The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events
NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the…
This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly | Tim Winton
Well, there’s no getting around it now. What many of us once feared has become a reality. The…
A landslide at a landfill in the capital of Guinea kills 30 people, officials say
Conakry, GuineaAP — A mountainous heap of refuse collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea‘s capital of Conakry early…
Scottish Water: Scotland recycles 72,000 contaminated single-use plastic bottles in a world-first move as new technology targets Petri dishes and pipette tips |
Scotland is taking a new approach to laboratory plastic waste. A new recycling system has already processed around…
Plastic producers must clean up their own mess
Every year, Bangladesh produces around 800,000 tonnes of plastic waste, of which only about 40 percent is recycled.…
In 1979, Canadian fisherman Édouard Arsenault got a postcard from his daughter that inspired him to build an entire village from more than 25,000 recycled glass bottles
A postcard from his daughter sparked an extraordinary idea for Canadian fisherman and carpenter Édouard T. Arsenault, who…
‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself | Biodiversity
Tucked away on a country lane, a small field bursts with yellow and pink flowers. Quail and whitethroats…
30 dead after Guinea landfill collapse from torrential rain landslide
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A businessman bought a 23,000-acre Scottish sporting estate and spent two decades rewilding it; one million native trees later, red squirrels have been reintroduced
Deep in the Scottish Highlands, a process of regeneration is taking place An English businessman who bought a…
Earth’s forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last climate shock — this one is moving 10 times faster
The fossil record preserves this same fragmented leaf litter. Comparing the shapes of thousands of epidermal cells with…
Wash rice twice, not 7 times: Drought-hit England targets faith, cultural habits
England’s water crisis has prompted a £270,000 campaign urging people to wash rice fewer times and use less…
Why France does water better: Fountains, spas, sparkling water and the Seine
Comment From fountains to spas, water shapes everyday French life Visitors to Paris in the recent heatwaves may…