The scientists who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme ‘cocktail’ which can digest plastic up to six times faster.
- Italy is evacuating people living near the Mont Blanc Glacier, amid fast melting
- Thousands pray for rain in Indonesia as forests go up in smoke
- Unilever reveals global tea suppliers to stop modern slavery
- Polish border guards board Greenpeace ship, end coal protest
- Mystery illness kills dozens of dogs in Norway
- Artist transforms football stadium into a forest with 300 trees
- Here’s what earth might look like to aliens
- Brazilian soccer match halted by rainforest fires
- Open fridges in supermarkets waste far too much energy
- Warplanes dump water on Amazon as Brazil military begins fighting fires
222 parents groups from 27 countries have released a joint plea to push for ambitious and urgent climate action to protect children’s health, lives and futures before it is too late.
On June 8-9, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese President, paid a two-day state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), his first to the neighboring country in seven years and his first overseas trip this year.
Electricity produced by distributed energy resources such as solar installations and energy storage systems in Singapore may soon be coordinated to function like a single power station.
- Iranian tanker no longer has Turkey destination
- Druzhba pipeline incident affected Rosneft plans on debt reduction in 2Q
- Novatek’s LNG tanker sets new record for passage via Northern Sea Route
- Russia outpaces Saudi Arabia by average daily oil production in April 2019
- Clearing Druzhba pipeline will take 8 months, Belarusian operator says
- Russia ready to resume gas transit via Ukraine after court disputes are resolved
- Tatneft receiving claims from European partners because of Druzhba pipeline contamination
- Russian oil transit to Poland suspended because of chlorinated organics above standard
- Greece urged EU Council to condemn Turkish actions off Cyprus
- Oil price extends fall, growth woes outweigh Middle East concerns
Cameroon’s electricity sector has entered a new period of turbulence after two major power plants suspended their output from the Southern Interconnected Grid (RIS), exposing the financial vulnerabilities that continue to threaten the country’s power supply.
- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces investigation of Wirecard AG
- Wirecard drops on FT report suggesting dubious accounting practice
- Sabine Lautenschläger resigns from ECB Board
- Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO
- Polish ambassador urges Poles to ‘seriously consider’ leaving UK
- Austria stops EU free trade agreement Mercosur
- Pound rebounds towards six-week high vs dollar
- DB Cargo to expand business in China
- Unregulated firm Financial.org closes, investors say accounts frozen
- Sterling edges higher as investors eye Brexit talks
Investment bank UBS concludes that to reach net zero, the world may start to impose restrictions on new fossil fuel investment. Not complete restrictions and not overnight, but enough to reduce cumulative fossil capex by about $10 trillion from now to 2050, or about 2/3 of what we would expect to invest at the current run rate.
- U.S. seeks ban on flavored e-cigarettes after several deaths, hundreds with lung illness
- Apple reveals triple-camera iPhone, undercuts Disney streaming TV price
- Bavarian pub forces powerful Google to retreat
- German institute discovers health risk in tattoo needles
- Largest zero emission airplane takes off in California
- Pilots save passengers with precision landing: “They did everything right”
- Russia says radiation levels rose by 4-16 times in city after accident
- Apple offers credit card: Should you apply?
- Salesforce expands footprint into China with Alibaba partnership
- Defence forces on scene after chemical incident at New Zealand’s Blis Technologies site
A new convention in Berlin wants to bring together experts from different fields to create new ideas from different perspectives to discuss how to shape the future of the internet.
- China may have created an electric vehicle bubble that could soon burst
- Nissan to cut 12,500 jobs as it struggles after Ghosn’s arrest
- DTEK connects Kyiv and Lviv with network of five high-speed EV charging stations
- Schaeffler to sell plant in Hamm to management
- Audi Recalls E-Tron in U.S. on Battery Fire Risk
- Fiat Chrysler withdraws merger offer for Renault
- Schaeffler honors its suppliers for their outstanding performance
- Ferrari accelerates its move into hybrid cars
- Fiat Chrysler puts merger offer to Renault board
- Daimler CEO Zetsche retires, Ola Kaellenius takes over, BMW produces funny video
The Volvo Group passes the milestone of one million connected customer assets for increased sustainability, uptime and safety