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The city 'recharges' with organic waste
Based on food waste, organic fertilizer and cooking oil, a city in Sweden has significantly reduced fossil fuel consumption, according to The New York Times.
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More than 100,000 biogas technology projects are applied
According to the Project Management Board of the Biogas Program for the Animal Husbandry Sector in Vietnam (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), by the end of…
Environment
Air pollution causes more harm than tobacco, war and HIV / AIDS
Air pollution, which is the main cause of burning fossil fuels, is shortening the global human life expectancy at an average of 1.8 years / person, becoming
Environment
Air pollution reduces human life by 2 years
Air pollution contributes to lung disease, stroke, myocardial infarction, reducing human life expectancy 1.5-2 years.
Environment
Burning too much fossil fuel, humans are eroding Earth's oxygen source
It is estimated that fossil fuel consumption accounts for 60-80% of the total oxygen consumption in the last century.
Environment
There will be millions more people facing floods warmed by the Earth
The warning is given in a study published in the American Journal of Advanced Science on January 10.
Environment
NASA discovered a strong increase in carbon emissions in the winter
The findings were obtained through data from the Carbon 2 Observation Satellite (OCO-2) launched by NASA in 2014.
Environment
Risk of CO2 emissions from Central African peat swamps
Researchers have reported the discovery of peat lagoons in the Central African region of the United Kingdom's approximate England area with the same amount of CO2 as the…
Environment
Finland will become the first country without coal
The European country of Finland has just announced plans to strive to remove coal from industrial and social life before 2030.
Environment
Lack of breathing air, India surpassed China in terms of the number of deaths due to air pollution
News website Hindustan Times quoted Greenpeace as saying that the number of deaths from air pollution in India has surpassed China in 2015 due to the lack of appropriate…
Environment
Where is carbon stored on Earth?
We often talk about carbon, about how it pollutes the environment ... but do you know how carbon is made and where it is stored on Earth?
Environment
The Chinese atmosphere makes people lose 25 months of life
Exposure to air pollutants causes one million Chinese people to die early each year.
Environment
Renewable energy is enough to provide 1/4 of the world's electricity demand
According to the energy policy network REN21, a record investment in clean energy in 2015 has made the largest annual increase in the ability to generate renewable energ…
Environment
Antarctica: CO2 density is record high after 4 million years
This is the first time Antarctica has recorded CO2 in the atmosphere, up to 400 parts per million (ppm), something that has never happened in the coldest continent in th…
Environment
Exploiting the Earth's geothermal energy
Geothermal sources provide stable energy and are less harmful to the environment than fossil or nuclear fuels.