What is a flash flood? A civil engineer explains
Aug 03, 2022 00:51 am UTC| Nature
Flash flooding is a specific type of flooding that occurs in a short time frame after a precipitation event generally less than six hours. It often is caused by heavy or excessive rainfall and happens in areas near rivers...
Good news: highway underpasses for wildlife actually work
Aug 02, 2022 04:23 am UTC| Nature
Australias wildlife is increasingly threatened with extinction. One key driver of this is habitat clearing and fragmentation. An associated factor is the expansion of our road network, particularly the upgrade and...
Australia sets sights on clean energy jobs created by 'climate emergency'
Jul 31, 2022 21:55 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
Australia seeks to create jobs in addressing the worlds climate emergency as a renewable energy powerhouse. Minister for Climate and Energy Chris Bowen said clean energy jobs would be created in battery manufacturing,...
SK ecoplant to develop technology in manufacturing hydrogen 20 times faster
Jul 29, 2022 22:55 pm UTC| Nature Science Economy Business
SK ecoplant Co. plans to develop a technology to produce hydrogen through a fermentation process where microorganisms eat and decompose organic matter in the absence of light When compared to the current approach of...
PepsiCo partners blockchain startup Security Matters for plastic recycling
Jul 28, 2022 23:41 pm UTC| Nature Technology Economy Business
PepsiCo Labs will collaborate with six startups, including Security Matters, which uses blockchain technology to identify, sort, and pack waste, in promoting sustainability in its European supply chain. Using Security...
Tesco to remove plastic wrapping from its multipack drinks
Jul 28, 2022 23:33 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
Tesco is ditching plastic wrapping of its own-label multipack drinks in the UK, in a move to save 45 million pieces of plastic a year. To be initially removed are those from its own fizzy drinks brand, saving 12...
Sprite Is getting rid of green bottles for more environmentally-friendly clear bottles
Jul 28, 2022 23:16 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business
Coca-Cola has announced that starting August 1, all of Sprites iconic green bottles will be replaced with more environmentally-friendly clear bottles across the U.S. and Canada. Julian Ochoa, CEO of R3cycle, one of the...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects