S. Korea's carbon reduction planners criticized for 'poor skills'
Aug 06, 2021 23:40 pm UTC| Nature Economy
Environmental groups criticized the Presidential Committee on Carbon Neutrality for its poor skills in coming up with carbon neutrality plans that still emit greenhouse gas. Only one of the three options unveiled by the...
Earth's energy budget is out of balance – here's how it's warming the climate
Aug 06, 2021 10:20 am UTC| Nature
You probably remember your grade school science teachers explaining that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Thats a fundamental property of the universe. Energy can be transformed, however. When the Suns rays...
UAE's plan to burn 2/3 of trash seen negating carbon neutrality goals
Jul 31, 2021 23:55 pm UTC| Nature Economy
The UAE is constructing a $1.1 billion waste-to-energy facility in Dubai that will help burn up to two-thirds of the countrys trash to deal with a growing refuse problem. The facility is part of a series of waste...
'Cyborg soil' reveals the secret microbial metropolis beneath our feet
Jul 24, 2021 05:58 am UTC| Nature Science
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what youll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know this from lab studies that analyse samples of earth scooped from the...
Why are water companies dumping raw sewage in Britain's rivers and coastal seas?
Jul 18, 2021 10:38 am UTC| Nature
There were more than 400,000 discharges of raw sewage in 2020, together lasting more than three million hours, from water companies into rivers in England and Wales. One company, Southern Water, was recently fined a record...
S. Korea, WTO members agree to expedite ban deal on fisheries subsidies
Jul 16, 2021 23:49 pm UTC| Economy Nature
South Korea and World Trade Organization (WTO) member states agreed to redouble efforts on banning subsidies for illegal fishing to clinch a deal this year. South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee and her counterparts...
Recycling efforts insufficient to solve the plastic crisis: CEO
Jul 16, 2021 23:43 pm UTC| Economy Nature
The world is unable to recycle its way out of the plastic crisis, with only about 9 percent of what is placed in recycling bins being recycled, said Grove Collaborative Co-Founder and CEO Stu Landesberg. Unrecycled...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
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