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Pandora Introduces Carbon Footprint Labelling for Lab Grown Diamonds

Jewelry designer and retailer Pandora announced today that it has added carbon footprint labelling for each of its lab-grown diamonds as part of the...

U.S. Sues New York Times Over Alleged DEI-Based Discrimination Against White Male Employee

U.S. federal agency The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it has filed a lawsuit in a federal court against the New York...

Rural North Carolina fights back against PFAS contamination

For more than half a century, residents of Sampson County, North Carolina have watched their local landfill grow to nearly 1,300 acres, becoming the...

Guidance aims to help cities in Nepal, Ethiopia and Malawi to cut air pollution and cool overheating streets

Air pollution is estimated to cause around 48,881 adult deaths a year in Nepal1 and more than 25,000 deaths in Ethiopia,2 alongside significant health...

Methane from landfills and coal mines to be included in satellite monitoring programme

Landfills and coal mines will now come under the scrutiny of the UN’s satellite methane emissions monitoring programme for the first time, UNEP announced...

UK startup claims breakthrough in high-temperature solar heat for industry

A UK-based concentrated solar thermal startup, Odqa, has announced two technology milestones it says could help heavy industry reduce reliance on fossil fuels for...

UK electric vehicle registrations pass two million for the first time

The number of electric vehicles registered on UK roads has passed two million for the first time, according to new Department for Transport (DfT)...

‘Keystone Light’: These Wyoming oil tycoons are reviving the controversial pipeline

On the first day of his presidency back in 2021, Joe Biden revoked a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have...

Democrats used to back energy-saving plans. Now they’re wavering.

There’s a strange trend afoot on the East Coast, where residents have seen some of the highest increases in electricity costs in the country....

The uncertain future of the UN’s leading voice on Indigenous rights

Last week, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues released urgent calls to action, including a pause on fast-tracked critical mineral projects and increased...

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