Dell Announce Project To Make New Products From Scrap Materials
Computer technology company Dell has announced a new partnership with industry supplier SABIC, which will see the company utilise previously disused scrap carbon fibre in new products by the end of 2015. Licensed under CC – credit Flickr user: Long Zheng The company estimates that it can prevent around 820,000 pounds of carbon fibre from […]
Australia says Volkswagen faces legal action if 'defeat devices' found
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says presence of pollution-cheating software would violate consumer law and risk fines of $1.1m per breach Volkswagen faces being hauled before a court and fined by the consumer watchdog if pollution-cheating software is found in its Australian cars. In an update on its investigation into the local impact of the […]
Record El Niño set to cause hunger for 10 million poorest, Oxfam warns
Charity says countries already facing a ‘major emergency’ include Ethiopia, where 4.5 million people need food aid because of scarcity of rain this year At least 10 million of the world’s poorest people are set to go hungry this year because of failing crops caused by one of the strongest El Niño climatic events on […]
World's energy systems at risk from global warming, say leading firms
Energy grids, power stations and distribution networks are vulnerable to storms, flooding and heatwaves caused by climate change, say World Energy Council The world’s energy infrastructure is at risk from the extreme weather expected to result from climate change, a group of prominent energy companies has warned. Energy systems, including fossil fuel power stations, distribution […]
Mining and oil threatens one in three natural world heritage sites — report
WWF finds 31% world heritage sites at risk from fossil fuel exploration and mining, including Great Barrier Reef and Africa’s oldest national park Nearly one in three natural world heritage sites are at risk of exploration for fossil fuels and mining, a report from the conservation charity WWF has found. The record high of 31% […]
Five million hectares around Uluru declared an Indigenous protected area
Government funding will allow the Anangu people to protect sacred sites, native plants and animals around the Uluru-Kata Tjuta national park Five million hectares (12.35m acres) of land around Uluru in the Northern Territory is to be declared an Indigenous protected area, allowing traditional owners to better preserve sites of cultural significance. Related: Uluru’s secrets […]
Questions over Direct Action as Greg Hunt reveals Paris target needs industrial emissions cut
Experts doubt environment minister’s assumption that ‘safeguards’ mechanism can deliver cuts required to meet Australia’s emissions reduction target Australia is calculating that its big industrial emitters will be forced to reduce greenhouse pollution by 200m tonnes between 2020 and 2030, an assumption experts say will require major changes to the Direct Action policy which is […]
Zoo visitor claims she was bitten by spider
Elsa Fricker says she has had fever, dizziness and migraines since visiting In With the Spiders but London Zoo says species are docile and unlikely to bite London zoo is investigating claims by a woman who believes she was bitten by a spider while visiting a new exhibition designed to bring visitors face to face […]
Outdoor apparel brand United By Blue takes charge in ocean cleanup effort
Active lifestyle brands are organizing to protect the environment they rely on. This month, a small Philadelphia-based apparel company picked up 250,000lb of waste On a late Saturday morning earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered under a navy blue tent at Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, in preparation to pick up trash. Philadelphia-based outdoor […]
Jeremy Corbyn prefers mushroom curries to clouds – thank goodness | Lucy Mangan
Even talking about nuclear weapons brings us uncomfortably close to a nightmare too awful to contemplate From the age of five until 10 I lay awake every night frozen in terror by the thought of the four-minute warning going off when I was at school, which I knew to be at least a five minute […]