The price of building windfarms has plummeted to a record low
At a government auction in the UK, two new offshore windfarms were awarded to developers at £57.50 per MWh. That’s half the price new offshore windfarms were being awarded at just two years ago. With a new generation of even bigger turbines expected to generate power efficiently in the near Read More...
7 ways to deal with coworkers you don’t like
You may be able to choose your friends in life, but it’s not always possible to choose your coworkers. And more often than not, you’ll come across some colleagues at work throughout your life that you just don’t work well with. Here’s how to preserve your sanity when working with colleagues Read More...
Put a price on urban trees – and halt this chainsaw massacre
It’s a grim season for urban trees. The usual bustle of bicycles beneath a grand parade of 140-year-old chestnut trees that crosses Tooting Common, in south London, will cease Read More...
GM boasts “the world’s first mass-producible driverless car”
General Motors has unveiled the third version of its self-driving car–the first such car “that meets the redundancy and safety requirements we believe are necessary to operate without a driver,” Kyle Vogt, CEO of the General Motors-owned Read More...
Microbes in flower nectar affect pollination
September 11, 2017 Stanford’s community ecology lab has found that microbes in nectar can affect bird and insect interactions with the flowers and, as a result, whether they get pollinated. Dipping its beak into the sweet nectar of a flower, a Read More...
Zero-waste shop in UK displays how plastic-free lifestyle is possible
Astounded by the sheer amount of waste produced from packaging, a family-run grocery store in the UK has abandoned all forms of packaging to encourage customers to bring any and all of their own reusable containers for packing food. Rather than recycling, customers repurpose old ice-cream tubs or Read More...
Would the world be better off if everyone became vegetarian?
Red meat production, which includes all of the steps that go into supplying animals that turn into hamburgers, takes a toll on the environment in the form of greenhouse gases and the land we use. With that in mind, would the world be ridden of these environmental issues if we just stopped eating Read More...
This Japanese farm harvests sunlight and mushrooms
A new solar project in Japan mixes solar power generation with mushroom farming. While the solar farm collects sunlight at the top of the panels, cloud-eared mushrooms will grow underneath them. The dual-purpose business model strips away the hurdles farmers currently face when trying to enter Read More...
China sets fossil fuel deadline and accelerates electric cars push
As China prepares to end sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles to meet its carbon emissions reduction target by 2030, the world’s second-biggest economy is pushing to accelerate its own electric car manufacturing companies. The move will have a profound impact on both the environment as well as Read More...
How to make a relationship last, according to science
What makes a relationship last? It’s a question people have been asking for centuries, and now a professor may have found the answer after analyzing more than 1,000 studies on relationships. Here’s a list of strategies for making relationships Read More...