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Over 150 Solaris Electric Buses Now in Poland
Ostrołęka was the leader of this transformation towards electric mobility, as they were the first to order electric buses from Solaris. The first electric buses though appeared in the streets of Jaworzno. Today the fleet of the public transport carrier PKM in Jaworzno...
Global Food Prices Rise in July
Global food prices continued rising for the second consecutive month in July, led by vegetable oils and dairy products, according to the benchmark United Nations report.The Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price...
Some Electric Vehicles Are More Affordable Than Petrol Cars in UK
Electric vehicles (EVs) are often seen as being more expensive than petrol cars, but if the fuel saving costs are taken into account and the upfront purchase price is spread across monthly...
Status of Climate Risk Management in Latin American and Caribbean Banks
A survey among 78 financial institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean holding 54% of the total assets managed by the banking sector in the region, revealed that 38% of banks incorporate...
Carbon Dioxide and Water Successfully Converted Into Ethanol
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could do something useful with excess carbon dioxide other than capture it, compress it, and bury it deep in the bottom of the ocean? Scientists at...
Melbourne Airport Building Largest Behind-The-Meter Solar Power Plant in Australia
This may be a lousy time for the airline industry, but it is the perfect time for Australia’s Melbourne Airport to look to the future. The largest behind-the-meter solar farm in Australia...
Remote Working and Online Shopping Could Drive 14 Million Cars Off US Roads
In 2019, US motorists drove equivalent of 337 round trips from Earth to Pluto.
Lockdown meant a 64% drop in car usage, according to a KPMG report.
14 million fewer cars...
Cities – Where the Fight for a Green Recovery Will Be Won or Lost
Cities are home to 55 per cent of the world’s population, all jammed together cheek-by-jowl. Little wonder, then, that cities are being hit hardest by COVID-19: an estimated 90 per cent of...
Fresh Agriculture Technologies is developing software solutions to assist in fruit production. A team of seven people of different professions, from agronomists through developers to economists, contributed to the digitisation of agriculture...
This App Plants Trees When People Make Lower-Carbon Choices
Ant Forest is a mobile game that has become China’s largest private sector tree-planting scheme.
The game has funded the planting of more than 120 million trees, covering more than 100,000...
Beyond Tourism – Investing in Local Communities to Protect Africa’s Wild Spaces
For ten years, Dixon Parmuya has guided tourists on bush walks around Amboseli National Park in Southern Kenya. But since COVID-19 swept through Kenya in mid-March, the country’s tourism industry has dwindled,...
How Cities Are Using Nature to Keep Heatwaves at Bay
The more the planet warms, the more cities are finding they need new ways to keep urban temperatures down and protect their residents. Heatwaves are already by far the deadliest weather-related disasters...
In Tanzania, Locals and Officials Band Together to Save Mangroves
For many of the 30,000 people who live in the remote Rufiji Delta of northern Tanzania, life revolves around one thing: mangroves.These trees and bushes, which thrive in the delta's brackish water,...
10 Things You Should Know About Industrial Farming
There was a time when industrial agriculture seemed to be a panacea for a fast-growing world. Synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and high-yield cereal hybrids promised to reduce hunger, accommodate growing populations and...
Climate-Friendly Cooling Could Cut Years of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Save US$ Trillions
Coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 460 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – roughly equal to eight years of global emissions at 2018 levels –...
The Next Wave – How to Beat Future Pandemics
Ebola, SARS, Zika, HIV/AIDS, West Nile fever and now COVID-19. These are some of the highest-profile diseases to emerge in the last several decades. And while they emerged in different parts of...