Sun and wind generated 60% of all electricity in the UK on Monday
Great Britain’s electricity system recorded its greenest ever day over the Easter bank holiday as sunshine and windy weather led to a...
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Colgate introduces manual toothbrush with a reusable handle and 80% less plastic
Over 495 million adult manual toothbrushes were purchased in the U.S. in 2020 and will likely end up in landfill because they cannot be...
Elon Musk to offer $100 million prize for 'best' carbon capture technology
Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a $100 million prize for development of the...
Waitrose ranked first for efforts to reduce plastics in Greenpeace report as it confirms latest plan
Waitrose has ranked first in Greenpeace’s annual league table, for the second year in a row, which looks at how supermarkets are reducing...
The world’s biggest diesel engine factory switches to electric motors
From less than 10% of output in 2020, electric motor production at Tremery will double to around 180,000 in 2021, and is planned to reach...
Seagrass collects up to 900 million plastic items in the Mediterranean Sea each year
There is strong evidence that the seafloor constitutes a final sink for plastics from land sources. There is also evidence that part of...
Norway becomes first country to sell more electric cars than petrol vehicles
Electric cars comprised 54% of all new vehicle sales in Norway for 2019. This makes Norway the first country to have sold more electric...
On Monday 44% of Germany's electricity came from wind power
data available at https://windeurope.org/about-wind/daily-wind
Japan aims to eliminate gasoline vehicles by 2035
Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in the next 15 years, the government announced on the 25th, last week in a plan to...
Tesco confirms it removed 1 billion pieces of plastic in 2020
Tesco announces that it has removed one billion pieces of plastic from its UK business in just one year. In 2020, by working with its...
Dogger Bank Wind Farm to power 6 million UK homes
Dogger Bank Wind Farm and GE Renewable Energy have confirmed GE as preferred turbine supplier for Dogger Bank C, announcing at the same...
Drip irrigation system developed to solve rice paddy problem
An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world...
Vertical Future unveils new vertical farm in Deptford, London with 172% higher yield
UK-based controlled-environment-agriculture (CEA) solutions provider Vertical Future has unveiled its new approach to vertical farming,...
Iceland to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% by 2030
Iceland aims to reduce the country's greenhouse emissions by 55% by 2030, compared with levels in 1990, the government said on Thursday....
Tesco removes 20m items of plastic from Christmas range
The UK’s largest supermarket said its own-label crackers were plastic-free for the first time – cutting more than 14m pieces from the...
Denmark agrees deal to have 775,000 electric cars by 2030, 30% of current cars on road
Denmark on Friday agreed on a deal with parliament to put at least 775,000 electric or hybrid cars on Danish roads by 2030 in its latest...
Aviva launches solar carport at Perth offices
Aviva, with support from the Scottish Government, has launched one of the UK’s largest combined solar carports and energy storage...
Billionaire UK investor aims to force hundreds of companies to act on climate
British billionaire Chris Hohn is aiming to force hundreds of U.S. and European companies to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by...
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