Quiz time: You have just finished eating an apple while on a hike. You are on a trail without trash receptacles, what do you do with the apple core? If…
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The French Development Agency (AFD) has joined forces with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to launch a project for the sustainable management of wildlife in…
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Last month, three 40-foot-long wind turbine blades were delivered from a Belfast wind farm to southern Ireland’s Cork Institute of Technology. The institute’s civil engineers will expose the blades to a battery of…
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Water scarcity is among the top five global risks affecting people’s wellbeing. In water-scarce areas, the situation is grim. Conventional sources like snowfall, rainfall, river runoff and easily accessible groundwater are…
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On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone deep below ground, in a radical…
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The past six years have been the warmest on record since 1880, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release on 15…
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Biodiversity loss is accelerating around the world with the global food system being the primary driver of this trend. The irony is that agricultural sectors are the major users of…
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The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty that aims to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of a country’s natural resources, or biological diversity. This is a…
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When countries began going into lockdown last winter and spring, clearer skies from reduced traffic and industry were hailed as a rare bright spot during a difficult time. But a study published in…
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A new report by Agora Energiewende and Ember found that renewables overtook fossil fuels in both the EU and UK in 2020. The milestone has been achieved over a season before, but this was the first…