Archive for 2018
Real Madrid score a win for recycled plastic
Real Madrid are the world’s most successful football club and one of its most popular too. It’s now one of its more environmentally friendly teams too. In a preseason game that took place in the US against Italian powerhouse AS
Eating insects is good for you and the planet too
Insects like grasshoppers, water beetles and crickets are regular staples of diets in Southeast Asia, Africa and Central America. Yet many people in Europe tend to turn their noses up at fried crickets and sautéed grasshoppers. Each to his own,
Pharmaceutical discharges can badly harm the environment
The medicines we produce come with great health benefits. Sadly, though, they can also come with harmful side-effects to the environment. Take birth control pills. They have been a great boon to women everywhere by allowing them to control their
Seeking to nab the traffickers of endangered pangolins
Pangolins, a scaly ant-eating animal with long claws and an ever longer snout, are among the world’s strangest mammals. They are also among its most trafficked animals, being driven inexorably ever closer to extinction by unscrupulous poachers and wildlife trafficking
High-tech CityTrees suck up air pollution
The air in bustling towns and cities tend to be polluted all year round. Countless vehicles keep spewing harmful particulate matters into the air, creating a lingering miasma of pollutants. Imagine, though, if we could somehow devise a method that
Wind power in Europe is undergoing a slowdown
In the first half of 2018 Europe added 4.5 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity, according to WindEurope. As much as 3.3GW of that came from new onshore wind farms installed in such major wind energy markets as Germany (1.6GW), France