Feeding urban populations is a major challenge of the 21st century. In 2050, nearly two-thirds of the world's population of more than 9 billion people will be living in cities. The food that we choose to produce and consume, the…
In recent decades, the food industry has been Wasteful, Idle, Lopsided and Dirty (WILD). We’ve been over exploiting crops and destroying the earth’s most important resources, including land quality and biodiversity. Today, our food production accounts for around 30% of…
Air pollution remains Europe's top environmental threat to health, with more than 400,000 premature deaths driven by air pollution every year in the EU, a report said Tuesday. Noise pollution comes second, contributing to 12,000 premature deaths, followed by climate…
An enormous chunk of Greenland's ice cap measuring approximately 42.3 square miles has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said Monday, which scientists believe is further confirmation of the earth's rapidly…
In Paris, works have begun on greening the facade of the building of the 17th arrondissement, which is the largest city administration building in this city after the City Assembly. The works will last for a year, as well as…
September 5 is celebrated worldwide as the International Day for the Protection of Vultures, and the Youth Club Novi Val from Blagaj is also celebrating 13 years since the beginning of the project of reintroduction of Griffon Vultures to…
In a decisive leap, researchers have now mapped roughly one fifth of the world’s ocean floor. When an initiative to map the entire seafloor by 2030 took off in 2017, just 6 percent had been mapped to modern standards. The…
As a string of thunderstorms rolled through Harris County last week, local flood control officials were monitoring creeks and bayous, all of which stayed safely in their banks. That's in sharp contrast to last spring, when back-to-back floods dumped biblical…
In Apaah, a small community in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, Issac Boadu's dream of becoming a university student and an architect will soon materialize. That is once he gains admission to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, one…
Wiener Linien, one of the biggest public transport operators in Europe, has added a hydrogen Solaris bus (earlier post) to its fleet for testing until 12 June. Since the première of the hydrogen bus in June last year, Solaris has…