Environment
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Animals DenmarkSlugs, Ants and Panda Dung Hold Clues to Greener Energy, Say Researchers
Researchers in Denmark are looking into how slugs, ants and pandas can help the world shift to climate-smart fuels, believing their unique abilities to break down dry plants hold key clues to boosting plant-based biofuel production.
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Environment ItalyFish Are Happy as Venice’s Dirty Canals Clear up (Because People Stay at Home)
While Italy faces a lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, people are starting to notice an environmental silver lining to the social distancing: Venice’s heavily polluted canals are looking a whole lot cleaner and clearer.
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Environment United KingdomGlobal Power Production Had the Biggest Drop in CO2 Emissions Since Thirty Years
With an increasing number of countries opting to use more renewable energy resources and less coal, last year saw a two percent drop in carbon emissions in the global power sector – the lowest decline since 1990.
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Technology SwedenUnderwater Robots Keep Ships Clean to Cut Carbon Emissions
As the shipping industry is looking into ways to reduce carbon emissions, a new kind of underwater robot may be the solution, reducing the pollution of cargo ships by keeping them clean so they can use less energy to move around.
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Environment ZimbabweIndigenous People Go Old School: Homes on Stilts Better Than Brick Houses
Increasingly warm temperatures and heavy floods around Binga, Zimbabwe, led the indigenous Tonga people to look to their past to protect their families: they’re now building ngazi – traditional elevated wooden huts – next to their modern brick homes.