini Nuclear Power Plants
The UK Government should provide subsidies to developers of mini nuclear power stations like it did with the offshore wind industry.
That’s the recommendation of the Expert Finance Working Group (EFWG), an independent...
Japan Considers Adopting Daylight Savings Time for 2020 Summer Olympics
This summer’s deadly heatwaves in Japan have caused government and Olympic officials to consider the benefits of adopting daylight savings time for the 2020 Summer Olympics to ensure athlete safety. Prime Minister...
Climate Change Threatens Champagne’s Unique Taste
Climate change is threatening regional culinary traditions from Tabasco sauce to maple syrup, and now you can add champagne to that list.Warmer temperatures and earlier harvests in the famous wine-making region are...
Forests Storing Greenhouse Gases ‘Crucial to Tackling Climate Change’
UK scientists say replacing forests with crops for bioenergy power stations that capture carbon could instead increase the amount of emissions.
Carbon capture technologies will help curb the world’s efforts to tackle climate...
Last Year Was Warmest Ever That Didn’t Feature an El Niño, Report Finds
Last year was the warmest ever recorded on Earth that didn’t feature an El Niño, a periodic climatic event that warms the Pacific Ocean, according to the annual state of the climate...
What Is ‘Hothouse Earth’, and How Bad Would Such a Climate Catastrophe Be?
Oceans engulfing coastal cities, coral reefs eliminated and vast swathes of the Earth left completely uninhabitable.
This is what we have to look forward to in a future “Hothouse Earth” – a planet...
EU Efficiency Improvements ‘Could Avoid 27,500 Premature Deaths by 2030’
Domestic energy efficiency improvements in the EU could avoid up to 27,500 premature deaths from indoor cold by 2030.
That’s according to several new research projects at the University of Manchester – one...
Domino-Effect of Climate Events Could Move Earth into a ‘Hothouse’ State
A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile,...
Europe’s Microwave Ovens Emit Nearly As Much CO2 As 7m Cars
The biggest impact comes from electricity used to power the microwaves, but study also highlights rising environmental cost of our throwaway culture.
Popping frozen peas into the microwave for a couple of minutes...
5,500 UK Churches Switch to Renewable Energy
More than 5,500 churches including some of the UK’s most famous cathedrals have converted to renewable power to help tackle climate change.
Church of England places of worship, along with Catholic, Baptist, Methodist,...
Study Finds New Reason to Ban Plastic: It Emits Methane in the Sun
The proliferation of plastic pollution has led to concerns over its impact on marine life and human health as the toxins it absorbs and emits move up the food chain. Now, a...