Businesses that try to come clean about their impact on nature can end up concealing more than they reveal: Fahroni/Shutterstock Humans have overfished the ocean, cleared forests, polluted water and created a climate crisis by burning fossil fuels. These actions are affecting biodiversity around the world, from remote islands to our own backyards. Biodiversity can …
Aluminium foil that can clean water: we’ve developed a coating which attracts and traps dangerous microbes: John Fredricks/NurPhoto More than 2 billion people around the world do not have access to safe, uncontaminated drinking water. Around 418 million of them live in African countries. The problem is most acute in rural communities, where people’s primary …
There are benefits to sharing a bed with your pet – as long as you’re scrupulously clean: Should your dog share your bed? Some owners have better quality sleep alongside their furry friends Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images When heading off for a night’s slumber, does your pet follow? Perhaps the cat curls up at the end …
Making fossil fuel companies accountable for their products’ emissions would support the clean energy transition: Konrad Kozaczuk/Shutterstock I recently found myself among a group of alarmed scientists, writing a fervent plea to the European Commission to be more ambitious when it comes to corporate greenhouse gas reporting requirements. Our open letter calling for comprehensive disclosure …
Don’t just wait for the water firms – three things we can do right now to clean up Britain’s rivers: Simon Corrall / shutterstock Britain’s rivers and coasts are polluted – there’s no escaping that fact – and water companies are coming under more and more pressure to fix things. Most recently, a law firm …
Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry: Krakenimages.com/Shutterstock The privatisation of water companies in England and Wales was supposed to bring efficiency and investment to a vital sector that had been starved of public funding. But since 1989, the industry has failed to …
Cholera: vaccines can stop the spread, but the biggest deterrent is clean water: A member of the Syria Immunization Team holding cholera vaccinations. Anas Alkharboutli/picture alliance via Getty Images South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is …
Plastic pollution: campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up – but manufacturers are fighting back: Jose Calsina / shutterstock Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it’s threatening our human rights. That’s the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement, warning against …
Dirty tea towels are breeding grounds for harmful bacteria – here’s how to clean them properly: Yep, when you've finished, both of those need to go in the wash. pexels/karolina grabowska Kitchens can harbour all sorts of germs and bacteria. These can arrive via humans, pets, uncooked food or even plants, meaning that a high …
Unprecedented marine heatwave underlines the urgency to clean up UK rivers and coasts: Seagrass meadows are an important part of the UK’s marine environment. Benjamin Jones/Project Seagrass, Author provided Thousands of people took to the UK’s seas and rivers recently in a nationwide “paddle-out” protest to demand an end to sewage spilling into the country’s …
From waste to clean water: tiny carbon particles can do the job: Clean water is in short supply around the world. But it doesn't have to be. borgogniels/Getty Images Many futuristic novels and films have explored what the world might look like without water. But water scarcity isn’t a problem for the far-off future: it’s …
To clean up England’s rivers we need to know how much sewage is dumped – but water firms won’t tell us: A sewer overflow maintained by United Utilities that flows into the River Tame in Greater Manchester. Jamie Woodward, Author provided UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how …
Plastic pollution in Nigeria: whose job is it to clean up the mess?: Companies can do more to reduce plastic waste. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Take a walk or drive through the streets of most Nigerian cities, and you will see plastic waste everywhere. The country’s rivers, lakes and ocean are also full …
Angola’s peatlands trap carbon and clean the region’s water – how we mapped this newly found landscape: Ask most people what they picture when thinking about natural “carbon sinks” – ecosystems that absorb and store greenhouse gases – and they’ll probably describe a forest. Reforestation is a common feature of climate change plans. But there’s …
Nigeria has a coastal litter problem: it’s time to clean up: Plastic waste washed up by the sea lies on the beach of the coastal city of St. Louis, Senegal. Lucia Weiß/picture alliance via Getty Images Bottles. Plastic bags. Surgical facemasks. These are just some of the 29,029 items we found along the 180km Araromi …
Nuclear fusion: how scientists can turn latest breakthrough into a new clean power source: Laser energy being converted into X-rays inside a box, which compress a fuel capsule until it implodes. LLNL Researchers in the US have finally fulfilled an objective that was set decades ago: the achievement of “ignition” – getting more energy out …
Clean up music tags with a Groovy script: Clean up music tags with a Groovy script Chris Hermansen Tue, 08/30/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Lately, I’ve been looking at how Groovy streamlines Java. In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In …
Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy: Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy Chris Hermansen Mon, 08/29/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In the last article, …