Environment & Sustainability

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Storm Leonardo devastates southern Portugal and Spain – video

Storm Leonardo has ravaged the southern regions of Spain and Portugal this week, leaving one man dead in Portugal and one woman missing in Spain Calls to postpone presidential election as Storm Leonardo lashes Portugal and Spain Continue reading…

Only seven petrol-powered cars sold in Norway in January

Data show 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars also sold, while the figure for battery electric vehicles was more than 2,000 Just seven petrol cars were sold in Norway last month, data shows. The country, which is the frontrunner in…

The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?

Kathleen Watts’ flowers bloom much brighter now that the wind no longer blows black. Pulling weeds in the garden outside her redbrick house, she recalled when coal dust would sometimes drift through her quiet corner of northern England, a rolling…

The US lost $35B in clean energy projects last year

For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the U.S., as solar costs fell…

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

Picture the bucolic little town of a fairy tale. At its core stand medieval buildings, a square where folks hawk their goods, and perhaps a well to provide water. Beyond the defensive wall radiate agricultural fields, where people toil to…

Risk-taking comes earlier in chimpanzees than in humans, study finds

Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in the most danger in adolescence, so the expectation has been that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), among our closest evolutionary cousins, follow…