By the end of June, an Australian chain of supermarkets will no longer use soft-plastic shopping bags in its stores, providing its clients with eco-friendlier bags and making its part to reduce the quantity of harmful plastic from ending up in landfills.
The British government has approved a record investment in the hospital infrastructure, vowing to build 40 new safe and state-of-the-art facilities and rebuild five major hospitals by 2030 to benefit patients and staff alike.
In their quest to protect the Ecuadorian Amazon, a group of indigenous guards have welcome technology, improving the role they play in the survival of the rainforest’s biodiversity and consequently, the protection of the planet.
Part of its winning bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris, the capital of France, promised to make the once heavily polluted Seine fit for swimming for the first time in a century, and it looks like that promise will be delivered on time.
A California-based startup teamed up with scientists from the University of California, the United States, to develop a non-invasive “sniffing” method to identify the sex of chicken embryos within days of fertilization, thus preventing cruel and unethical ways to dispose of unwanted chicks.
