Nepal’s ‘miracle house’ stood firm to survive the country’s devastating floods – The Irish Times
For some, it has become known as the “miracle” green house. For others arriving to stare in wonderment…
That Arctic research station in the BBC thriller Vigil? It’s really a Kia car showroom on the edge of Glasgow
By CLAUDIA JOSEPH Published: 17:31 EDT, 5 September 2026 | Updated: 18:58 EDT, 5 September 2026 The new…
Squid Are Taking Over The Ocean – And Not For The Reason You Might Think : ScienceAlert
We’ve made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to…
Farmers blamed for carbon footprints while people fly around the world – The Irish Times
Sir, – A correspondent (Letters, September 1st) tells us that he has just had his 54th flight in…
On September 11, 2018, a Dutch city opened a 30-meter bike path built from hollow prefabricated modules containing the recycled equivalent of 218,000 plastic cups, with sensors installed inside to measure temperature, loading and the number of bicycles crossing it
Roughly 218,000 plastic cups, in recycled-plastic terms, is what went into a single 30-meter stretch of bike path…
In 2013, three friends began collecting Chilean fishing nets for skateboards; Bureo has since recycled more than 7.2 million pounds into more than 13 million end-products |
AI Representation: Discarded fishing nets cause pollution. Image credits: Chatgpt Ben Kneppers and David Stover first met as…
In What Ways Are We Not Prepared for the Big One?
The West Coast of the United States lies on the Pacific ring of fire, the most seismically active…
A Brazilian couple took over a badly degraded former cattle farm and in 1998 founded an organisation to restore its Atlantic Forest; the first survey, in 2006, found 172 bird species had already returned to the recovering forest.
When Sebastião Salgado inherited his family’s cattle ranch near Aimorés, in Brazil’s Rio Doce Valley, the land was…
Hawaii Built Road Using Recycled Plastic Equal To 195,000 Bottles In 2022, Here’s Why
Hawaii transportation officials began a road project in 2022 by mixing recycled plastic into asphalt, a type of…
Clear-cut logging is making floods worse. But it’s not just about how many trees are cut
The 2021 floods in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley caused upwards of $14 billion in damages. Since then, communities…
Solar Power Is Booming in Emerging Markets
Solar energy is going gangbusters. The world is adding photovoltaic solar panels at a blistering rate, shattering its…
Declines in European bumblebee habitat suitability attributable to climate change
IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem…