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Solar grows faster than we can imagine: US projections were 4,813 percent off
Solar energy keeps massively outperforming expectations. Here’s a nice example. Every two years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), issues scenarios about how much solar, wind and conventional energy the future holds for the US. A new analysis has found that the EIA’s ten-year Read More...
Argentina’s vegan Mondays, other attempts to persuade people to stop eating meat
Five percent of the world’s cows live in Argentina and, for years, the Argentinians were the world’s biggest beefeaters (a title they have lost to neighboring Uruguay). However, in response to an obesity crisis, life is changing in Argentina and the presidential palace has instituted meat-free Read More...
It doesn’t get much cuter: watch this video of 36 baby giant pandas
The panda is the symbol for the preciousness of nature. It’s one of the rarest and most endangered bears on the planet. Despite tremendous efforts to save them, the species has proven delicate when it comes to breeding and raising in captivity, a step required in order to release them back into Read More...
Doing this for 30 minutes a day can help you live longer
It sometimes feels like if you want to truly make a difference in your health, you need to hit the gym every day or make every workout as intense as possible. But new research suggests that simply walking more can have a real impact on lifespan. In fact, people in the study who walked just 150 Read More...
Climate change: Children to sue European countries
A group of Portuguese children whose district was ravaged by deadly forest fires this summer is to sue 47 European nations, accusing them of failing to take action on climate change. The seven youngsters, aged eight to 18, are taking on the member states of the Council of Europe, who together Read More...
Millennials’ search for experiences over luxury drives Airbnb’s growth in Africa
In the last five years, more than 2 million people have found holiday accommodation in Africa through Airbnb which now has over 100,000 listings on the continent. African hosts earned $139 million in the last year, according to a new Airbnb Read More...
Walking study corroborates Hippocrates’ prescriptive wisdom
Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) was a Greek physician who is considered by most to be the father of modern medicine. Long ago, Hippocrates wisely observed that “walking is the best medicine” and prescribed peripatetic exercise as a panacea to help citizens of Ancient Greece maintain a sound mind Read More...
Sweden to get Europe's biggest car battery factory
Start-up company Northvolt said Thursday it had picked its home country Sweden to build Europe's biggest factory for electric car batteries, rivaling Tesla's American "Gigafactory". The company said it had selected Skelleftea, a coastal town in the country's industrial north-east, for the site Read More...
This startup turns climate pollution into fish feed
At the rate at which we’re harvesting fish from the ocean, we may not have enough food to feed farmed fish, let alone humans. That’s why a startup is replacing fish food with something more sustainable: microbes grown with carbon dioxide. The startup feeds carbon dioxide to microbes that can Read More...
Can humans communicate telepathically with another while they’re dreaming
What if while in the midst of a dream, you encountered a close friend of yours and had a conversation that you both recalled the next day. Dream telepathy suggests that human beings could actually communicate with one another while dreaming. See here what the studies are saying about the Read More...