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Cloning giant sequoias to battle climate change
California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains host the biggest and oldest sequoia on Earth, some close to 100m tall and up to 3000 years old. A team of about a dozen expert tree climbers volunteered for an expedition, organised by the Archangel...
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Friedrichshafen expo takes advantage of the great outdoors
Outdoor activities appeal more than ever. And one the most popular ones is hiking. In Germany alone this market is worth 13 billion euros, with about 60% of the population claiming to be occasional or regular hikers. The industry is...
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Green road: a testing time on Sweden’s eHighway
The first so-called ‘eHighway’ in the world is being tested in Sweden in a bid to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, according to its developers. The project was initiated by Sweden’s transport authority and is the...
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Plastic fantastic: Dutch company trials method of cleaning the oceans
About eight million tons of plastic enters the oceans every year. And environmentalists have long sounded the alarm bell over this plastic pollution that is killing a huge number of seabirds and marine mammals. Fresh hope comes from the...
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Ban Ki-moon urges global unity at 10th annual EU Development Days
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Brussels to debate international development policy as part of the 10th annual EU Development Days. He stressed the need for countries to work together, saying: ‘‘national borders do not defend...
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EU delays weed-killer vote
EU officials have delayed a vote on whether to grant a new licence to a controversial weedkiller. Experts on both sides of the Atlantic are divided as to whether glyphosate causes cancer. An EU committee had been widely tipped to the...
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Waste not, want not. Business Planet looks at the food we throw away
Unleashing the power of the collaborative economy to fight food waste, while creating new business opportunities at the same time. This is already happening in Italy, so Business Planet went to find out more… Euronews’ Giacomo Segantini...
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Brazil: dam collapse lawsuit
Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed a civil lawsuit against iron mining company Samarco and its owners, Vale and BHP Billiton over an environmental disaster last...
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‘Tomorrow’: a message of hope for a better, greener and more sustainable future
‘Tomorrow’ is an inspiring documentary by French filmmakers Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion. Divided into five chapters, ranging from agriculture to energy, the economy, democracy and education, the film follows its makers as they travel...
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Solar panels take to the water as new farms flourish
Europe’s largest floating solar farm is ready to switch on. Built on a reservoir, (the Queen Elizabeth II), near Heathrow airport in Britain, the solar array is to supply energy to a water treatment plant, the sort of facility that...
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US Senate says national rules needed for driverless vehicles
A US Senate panel has recommended federal laws covering the entire country be put in place for the oncoming driverless car revolution, and has warned a patchwork of state laws could slow development of the new technology. Differing rules...
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Boost your business and the environment with the European Ecolabel system
This week, Business Planet has been to the Czech capital to find out more about the European Ecolabel system. How does it work and how can businesses benefit from the system? Business Planet’s Serge Rombi and the team flew to Prague to...
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Doomsday Vault ensures a failsafe backup for the world’s seeds
What would we do for food in the event of a global disaster, such as climate change or nuclear war? Well that’s where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, otherwise known as the Doomsday Vault, comes in. It’s a kind of International Rescue...
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Red squirrels could disappear warn conservationists
Conservationists in Scotland are watching the march of the grey squirrel northward with considerable alarm. They believe the red squirrel, indigenous to the British Isles, could be completely wiped out in a generation, and they are...
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Citizens and scientists earn their stripes counting Kenya’s Grevy’s zebras
How do you tell one zebra from another? By looking at their stripes, of course – with a special software that can identify their natural “barcode”. This has allowed conservationists in Kenya to carry out the first ever major census of...
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Vultures help combat illegal garbage dumps in Peru
Doing their best to clean up their reputation – vultures equipped with cameras have become the main protagonists of a creative social media campaign aimed at raising awareness about illegal rubbish dumps in Lima. Besides its four...
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EMAS: Combining competitiveness with environmental performance
In this edition of Business Planet, we visit the Onassis Foundation in Athens to find out how we can transform waste into raw materials. This concept is the basis of circular economy and also provides a real opportunity for SMEs....
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Large sinkhole spotted at Tremont intersection
A massive sinkhole along East 183rd Street and Bathgate Avenue has left Tremont neighbors concerned. News 12’s Elly Morillo is at the scene with the latest.
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Balkan nations create committee to protect shared endangered lake
Lake Prespa borders North Macedonia, Albania and Greece.
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Storms kill at least four people in the southern Alps in Switzerland
Storms in Switzerland and northern Italy caused extensive flooding and landslides, leaving at least four people dead, authorities said Sunday.
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Protests erupt in Italy as G7 ministers meet to discuss climate crisis
The Group of Seven will meet in Turin on Monday, in the first big session of environment talks since the world pledged to transition away from coal, oil and gas at the UN's COP28 climate summit in December.
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Nitrogen reduction target proving controversial for farmers at Dutch election
In a country of less than 18 million people and more than 116 million livestock, agriculture reigns supreme.
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Researchers from Switzerland are using drones to monitor the health of the rainforest
The team’s project has reached the finals of the global XPRIZE Rainforest competition which encourages the development of technology to measure and monitor the rainforest ecosystem.
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European Parliament approves mega package of EU climate measures
Included in the bundle of legislation, is a