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Robots could make recycling cheaper and safer
It makes sense to be wary of technologies designed to eliminate human labor. We’re humans ourselves, after all, and we can imagine how devastating it would be if bots could take over our jobs — if HAL or Siri or some other thing could saddle up to our standing desks and compose in-depth Read More...
Robots are coming for your recycling (and that's a good thing)
Robots are starting to take the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs away from humans—and that's why we built them. Working in a recycling facility is dangerous. Recent figures from the University of Illinois's School of Public Health show that workers in a recycling plant are more than twice as Read More...
Chile to create one of world's largest marine parks around Easter Island
Chile will create one of the world’s biggest marine parks around the Pacific waters of Easter Island, president Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. If the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people approve the plan after a consultation by the mainland government, fishing will be banned from a Read More...
One quarter of the world will run on clean energy by the end of the decade
The Paris-based International Energy Agency is perhaps the world’s most august energy advisory body. It was formed in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis to advise world governments on how to respond to supply shocks and to serve as a reliable source of nonpartisan information on global energy Read More...
Delhi Secretariat to run on solar energy
The Delhi Secretariat will be the first in the country to run completely on renewable and solar energy, the Delhi government announced on Monday. "The Delhi government in association with ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) will set up a three MW solar power plant at the Indraprastha Power Read More...
How an affluent neighborhood banished private cars for a month
Last week, Paris shooed cars from its downtown for a single photogenic day. Now a neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa is one-upping that car-free day with a celebration that kicks cars off the street for the entire month of October. As part of the EcoMobility World Festival, which started Read More...
Battling obesity in the classroom with exercise
There's another burst of seat-bouncing, giggling and shouting in researcher Rebecca Hasson's simulated classroom at the University of Michigan as Hasson catches study participant Marcus Patton cheating at Sorry! Marcus isn't having it. "How do you call that cheating?" demands Patton, an 11-year-old Read More...
VW scandal could herald revolution in investment industry
Volkswagen’s emissions scandal could revolutionise the investment management industry because it has proved that a company's corporate governance and environmental credentials must be taken seriously, the chief executive of Hermes Investment Management has said. Saker Nusseibeh said that Read More...
Swap just one hour of daily sitting with walking and you'll live longer
We are spending more time sitting then ever before in history, and it's not good for us. Researchers are studying the adverse effects of our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and they found that it's not too late to change. Replace one hour of sitting each day with walking, and you can decrease Read More...
China speeds up national network to charge electric cars
China has shown a resounding desire to battle climate change in the last couple years, signing deals with the U.S to reduce carbon emissions and setting an ambitious goal of 5 million green vehicles on its roads by 2020. Now China is working urgently to speed up the construction of a national Read More...