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North American Bird Populations Are Collapsing in Places They Once Thrived: Study

North American bird populations are plummeting, especially in drylands, grasslands and the Arctic where they have historically been most abundant, new research has found. The...

Inter IKEA Appoints Lena Julle as New Chief Sustainability Officer

IKEA announced that the Inter IKEA Group has appointed Lena Julle as its Chief Sustainability Officer, taking over from outgoing CSO Pär Stenmark, who...

Coca-Cola Commits to Improve Recycling Claims Following EU Greenwashing Complaint

Coca-Cola has agreed to make a series of changes to the recycling claims on its plastic bottles, according to a statement today by the...

Environmental health recruitment struggle to be addressed by cross-continent recognition

The bodies representing Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and in Australia have signed an agreement which could help boost recruitment...

Climate trends in river flow revealed by global dataset

Important new data about river flow is now available from the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset, announced...

Second-life batteries from electric buses to be used for grid-scale energy storage

A new partnership aims to jointly design and develop a modular, scalable energy storage solution using second-life EV batteries. The agreement – between Connected...

Veolia partners with Star Energy to develop large scale geothermal projects

Resource recovery firm Veolia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Star Energy, a company said to be making significant strides in harnessing geothermal...

In Georgia, a fight over credit for its clean energy boom

If Joe Biden’s presidency had a capstone achievement, it was the Inflation Reduction Act, and if the IRA’s project of reindustrializing America through climate...

This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart disease-related deaths in 1 year

More than 16,000 chemicals are used to produce plastics — and some are silently killing us. Particularly worrisome is di-2-ethylhexylphthalate, or DEHP, a chemical used to...

Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Threaten Aquifers in the U.S.

Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have for the first time compiled a map of groundwater variables to understand which aquifers in...

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