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Solar farms offer biodiversity boost, study finds
Industry-backed study finds fields with solar arrays increase plant and bird diversity and have greater numbers of butterflies and bumblebees Solar farms can significantly improve local biodiversity, delivering benefits to wildlife and potentially even surrounding crops, according to a new Read More...
Natural gas increasingly becoming an unnecessary bridge to nowhere
Setting a new lopsided quarterly record, renewable sources (i.e., wind, solar, biomass and hydropower) outpaced—in fact, swamped—natural gas by a factor of more than 70:1 for new electrical generating capacity placed in-service during the first three months of calendar year 2016. Read More...
”Mindfulness therapy works as well as anti-depressant drugs”
Mindfulness therapy works as well as some anti-depressant drugs in fighting depression, according to a major new study. The study—the largest-ever analysis of research on the subject—found mindfulness-based cognitive therapy helped people just as much as commonly prescribed anti-depressant Read More...
Study: One minute of all-out exercise is enough to maintain health and fitness
What’s the most beneficial type of exercise? The answer is interval training, and you don’t need much of it at all to maintain good health and fitness. Interval training is a type of workout that consists of an extremely draining but brief burst of exercise—a sprint—followed by light Read More...
Austria joins countries aiming for rapid ban gas and diesel cars
In recent weeks India, The Netherlands, and Norway have announced that they are considering banning sales of new non-electric cars from 2025 onwards. Now there are reports that Austria is joining this group and it wants to get even sooner to the all-electric car era: in 2020. The news underlines an Read More...
Hillary Clinton wants an administration that looks like America with a gender-balanced cabinet
This shouldn’t be the news it is: If elected president, Hillary Clinton says she wants that women make up 50 percent of her cabinet appointments. The Democratic presidential candidate was asked in a television interview whether she would follow the recent example of the Canadian prime minister Read More...
Positive media can make us better people
Most research about the impact of media on society is about the negative influence of bad news. Does it lead to more violence and crime? The results of studies are not always consistent and clear. However, research shows that the correlation in the opposite direction is very clear. Media Read More...
Eat less meat to reforest the Earth!
Scientists have discovered that we can feed the world and stop destroying forests by eating less meat. If we all went vegetarian that would reduce deforestation by 94%. And if we went the whole way to veganism enough land would be freed up for a new forest the size of the Amazon, and allow a Read More...
10 ways to boost your emotional resilience, backed by research
Ever dealt with a really difficult situation? We’ve all had our emotional resilience tested. Sometimes it feels like you just want to give up. How do the toughest people summon the will to keep going? Steven Southwick and Dennis Charney have studied resilient people for over 20 years. They spoke Read More...
What one milk carton says about sustainability messaging around the world
You might not realise it when you walk along the aisles of your local supermarket, but you are surrounded by marketing messages. These differ in every country. Buying milk in the UK? You’ll probably see messages about climate change and the environment. Go to China and the packaging is more Read More...