This decision makes Italy the 41st country to ban animals in circuses -- something that countries as diverse as Romania, Mexico, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Iran, and Colombia have already done.
There is more artificial light at night across the globe and that light at night is getting brighter. The rate of growth is approximately two percent each year.
A US sugar industry trade group appears to have pulled the plug on a study that was producing evidence linking sucrose to disease nearly 50 years ago.
Construction of what would be first ever waste-to-energy plant in Africa is nearing completion. The plant, which is due to begin operating in January, will incinerate 1,400 tons of waste every day.
The action will prevent 10 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
Researchers report the first demonstration of an elementary link of a hybrid quantum information network.
One can sell the unused, clean energy generated by solar panels to their next-door neighbors - it is how a newfangled “microgrid” established in one New York, US neighborhood already works.
The international team of researchers looked at the sperm impact of short and long term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) among nearly 6500 15 to 49 year old men in Taiwan.
A new research paper in Frontiers of Psychology suggests that we don't consciously choose our thoughts or our feelings – we become aware of them.
According to a recent study, space dust could be what brought life molecules to Earth. This same mechanism could be responsible for the distribution of life throughout the Universe.
It appears that Costa Rica just bested its 2015 achievement, having run for 300 days on a mixture of hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass, and solar energy.
More than 70,000 of the world's most precious seeds have been sent from the UK's Millennium Seed Bank to the Middle East. The seeds will be used for food security research at a seed bank in Lebanon.
According to data released by the Indian government, wind energy generation in the country jumped 35% in Q3 2017 compared to the preceding quarter.
The idea behind it is to create facilities that can behave dynamically throughout their period of use and to use materials that can be used over and over again in the future.
This record low price of electricity on earth, just beats out the 1.79¢/kWh from Saudi Arabia, and is part of a pattern marching toward 1¢/kWh bids that are coming in 2019 (or sooner).
