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Top News

  • Plastic-eating enzyme ‘cocktail’ heralds new hope for plastic waste
  • Climate change is making Indian monsoon seasons more chaotic
  • Climate change has caused billions of dollars in flood damages
photo-of-plastic-bottles-2547565 (Magda Ehlers/Pexels) Top News

Plastic-eating enzyme 'cocktail' heralds new hope for plastic waste

WNM | Apr 19, 2021 at 7:55 AM

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.

Climate change is making Indian monsoon seasons more chaotic

WNM
Apr 15, 2021 at 10:46 AM

Climate change has caused billions of dollars in flood damages

WNM
Apr 14, 2021 at 8:17 AM

More trees do not always create a cooler planet, study shows

WNM
Apr 13, 2021 at 7:06 AM

Researchers reveal cost of key climate solution

WNM
Apr 9, 2021 at 3:45 PM
» read more Top News...

Coronavirus

  • Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks
  • Covid infections rise 20% in England as new Omicron variants spread
  • Living with Covid -19 requires caution, not complacency
  • Tui chief Fritz Joussen to quit after guiding travel group through pandemic
  • Russia records 3,154 daily COVID-19 cases, 65 deaths
  • Tokyo reports 2,181 coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 15,815
  • Sanofi-GSK Covid vaccine found effective against Omicron
  • Austria scraps compulsory COVID-19 vaccination scheme
  • COVID vaccines saved 20 mil lives in 1st year, scientists say
  • Covid vaccines prevented 20mn deaths globally, study finds
Coronavirus

Tokyo reports 2,160 coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 16,693

Japan Today | Jun 25, 2022 at 9:46 AM

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday reported 2,160 new coronavirus cases, down 21 from Friday and up 479 from last Saturday.

Coronavirus case count up 40% on a weekly basis

The Slovenia Times
Jun 24, 2022 at 10:42 PM

Pandemics don’t have neat endings

Financial Times
Jun 24, 2022 at 7:15 PM

Provisional deal reached on how to handle future pandemics

Euractiv
Jun 24, 2022 at 6:01 PM

Coronavirus pandemic undermining development achievements, Xi Jinping says

TASS Russian News Agency
Jun 24, 2022 at 5:17 PM
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Climate

  • Germany’s Scholz wants G7 ‘ climate club’ to combat energy crisis 25.06.2022
  • EU, UK win fossil fuel ‘carve-out’ in Energy Charter Treaty deal
  • Agrifood Brief: From Louis XVI to Macron – Where are the peasants?
  • Spain bans protest in Madrid during NATO summit
  • The impact of climate change on respiratory diseases
  • Exceeding air pollution limits is challenging EU health systems
  • Germany tight-lipped on Nord Stream 2 segment nationalization
  • Madrid to host major anti-NATO protest in run-up to bloc’s summit
  • Germany eyes nationalizing section of Nord Stream 2
  • OECD: EU farming subsidies not focused enough on green goals, innovation
Climate

G7 summit in the shadow of Ukraine war 25.06.2022

Deutsche Welle | Jun 25, 2022 at 2:00 AM

Soaring snow-capped mountains, lush green meadows and blue river valleys: the stunning panorama in southern Bavaria is like something out of a fairy tale.

MOEX Russia, RTS indexes falling as trading day ended

TASS Russian News Agency
Jun 24, 2022 at 7:26 PM

Fears for EU climate ambition as countries seek to weaken proposals

Euractiv
Jun 24, 2022 at 6:30 PM

Weekend: Bratislava is all set for summer

The Slovak Spectator
Jun 24, 2022 at 5:02 PM

Xi hosts 14th BRICS Summit, stresses importance of fostering high-quality partnership

Beijing Review
Jun 24, 2022 at 2:00 AM
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Corporate News

Life-saving relief continues to reach quake-hit eastern Afghanistan

UN Sustainable Development
Jun 24, 2022 at 9:51 PM

Plastics, like diamonds, last forever, celebs and experts warn

UN Environment
Jun 23, 2022 at 2:00 AM

Bioeconomy innovation: A potential solution to the escalating food crisis

Food and Agrigulture Organization (UN)
Jun 17, 2022 at 2:00 AM
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Environment

