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Original post on DW Whether their cargo is wheat, iron ore, or containers full of Chinese-made consumer electronics, ships are by far the most energy-efficient means of getting goods from point A to point B. Moving a tonne of cargo 100 km by modern freight train takes three or four times as much energy as […]

Original post on Universal-Sci Overcoming a series of setbacks, an international project to build what could be a revolutionary nuclear fusion reactor, which will produce renewable energy, has reached a major milestone. Half of the infrastructure required for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has now been completed — seven years after construction officially began in

Original post by Ismaila Chafe for Environews President Muhammadu Buhari attended One Planet’s Summit on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, along withover 60 heads of state and governments, as well as representatives of non-governmental  and private organisations. Following the theme, “Climate Change Financing,’’ President Buhari appealed to the international community to support Nigeria’s commitment to reducing the negative effects of climate change.

Original post on The Nation There is a revolution tending towards diversifying the economy and literally wean it away from overdependence on dwindling oil revenue. One sure way this is being driven is through the deliberate focus on agriculture as an alternative source of revenue. Thankfully, some banks have since keyed into the federal programmes

Original post on UtilityDive Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new chemical composite they have developed can capture, store and use lost thermal energy. The “thermal battery” is a hybrid material that uses molecular switches that change shape in response to light. It is made by combining fatty acids with an organic

Original post on DW Bye-bye buy buy Does Christmas really have to be synonymous with consuming in the name of a festive spirit? All that head-scratching to find the “perfect present” for the person who has everything? How about giving them nothing. Wrapped in… a smile? A shrug? Do-it-yourself If the idea of such gift-giving

Original post in The New York Times  In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it’s much harder to find clothes that don’t have some kind of negative impact on the planet. Textile manufacturers use complicated chemical and industrial processes to make clothing

DW representative- Ajit Niranjan conducted an interview with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev about climate change, the rivers in India and how he believes we can increase environmental consciousness. Ajit: Rivers in India are drying out and dying. What happens if we continue with the business-as-usual approach? Sadhguru: Many studies show that if we just continue, in the next

Original post on DW We know that polar ice melt is pushing up the global sea level. And we know that warmer ocean temperatures are melting ice shelves floating in the seas off Antarctica. But like ice cubes in a glass, because ice shelves are already in the water, they don’t raise sea levels when