Circulate on Fridays: SAP find savings in digital, new report on emerging markets and more
Circulate on Fridays time! Read on to find out what the Circulate team have been reading, writing and watching this week. SAP find gigatons of savings in digital business Bringing intelligence to the grid could conserve conventional energy sources and increase renewable uptake. Photo credit: Leonid Yaitskiy via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA As we start to get […]
Vintage posters of America's national parks – in pictures
A collection of posters created to promote tourism to the national parks is part of the creative legacy of the New Deal developed by Franklin D Roosevelt. Between 1938 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration and its Federal Arts Project designed a series of artworks promoting, and inspired by, the landscapes and wildlife of the […]
Synthetic prawns: a bid to make ‘seafood’ that’s sustainable and slavery-free
A California biotech company receives funding to commercialise algae-based prawns, in an attempt to get people switching to more sustainable diets How do you describe the taste and texture of a prawn? Sort of rubbery; elastic, even. Like chicken, only better. These unappetising phrases hardly capture what makes it so good—the precise reason why prawns […]
England's best-loved wildlife still in serious decline, report shows
Government countryside assessment paints a ‘grim picture’ with key species such as hedgehogs, dormice, birds and butterflies all continuing to decrease in number Much of England’s best-loved wildlife remains in serious decline, according to the latest official assessment from the government. Birds and butterflies on farmland have continued their long term downward trend and 75% […]
Indonesia seizes hundreds of frozen pangolins
Authorities find more than 650 critically endangered pangolins hidden in freezers in Java Indonesian authorities have seized more than 650 critically endangered pangolins found hidden in freezers and arrested a man for allegedly breaking wildlife protection laws, police said on Friday. Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
Edible food wrappers: Is this an innovation that can make a difference?
Edible food wrappers as a potential replacement for plastic packaging has been explored by a number of innovators in recent years. However, researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) believe they have made a significant breakthrough in terms of enhancing the performance characteristics of biodegradable alternatives creating a film using milk protein. The USDA group, which is […]
Kingfisher bonds will loosen as summer fades
Airedale, West Yorkshire By early September mating instincts will give way to a territorial urge and this stretch of river won’t be big enough for both birds They’re still together, but it won’t last. The sycamore keys have started to twirl to earth and a parting of ways is on the cards. Kingfisher pairs seldom […]
Sorry Josh Frydenberg, gas is not the cleaner alternative to coal | Blair Palese
Despite the government’s sudden conversion to gas as Australia’s panacea to climate change, the only real solution is 100% renewable energy There has been a lot of hot air recently about the role of gas in Australia’s future energy generation. At last week’s COAG meeting, the overwhelming takeaway message from our newly minted energy and […]
Mother wrestled and kicked kangaroo to save two-year-old girl
Queensland woman says she had to fight the animal after finding it had her daughter pinned to the ground A Queensland mother has wrestled and kicked a kangaroo to save her two-year-old daughter at their Hervey Bay home. Argie Abejaron told the Fraser Coast Chronicle she had heard her six-year-old son scream on Tuesday and […]
American pika vanishing from western US as 'habitat lost to climate change'
The small mammal – ‘one of the cutest animals in America’ – is struggling to survive as summers get hotter and drier Populations of a rabbit-like animal known as the American pika are vanishing in many mountainous areas of the west as climate change alters its habitat, according to findings released by the US Geological […]