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Could IKEA’s New Tiny House Help Fight the Climate Crisis?

Furniture giant IKEA collaborated with Vox Creative and tiny home builder Escape to produce a tiny house on wheels that could inspire environmental- and climate-friendly changes in the housing industry.
To Boost Emissions Reductions from Electric Vehicles, Know When to Charge

Transportation-related emissions are increasing globally.
UN health agency clears COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

To speed up access to COVID-19 vaccinations in the developing world, on the eve of the new year, the UN health agency approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccines for emergency use.
Study examines the most effective COVID-19 control policies

With the arrival of effective vaccines for the COVID-19 virus, the end of the pandemic is on the horizon but in the short term the virus continues to spread.
We all have a role to play for a better tomorrow, UN Assembly President says in New Year message

The President of the United Nations General Assembly has urged everyone around the world “to continue to work together” to end the coronavirus pandemic,

23.12.2020 Water and genes flow between the two largest Baltic salmon rivers

Salmon from upstream reaches of the two northernmost Baltic rivers are different from downstream salmon. A recent study found that upstream salmon from the large Tornio and Kalix Rivers in Finland and Sweden are genetically distinct and migrate at different times and ages than their downstream counterparts. However, there seems
21.12.2020 'They're liars': activists say Brooklyn residents were not informed of fracked gas pipeline

Environmentalist groups say the pipeline, intended to funnel gas from Pennsylvania to north Brooklyn, is an example of environmental racism
17.12.2020 Industrial waste is reused to produce alternatives to plastic

In Brazil, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Ilha Solteira have developed a film that can replace plastic in food packaging.
16.12.2020 No deal Brexit could have detrimental impact for people in UK living with a rare disease

Experts have warned that a ‘no deal’ Brexit will result in the exclusion of the UK from the 24 European Reference Networks (ERNs)
15.12.2020 Green energy transition: Early and steady wins the race

Researchers from Aarhus University have modelled the decarbonisation of the sector-coupled European energy system using very high-resolution data.
14.12.2020 LPU researchers get patent for process of desalinating sea water using waste food

A team of researchers from Punjab-based Lovely Professional University (LPU) have bagged a patent from Indian Patent Office for a novel and eco-friendly process to desalinate sea water using waste food.
14.12.2020 Deadliest plastics: bags and packaging biggest marine life killers, study finds

Plastic bags and flexible packaging are the deadliest plastic items in the ocean, killing wildlife including whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds around the globe, according to a review of hundreds of scientific articles.
10.12.2020 Human-made materials now outweigh Earth's entire biomass – study

The giant human footprint stamped across the world in 2020 is greater than the impact on the planet of all other living things, research suggests.
4.12.2020 Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds

Pollution from car tires that washes into waterways is helping cause a mass die-off of salmon on the US west coast, researchers have found.
3.12.2020 Electronic waste on the decline, new study finds

A new study, led by a researcher at the Yale School of the Environment’s Center for Industrial Ecology and published recently in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, has found that the total mass of electronic waste generated by Americans has been declining since 2015. In an age when most of

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