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From Harmful Ambrosia over Pellets to a Warm Home
The large family home belonging to Rade Vujic from Sitnes near Srpac in Republika Srpska is probably the only building in the entire area that is being heated by combustion of a nearly indestructible weed – ambrosia. Rade came up…
‘Impossible-to-Cheat’ Emissions Tests Show Almost All New Diesels Still Dirty
Emissions tests that are impossible for carmakers to cheat show that almost all diesel car models launched in Europe since the “dieselgate” scandal remain highly polluting. The test uses a beam of light to analyse the exhaust plume of a…
Environmental Problems Go Hand In Hand With Social Injustice: North Carolina Wants to End That
Here’s a relationship that is becoming clearer by the day: environmental issues disproportionately impact the poor and communities of color. Consider the crisis in Flint, Michigan. In 2014, the city captured national attention when it was revealed that the city’s…
Goran Trivan The Minister of Environmental Protection: We Must Take Care of the Branch We are Sitting on
The term “sustainable development” origins from forestry and in short, it means that a man can cut down as many old trees as he has planted. In an attempt to come up with an answer to the question whether we…
Climate Change Could Displace Half a Million Atoll Residents Within Decades
A new study published in Science Advances Wednesday has bad news for the residents of low-lying atolls: If current greenhouse gas emission rates continue, climate change will render most of these islands uninhabitable by mid-century, not by the end of…
Food and Drink Giants Unite in Promise to Wage War on Plastic Waste
The government may have promised to wipe out avoidable plastic waste in the UK by 2042, but today large swathes of the UK’s food and drink sector went a leap further, in a bid to convince the British public they…
New York City Will Ban Automobiles From Central Park This Summer
Central Park in New York City is the most visited outdoor space in the United States. 40 million people a year flock to Central Park to partake of its charms. First established in 1857, it was designed by famed landscape…