The Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, with their similar missions to promote the use of science to benefit society and to inform critical policy debates, have today released “Climate […]
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Egyptian Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs Signs Agreement with Italy to Transform El Gouna into a Carbon-neutral City The Red Sea city of El Gouna signed an agreement between the Egyptian Ministry […]
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On 22 January 2014 the Commission proposed energy and climate objectives to be met by 2030. The objectives send a strong signal to the market, encouraging private investment in new pipelines and electricity networks or […]
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The US Environmental Protection Agency released its final Bristol Bay Assessment describing potential impacts to salmon and ecological resources from proposed large-scale copper and gold mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The report, titled […]
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“Government’s vision is that every community that wants to take forward an energy project should be able to do so.” The Department for Energy and Climate Change today published the long-awaited Community Energy […]
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An early warning system to predict the overfishing of individual species, far in advance of severe population decline, has been developed by researchers. The ‘eventual threat index’ was applied by the researchers to […]
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Kind Love, a state licensed Medical Marijuana Center (MMC) company in Denver, Colorado, will improve the operational efficiency and environmental sustainability of its grow operations by installing a Closed Circuit Desalination (CCD) reverse […]
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Every year, Ethical Traveler reviews the policies and practices of scores of nations in the developing world. They then select the ten that are doing the most impressive job of promoting human rights, […]
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Industrial emissions of black carbon were responsible for the retreat of the glaciers in the European Alps that marked the end of the so-called ‘Little Ice Age‘, according to a new study. The […]
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How green, clean and responsible is your holiday destination? QualityCoast have produced a data visualisation of the sustainability of tourist destinations. On the basis of the QualityCoast BasiQ database of 1000 tourism destinations […]
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