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UN chief urges govts to protect women during virus lockdown
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is urging governments around the world to include the protection of women in their response to the deadly novel coronavirus…
Singapore quarantines 20,000 migrant workers
Singapore has told 20,000 foreign workers to stay in their dormitories for 14 days as coronavirus cases increase in the city state. Two dormitories have been…
H&M reaches clothing take-back target early, collecting 29,000 tonnes of used garments
This represents a 40% year-on-year increase in clothing taken back. The milestone, revealed in the high-street fashion giant’s latest Sustainability Performance Report, comes four years…
Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists
The glory of the world’s oceans could be restored within a generation, according to a major new scientific review. It reports rebounding sea life, from…
Google Data Centers’ Secret Cost: Billions of Gallons of Water
In August 2019, the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association built a 16-foot pyramid of jugs in its main entrance in Phoenix. The goal was to…
Climate change: Warming clips the nightingale’s wings
Rising temperatures may be having a profound physical impact on one of the world’s favourite songbirds. Researchers in Spain found that over a 20-year period,…
Study offers new insight into the impact of ancient migrations on the European landscape
Neolithic populations have long been credited with bringing about a revolution in farming practices across Europe. However, a new study suggests it was not until…
One in four women is not free to say no to sex, U.N. research finds
Only about half the world’s women can make their own decisions on sexual consent and health care, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning such…
Fed will do what it takes to help Americans, Daly says
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly on Tuesday said she believes the U.S. is probably already in recession, as millions of people lose their jobs…
Will coronavirus make the gender pay gap worse?
Advances in closing the worldwide gender pay gap are at risk of being reversed by the coronavirus, experts and advocates warn, as women take time…
Britain’s Tesco recruits 35,000 workers to get through coronavirus crisis
Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco (TSCO.L) said on Tuesday it had recruited 35,000 additional workers in the last 10 days to help get it through the…
California Pushes for Solar Panel Waste Policy
California, like many states, has a problem with a rapid influx of end-of-life solar panels, despite that a law (SB 489) passed five years ago…
’Burnt and dumped’: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Unilever and Nestlé plastics waste fuelling climate change
Four of the world’s largest users of plastic packaging – Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever and Nestlé – are responsible for half a million tonnes of plastic…
Plans are underway to build huge, floating offshore wind turbine in Europe
Spanish utility Iberdrola is heading a consortium aiming to develop a large-scale floating offshore wind turbine in the North Sea, as the sector looks to…
EPA urges states to support water, wastewater operations during COVID-19
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler has sent a letter to Governors in all 50 states, territories and Washington, D.C. urging them to…
World’s worst air adds to Serbian capital’s coronavirus woes
Belgrade’s residents on Friday isolated themselves not only from coronavirus but also from acrid smoke, which defied strong winds to transform the Serbian capital into…
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