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In A Post-Pandemic World, Renewable Energy Is The Only Way Forward
Getty The Economist’s regular cartoonist, KAL , summed it up neatly in his cartoon last week : the battle humanity is waging against...
Business
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Norway’s giant oil fund ditches stake in Australia’s AGL over fossil...
Norway’s gigantic sovereign wealth fund has dumped its stake in the Australian energy company AGL, which owns coal-fired power stations including the carbon-intensive...
Nature
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Deforestation rate globally declined between 2015 and 2020: FAO report
A boreal forest or taiga. Photo: Wikimedia Commons While forest area has declined all across the world in the past three decades, the...
Policy
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Built by Oil’s Riches, Houston Goes 100% Green Years Earlier
(Bloomberg) -- The oil and natural gas capital of the world is going all-in on solar power. Houston will begin a new five-year...
COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the future of the Cannard Family Farm—whose organic vegetables supplied a single Berkeley restaurant—was looking stark. Ross Cannard...
Vegan luncheon meat launches in Hong Kong
OmniMeat Luncheon is a plant-based alternative to luncheon meat. Image: OmniFoods Vegans can now have their luncheon meat and eat it. Two years...
6 of the Most Sustainable Meat Alternatives
By Jeannette Cwienk After the coronavirus spread through a number of slaughterhouses in Germany and the United States, some people might be asking...
How to replace single-use and plastic items in the kitchen
Scientists are predicting that by the year 2050, the ocean may have more plastic than fish . While countries around the world are...
Should Every School Have a Year-Round Gardening Program?
Gardening was an integral part of life for many of our ancestors in generations past, but today, most of us get all of...
Transportation
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Japan to build world’s first all-electric tanker equipped with li-ion batteries
Source: Asahi Tanker Japanese shipping company Asahi Tanker has announced it plans to build two “world first” zero-emission electric propulsion tankers which will...
Study shows how e-bikes can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from transportation
© Building e-bikes at Gazelle/ EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images This is where there should be some serious subsidy, to help get people...
World’s largest all-electric aircraft set for first flight
The world’s largest all-electric aircraft is about to take to the skies for the first time. The Cessna Caravan, retrofitted with an electric...
Volvo CEO: Pandemic will rapidly accelerate shift to electric cars
Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson said that the coronavirus will accelerate the pace of change in the auto industry. He said the shift to...
Science
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Singapore researchers invent device that produces electricity from light and shadows
The shadow-effect energy generator. In laboratory experiments, the harvested energy from the device in the presence of shadows created under indoor lighting conditions...
