Sweden has produced the world’s first sponge iron, and this useful tool made to eliminate CO2 in steelmaking could cut two thirds of the country’s emissions, or about 35 megatons, every year.
A leguminous tree from Indonesia - typically used for medicine, animal feed, fuelwood and more - will now also help the nation in its quest for landscape restoration, sustainable livelihood, and bioenergy.
When I started working at a luxury resort in the moors close to Germany's Bielefeld recently, I learned something really surprising: Moors cover only 3% of the world's land area. Forests, on the other hand, 30%.