Used electronic devices have been recycled in a nationwide effort to produce the Olympic medals for the Tokyo 2020 Games. The project plans to set a precedent for future Olympic Games, DW reports. As the athletes take the podium and, with a slight bow, have their medals placed around their necks, they will be happy […]
Sometimes innovations require aging, like expensive wines. Let’s get to know what the most prominent inventions had to wait so long, thanks to the excellent review by Chas News. Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone, believed in his creation. He thought that the day would come when such a device would appear in every […]
The annual consumption of office paper requires the felling of 768 million trees, with 45% of paper documents being discarded within 24 hours of their creation. Let’s get to know what Update proposes as an alternative. Save the tree – use less paper! / Blogspot @Ideas from the forest When in the yard of the […]
No matter how interested you are in fashion, it affects our lives in one way or another. The same story is with politics and environmental conservation, states Olena Baran, representative of the UA Plant-Based campaign, in her article for Rubryka. In “The Devil Wears Prada,” the protagonist, editor of a fashion magazine very similar to […]
Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, the UAE’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, met his counterparts in London for high-level talks ahead of November’s COP26 climate change summit in the UK, WAM reports. During the ministerial gathering, which included ministers from 40 countries, and in meetings with UK […]
More than 70 wildfires have broken out this week in provinces on Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and inland areas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that 14 were still burning, Gulf-Times reports. The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast has risen to four, and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day […]
The number one energy source in the United States is still natural gas. But the same companies that own thermal power plants are instead investing in solar power plants and energy storage batteries. This does not mean that fossil fuels will disappear – but they are already losing their dominance, WSJ states. Decades ago, natural […]
Fires, floods, heatwaves, and droughts. The deadly weather that has unfolded in the summer, 2021 has left climate scientists “shocked” and concerned that extreme events are arriving even faster than models predicted, The Finance Info states. In southern Oregon, a fire over an area 25 times the size of Manhattan has raged for weeks, aided […]
While awareness has increased and steps have been taken to tackle climate change in Qatar and the GCC region, more needs to be done now, Neeshad Shafi states. The author is an environmentalist, speaker, and policy-oriented social change advocates, best known for his work on environmental and climate change policy in the Gulf and the […]
According to a Highsnobiety poll, yesterday’s hypebeasts who were queuing up for the new Supreme drop have reconsidered their priorities and believe that the pandemic will “kill” the hype and force people to buy more thoughtfully. This opinion is shared by some experts and analysts interviewed by The Business of Fashion and former Highsnobiety editor […]
