August 2023 is now sadly known as the month containing Earth Overshoot Day. This means, possibly for the first time in human history, we have used and consumed more planetary resources than can be renewed in one year. Bad though…
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Recently renewable sources of energy have been the biggest energy source in Britain, larger even than gas and supplying roughly a third of our energy needs.
A company called Ran Marine has invented a robot with a mouth like a shark that ‘eats’ pollution in the sea. How cool is that!
Last year in Europe, the sale of new heat pumps saved 8 million tonnes of CO2 from being pumped into the atmosphere. The saving as a whole for all heat pumps in Europe is 54 megatonnes of CO2.
It’s all going in the right direction in the EU. More than a fifth of its energy needs are now coming from renewal sources. Also, globally, we have created more sources of renewal energy in the last 5 years than…
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Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore laboratory in the USA have for the first time successfully produced more energy than they put in via nuclear fusion. In time this could lead to almost limitless energy for the world. It would be…
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Today (31/10/22) it was announced that Lula da Silva has beaten Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election. Lula is committed to stopping the destruction of the Brazilian rain forest, the “lungs” of the planet, while, as president for the…
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Off the North East coast of Scotland the Seagreen wind farm recently began operations. It will become the largest wind farm in the world and will indeed power 6 million homes.
This wind farm, with 114 turbines, is now coming on stream, 17 miles off the Scottish coast. When fully operational, it will provide enough power for 1 million homes. Each turbine will have a maximum blade tip height of 614…
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Tree Aid are working with communities in Africa to create a huge wall of trees and biodiversity 8000 kilometers wide across the Sahel. It will be good for the environment but also for green jobs. Hopefully it will empower, local…
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