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EU Bans Halogen Bulbs in Favour of Greener LEDs
The EU has announced it is to ban halogen bulbs this September, forcing consumers to fit their homes with greener LEDs. The move is intended to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions across the EU’s domestic stock and follows…
Grate New Solar Plant Powers Cheese Processing Facility
A giant solar farm that is powering a cheese processing facility in Northern Ireland has been launched. The 5MW project is providing green electricity to Dale Farm’s cheddar cheese plant at Dunmanbridge in Cookstown and consists of 15,500 solar panels.…
‘Turning CO2 into Useful Products Such As Concrete Will Incentivise Decarbonisation’
The University of Michigan says removing carbon dioxide from the air must be incentivised by turning the gas into a useful commodity. Its $4.5 million (£3.5m) ‘Global CO2 Initiative’ aims to reduce the equivalent of 10% of current atmospheric carbon…
The World Wildlife Fund Created a Fake Store to Call Out Singapore’s Ivory Laws
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) revealed on Tuesday that it is behind Ivory Lane, a fake store that the organization launched to draw attention to Singapore’s ivory laws. While Singapore banned commercial ivory in 1990, the WWF says the law…
Forecasting Coral Disease Outbreaks Could Buy Time to Save Reefs
Hawaii’s knobby finger coral careened toward extinction in 2015. The species was so rare that scientists could only find a few fragments in the wild, scattered across the seabed of Oahu’s Kaneohe Bay. It might have been a familiar story.…
Energy Efficiency Scheme to Help Irish Dairy Farmers Milk Savings
A new grant scheme that supports the installation of certain energy efficient technologies for dairy farmers has been launched in Ireland. The Sustainable Energy Authority in Ireland (SEAI) in collaboration with Teagasc, the Agriculture and Food Development Authority, is offering…
Wild-Caught Elephants Can Die Up to 7 Years Earlier
For the study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, researchers studied records of 5,000 timber elephants in Myanmar to understand the effects of capture. They determined that capturing and taming wild-caught elephants resulted in a median lifespan that is 3–7 years…