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February 17, 2024
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EU agrees on heavily contested law to cut packaging waste

The controversial overhaul of the EU’s packaging waste rules was agreed in Brussels on Monday (4 Mar...

March 06, 2024
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Pro-nuclear countries back total opening up of EU funding for nuclear

Nuclear technologies should benefit from all types of EU funding, such as the European Investment Ba...

March 05, 2024
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Researchers learn how nectar-laden honey bees avoid overheating

Honey bees carrying nectar have the remarkable ability to adjust their flight behavior to avoid over...

March 02, 2024
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European power grids head towards an ever closer union – and a new watchdog

The rest of this decade will see deeper integration of EU electricity grids to enable a sharing of r...

February 29, 2024
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Carbon emissions from the destruction of mangrove forests predicted to increase by 50,000% by the en...

Mangrove forests cover approximately 0.1% of the Earth's land surface but play a vital role in provi...

February 28, 2024
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EU softens gas consumption curbs in sign energy crisis easing

The European Commission has asked EU countries to keep curbing their gas use but softened the policy...

February 28, 2024
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Earthquakes impact forest resilience for decades post-event, research suggests

For North America, the Tibetan Plateau and South America, recovery occurred within a few years and l...

February 27, 2024
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Microplastics found in every human placenta tested

Researchers reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrat...

February 24, 2024
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Plastic recycling with a protein anchor

Polystyrene is a widespread plastic that is essentially not recyclable when mixed with other materia...

February 24, 2024

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