Rapidly increasing climate change poses a rising threat to mental health, says IPCC
Mar 01, 2022 09:57 am UTC| Nature
Climate change poses serious risks to mental well-being. For the first time, a new climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has assessed how climate change is having widespread and cumulative...
Hyundai to export Elec City hydrogen buses to Austria
Feb 28, 2022 23:57 pm UTC| Economy Business Nature
Hyundai Motor Co.s Elec City hydrogen buses have been introduced as public city buses in Vienna, Austria. Hyundai said that Wiener Linien, an Austrian public transportation agency, has launched an electric bus based on...
Coca-Cola Japan tests bottle-filling water dispensers to help reduce plastic waste
Feb 28, 2022 23:57 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
Coca-Cola Japan is working on a project called the Bon Aqua Water Bar, a self-serve water dispenser that offers users five different kinds of water cold water, room temperature water, hot water, and strong and weak...
Chevron to buy Renewable Energy Group for $3.15 billion
Feb 28, 2022 23:15 pm UTC| Economy Business Nature
Chevron Corp is buying biodiesel maker Renewable Energy Group Inc for $3.15 billion, in its biggest bet so far on alternative fuels. Chevron would pay $61.5 in cash per share of Renewable Energy, more than 40 percent...
Japan to allow businesses to trade CO2 emission allocations in 2023
Feb 26, 2022 23:20 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
Japanese business operators will be able to buy and sell unnecessary emission allocations of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions starting in fiscal 2023 in a quest to reduce the nations carbon footprint. To start on a trial...
Consumers use 10 kilograms of plastic each year in single food deliveries: study
Feb 26, 2022 23:19 pm UTC| Nature Economy
The Korea Consumer Agency warned that a single person generates over 10 kilograms of plastic waste each year using food delivery services. The consumer watchdog studied the plastic packaging used for 10 kinds of...
McDonald's opens net-zero restaurant in the UK
Feb 26, 2022 22:34 pm UTC| Economy Nature
McDonalds has opened what it calls the UKs first net-zero carbon restaurant dubbed The Market Drayton McDonalds, which will serve as a blueprint for future restaurants around the country. The Market Drayton McDonald has...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight