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Optimizing vertical farming by varying light, humidity, and other growing conditions
Optimizing vertical farming by varying light, humidity, and other growing conditionsScience

Optimizing vertical farming by varying light, humidity, and other growing conditions

How can we provide healthy, vitamin-rich food to growing urban populations? One solution is to cultivate crops indoors, in stacked layers of growing platforms. Such…
SourceSourceOctober 12, 2024 Full article
Extreme rainfall poses growing health risks
Extreme rainfall poses growing health risksScience

Extreme rainfall poses growing health risks

An international study led by Helmholtz Munich has shed new light on the health impacts of extreme rainfall events, revealing that such weather patterns significantly…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 10, 2024 Full article
Is your favorite fashion brand truly sustainable or just greenwashing?
Is your favorite fashion brand truly sustainable or just greenwashing?News

Is your favorite fashion brand truly sustainable or just greenwashing?

As consumers grow increasingly aware of climate change and its impacts, they’re rethinking the environmental footprint of their choices, particularly in the fashion industry. While…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 10, 2024 Full article
Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWF
Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWFNews

Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWF

Paris, France (AFP) - Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70 percent in the last half-century, according to the latest edition of…
SourceSourceOctober 10, 2024 Full article
Overshooting 1.5C risks ‘irreversible’ climate impact: study
Overshooting 1.5C risks ‘irreversible’ climate impact: studyClimateNews

Overshooting 1.5C risks ‘irreversible’ climate impact: study

By Nick Perry | AFP Paris, France - Any breach of what climate scientists agree is the safer limit on global warming would result in…
SourceSourceOctober 9, 2024 Full article
Nature conservation is a public good, not a market
Nature conservation is a public good, not a marketNews

Nature conservation is a public good, not a market

By Euan Ritchie, Deakin University and Yung En Chee | University of Melbourne | 360info Private investment in conservation is always welcome but the evidence…
SourceSourceOctober 9, 2024 Full article
Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: study
Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: studyNews

Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: study

Washington, United States (AFP) - Climate change intensified the rains and winds of Hurricane Helene by around 10 percent, according to a study published Wednesday,…
SourceSourceOctober 9, 2024 Full article
Hurricane Milton restrengthens to Category 5: NHC
Hurricane Milton restrengthens to Category 5: NHCNews

Hurricane Milton restrengthens to Category 5: NHC

Washington, United States (AFP) - Hurricane Milton regained power Tuesday to become a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (270 kph)…
SourceSourceOctober 8, 2024 Full article
Using economic strategy to save Puerto Rico’s endangered coquí frog
Using economic strategy to save Puerto Rico’s endangered coquí frogScience

Using economic strategy to save Puerto Rico’s endangered coquí frog

A new study explores a novel approach to conservation, highlighting how modern portfolio theory - a tool commonly used in financial markets - can be…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 7, 2024 Full article
Florida orders evacuations as Hurricane Milton strengthens
Florida orders evacuations as Hurricane Milton strengthensNews

Florida orders evacuations as Hurricane Milton strengthens

By Sarah TITTERTON | AFP Washington, United States (UPDATED) - Survivors of deadly Hurricane Helene along the Florida coast were ordered to evacuate again on…
SourceSourceOctober 7, 2024 Full article
Global water resources at risk: WMO report warns of increasing hydrological instability
Global water resources at risk: WMO report warns of increasing hydrological instabilityClimate

Global water resources at risk: WMO report warns of increasing hydrological instability

The year 2023 marked a critical low point for global water resources, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) latest State of Global Water Resources…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 7, 2024 Full article
Milton becomes hurricane on path to storm-battered Florida: NHC
Milton becomes hurricane on path to storm-battered Florida: NHCNews

Milton becomes hurricane on path to storm-battered Florida: NHC

Miami, United States (AFP) - Storm Milton became a hurricane Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said, as it barrelled toward the western coast of Florida…
SourceSourceOctober 6, 2024 Full article
Flash flooding kills three in northern Thailand
Flash flooding kills three in northern ThailandNews

Flash flooding kills three in northern Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand (AFP) - Flash flooding in popular Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai has killed three people, a health official said Sunday, as visitors evacuated…
SourceSourceOctober 6, 2024 Full article
How cities can avoid overtourism before it hits
How cities can avoid overtourism before it hitsNews

How cities can avoid overtourism before it hits

By Kathleen Andereck, Arizona State University in Tempe | 360info The best solution is prevention and a sustainable tourism plan goes a long way in…
SourceSourceOctober 6, 2024 Full article
Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floods
Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floodsNews

Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floods

By Elvis BARUKCIC, with Mina PEJAKOVIC in Belgrade | AFP Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina - The search for dozens of people reported missing in floods…
SourceSourceOctober 5, 2024 Full article
Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissions
Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissionsNews

Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissions

Washington, United States (AFP) - The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block environmental regulations aimed at reducing harmful emissions of mercury from power…
SourceSourceOctober 5, 2024 Full article
Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Krathon batters south
Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Krathon batters southNews

Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Krathon batters south

Taipei, Taiwan (AFP) - Workers removed felled trees and swept up shattered glass in southern Taiwan on Friday as Typhoon Krathon was downgraded to a…
SourceSourceOctober 4, 2024 Full article
Europe’s 30-year cities movement pushes for a faster green transition
Europe’s 30-year cities movement pushes for a faster green transitionNews

Europe’s 30-year cities movement pushes for a faster green transition

The 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns (ESCT), held in Aalborg, Denmark, brought together mayors and representatives from across Europe to renew their…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 3, 2024 Full article
Turning dairy farm methane into biogas could save UK £400 million annually, study
Turning dairy farm methane into biogas could save UK £400 million annually, studyNewsScience

Turning dairy farm methane into biogas could save UK £400 million annually, study

New research reveals that methane emissions from slurry stores on dairy farms may be up to five times greater than official estimates suggest, offering a…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 3, 2024 Full article
Typhoon Krathon makes landfall in Taiwan’s south: weather agency
Typhoon Krathon makes landfall in Taiwan’s south: weather agencyNews

Typhoon Krathon makes landfall in Taiwan’s south: weather agency

Kaohsiung, Taiwan (AFP) - Typhoon Krathon made landfall in Taiwan's south on Thursday, the island's weather agency said, after unleashing strong gusts and rains that…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2024 Full article
Thunderstorms are a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays, scientists find
Thunderstorms are a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays, scientists findNews

Thunderstorms are a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays, scientists find

By Pierre Celerier | AFP Paris, France - Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday,…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2024 Full article
Major international drought conference seeks to increase resilience
Major international drought conference seeks to increase resilienceNews

Major international drought conference seeks to increase resilience

A major international conference aimed at addressing drought resilience kicks off as climate change amplifies global drought risks. The Drought Resilience +10 Conference, held at…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 1, 2024 Full article
Despite snowy winter, Swiss glaciers ‘on track to disappear’: monitor
Despite snowy winter, Swiss glaciers ‘on track to disappear’: monitorNews

Despite snowy winter, Swiss glaciers ‘on track to disappear’: monitor

By Elodie LE MAOU with Agnès PEDRERO in Geneva | AFP Gletsch, Switzerland - A snowy winter provided no respite for Switzerland's glaciers, which shed…
SourceSourceOctober 1, 2024 Full article