Three Just Stop Oil activists charged after soup thrown at Van Gogh paintings
Three protesters have been charged with criminal damage and will appear in court after soup was thrown at two Vincent van Gogh paintings on Friday.
Take a look inside a $1.1 million ‘zero emissions’ home
Residential and commercial buildings account for almost a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose
You would be forgiven for thinking that your wood pulp top is sustainable. But you might be surprised to hear just how many forests are being felled to make it
Scaling up: the app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities
Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global
Prickly paddy melon weed enzymes show potential as sustainable cement alternative
A world-first study has found enzymes from the prickly paddy melon weed can create a sustainable alternative to cement.
More than 600K pounds of electronic waste has been diverted from landfills thanks to Colorado teenagers
More than 600,000 pounds of mostly electronic waste has been diverted from landfills over the past 12 years by the students who run Tiger Recycling at Cañon City High School.
There are 1.5 billion tires wasted annually. There’s a better way to recycle them
Natural rubber is vital to tire production since it is stronger, more wear-resistant and more flexible than synthetic rubber. Multiple blends of natural and synthetic rubber are used for making different parts of a tire.
Recycling: What’s the difference between biodegradable, compostable and recyclable?
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of the UK cautions consumers about the misleading use of waste terms such as ‘recyclable’, ‘biodegradable’, and ‘compostable’ in advertisements, as products often don’t break down as easily as stated, contributing to environmental pollution.
The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp
The Lower Sioux tribe in Minnesota is pioneering the country’s first integrated hempcrete operation, transforming industrially-grown hemp into a construction material for sustainable, healthy housing. This initiative, unique in the U.S., also aims to tackle the tribe’s critical shortage of jobs and housing, while acting as a model for other Indigenous tribes.
Experts revive ancient techniques to make concrete more sustainable
A team of experts from EPFL, ETH Zurich, and Archiplein has developed a new type of non-reinforced concrete from stone offcuts. Using methods found in historical archives, the team reduced their use of carbon-intensive cement. They built and tested six load-bearing walls using recovered stone-quarry waste and three types of mortar-based binders.
Band Walks 870 Miles on Tour to Promote More Sustainability in the Music Industry
Filkin’s Drift, a band of two based in Birmingham, UK, have been highlighting sustainability in their latest tour by walking about 870 miles along the coast of Wales.
Two South Africans among 188 women heading to Antarctica for environmental sustainability programme
More than 180 women, including two South Africans, are embarking on a voyage to Antarctica in November to promote sustainability and study its ecosystem.
The pioneer biotech turning seaweed into bioplastics
Sustainable biotech innovator Kelpi has secured funding to further develop its pioneering technology creating bioplastics from seaweed.
Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation
A judge in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from a protected area of former rainforest in the Amazon
Take a look inside a $1.1 million ‘zero emissions’ home
Residential and commercial buildings account for almost a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka’s natural flood buffers
Sri Lanka’s capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands which are teeming with life.
Constantine Arch in Rome damaged by lightning during violent storm
Residents tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after more than 60mm of rainfall falls on Rome in less than an hour
Coral Restoration’s Wake Up Call
Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality.