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European Union’s food safety agency says worms are safe to eat
Today’s batch of EFSA scientific opinions on novel food applications includes the first completed assessment of a proposed insect-derived...
Paris to turn Champs Élysées into 'extraordinary garden' after 2024 summer olympics
The Champs-Élysées, a 1.9km-long avenue in central Paris, will undergo a major €250m makeover following the 2024 Summer Olympics. The...
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
New monkey among 503 new species described by Natural History Museum scientists in 2020
Despite an uncertain year, Museum scientists have described 503 species new to science. As the climate crisis continues to unfold, never...
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...
Renewable sources met 46.3% of Germany's power consumption in 2020
Renewable sources met 46.3% of Germany’s power consumption in 2020, 3.8 percentage points more than in 2019, utility industry association...
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...
Cargo bikes are the future of last mile delivery (and more)
Cargo bikes are often faced with misconceptions about their potential and use for large scale logistics. In order to clarify Pedal Me...
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....
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé named top plastic polluters for third year in a row
This year, Break Free From Plastic’s brand audit – “BRANDED Vol III: Demanding Corporate Accountability for Plastic Pollution” — an...
France to help farmers to abandon glyphosate weedkiller
France will give financial aid to farmers who agree to halt use of glyphosate, the farm ministry said on Monday after President Macron...
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