  • What would a ‘Marshall plan’ for Ukraine entail? 25.06.2022
  • IKEA to open store in Maebashi in 2024
  • U.S. Pacific admiral says cooperation with Japan key to regional security
  • Vienna ranked world’s most liveable city; Osaka 10th
  • Gazan children talk about their ideas, lives in TED talks program
  • Vienna returns as world’s ‘most liveable city’ 23.06.2022
  • EU will ‘stand by its promises’ on Western Balkans enlargement 23.06.2022
  • Bhutan fights back against water crisis 23.06.2022
  • How can Germany realistically replace gas? 23.06.2022
  • India’s forgotten stray animals suffer under record heatwaves 23.06.2022
Environment

Women in Jordan: Real progress through social enterprises? 25.06.2022

Deutsche Welle | Jun 25, 2022 at 2:00 AM

If life were a little closer to political strategies on paper, Jordanian women would be enjoying equal pay, the same labor rights as men and equal integration in the labor market.

Full Text: Remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the High-level Dialogue on...

Beijing Review
Jun 25, 2022 at 2:00 AM

Toyota recalls electric cars for faulty wheel that may detach

Japan Today
Jun 24, 2022 at 11:00 PM

<span>Swimming and surfing, Gazans savour a cleaner sea</span>

Al-Monitor
Jun 24, 2022 at 4:08 AM

Metaverse: how to regulate a space yet to be invented?

Euractiv
Jun 22, 2022 at 5:56 PM
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Energy › Renewables

  • How can Germany realistically replace gas? 23.06.2022
  • Ukraine receives US missile systems; Russia advances in Luhansk — as it happened 23.06.2022
  • Austria doubles speed of solar panel rollout
  • Airlines seek govt support for net-zero pledge
  • Sales of high-blend ethanol surge in France amid rising fuel prices
  • Explainer: Why Germany is reviving dirty coal to counter Russian gas cut 20.06.2022
  • German industry supports government gas reduction plan 20.06.2022
  • US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining
  • US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining
  • US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining
Renewables

Russia’s gas squeeze: a moment of truth for Europe

Financial Times | Jun 23, 2022 at 11:18 AM

…per cent. But that partly reflects higher materials costs — and spending on renewable s and energy efficiency is well below what is needed. Industry says renewable s…

Germany enters phase 2 of emergency gas plan as Russia slows supply 23.06.2022

Deutsche Welle
Jun 23, 2022 at 2:00 AM

<span>Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power to develop wind project in Egypt</span>

Al-Monitor
Jun 22, 2022 at 10:05 PM

EU’s 2035 ban on new thermal cars won’t spell the end of biofuels, industry says

Euractiv
Jun 22, 2022 at 1:41 PM

Science Round-Up: Small glaciers having a big impact, claims study

The Copenhagen Post
Jun 20, 2022 at 6:22 PM
» read more Renewables news...

Energy › Oil & Gas

  • “They’re Afraid Prices Will Skyrocket” U.S. Fears EU Tanker Insurance Ban
  • Serbia eyes interconnector to bring Russian oil from Hungary
  • Saudi Aramco May Merge Trading Units Ahead Of IPO
  • Oil Billionaire Harold Hamm Proposes To Take Continental Resources Private
  • Oil Climbs Back To Nearly $123 After China COVID Scare
  • Biofuels’ role in displacing oil
  • Biden Tells Exxon To Start Paying Its Taxes
  • White House Ups Anti-Oil Company Rhetoric
  • Commission, Greece lost in translation over seizure of Russian ship transferring Iranian oil
  • India Seeks Even More Russian Oil
Oil & Gas

Oil turbulence could last five years, ExxonMobil boss warns

Al-Monitor | Jun 21, 2022 at 1:50 PM

Consumers must be prepared to endure up to five years of turbulent oil markets, the head of ExxonMobil said Tuesday, citing under-investment and the coronavirus pandemic.

Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

Euractiv
Jun 20, 2022 at 9:51 AM

Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

Japan Today
Jun 19, 2022 at 9:15 PM

With No Nuclear Deal In Sight, U.S. Slaps Extra Sanctions On Iran

OilPrice.com
Jun 16, 2022 at 5:30 PM

MOSCOW, June 15. /TASS/. Russian Press Review — TASS World Service

TASS Russian News Agency
Jun 15, 2022 at 9:05 AM
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Money › Finance

  • A gust of instability unsettles European politics
  • ‘We’re going backwards’: a divided America reacts to abortion decision
  • Something for the weekend: a few of our favourite things
  • A new chapter for New York’s Morgan Library
  • Wages: data measurement encourages its weaponisation
  • Roll up, roll up for the great blue-chip corporate bond sale!
  • Rising rates raise prospect of property crash
  • Letter: We need to take young consumers back to basics
  • Halting Ukraine war ‘only chance’ to avoid economic crisis, Hungary tells EU
  • New crop of lawmakers vow to shake up France’s political order
Finance

History says US stock market has further to fall

Financial Times | Jun 25, 2022 at 2:35 PM

…fifth below its January peak. Fears have intensified that the US central bank will tip the world’s largest economy into recession, in a bid…

Ukraine’s economy: What’s it lost and what does it still have?

Kyiv Post
Jun 25, 2022 at 9:51 AM

Ecuador: President accuses Indigenous protesters of attempted coup 25.06.2022

Deutsche Welle
Jun 25, 2022 at 2:00 AM

Average maximal interest rate on ruble deposits down to 8.14% in mid-June

TASS Russian News Agency
Jun 24, 2022 at 5:52 PM

Koreans Must Stand Together to Weather Economic Crisis

Chosun Ilbo
Jun 24, 2022 at 3:18 PM
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Money › Stock Market

  • State Duma committee approves draft law on payments under foreign bond loans
  • Russian banks suspending opening of dollar and euro deposits – newspaper
  • MOEX, RTS indices fall in early trading
  • MOEX Index up 1.31%, RTS Index up 0.93% as trading on Moscow Exchange closes
  • Bank of Russia calls transition to settlements in national currencies vital
  • Bank of Russia raises dollar rate on June 24 to 53.36 rubles euro rate up to 55.99 rubles
  • Ruble trading mixed on Moscow Exchange
  • Russian cabinet supports bill authorizing negative rate for currency deposits of companies
  • MOEX, RTS indices rise by 0.62% and 1.69% on Wednesday
  • BRICS basket-based international reserve currency under consideration
Stock Market

MOEX Russia, RTS indexes falling as trading day ended

TASS Russian News Agency | Jun 24, 2022 at 7:26 PM

Russian market indexes ended the trading session on Friday in the red.

German finance regulator orders audit of Adler’s 2021 annual report

Investing.com
Jun 22, 2022 at 6:03 PM

ICU Weekly Insight – Monday, June 6, 2022: National Bank Hikes Key Interest Rate...

Kyiv Post
Jun 7, 2022 at 4:34 PM
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Technology

  • Tofu is a cornucopia of taste. No really
  • Artist Markus Selg: ‘We’re further in the metaverse than most of us think’
  • UK ‘altnets’ risk digging themselves into a hole
  • Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan problems ‘for months’
  • Russia’s digital nomads head for Latin America
  • Michel David-Weill, investment banker, 1932—2022
  • China clean energy: electric cars still need coal
  • Stocks on course for weekly gain as traders weigh rate rise outlook
  • The largest-ever impact fund has $15bn for dirty companies
  • China’s ambassador to Australia heckled as he calls for closer ties
Technology

A String of 200 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2010 Worth $4.27 Million Moved on Friday

Bitcoin.com | Jun 25, 2022 at 7:30 PM

Four bitcoin block rewards mined in 2010 were spent for the first time in over 11 years.

Why Wimbledon’s global pull defies Russian row

Financial Times
Jun 25, 2022 at 10:33 AM

Tech Brief: necessary surveillance, digital commons, AI options

Euractiv
Jun 24, 2022 at 6:38 PM

Get a stylish 3-in-1 leather wireless charger for under $150

New Atlas
Jun 24, 2022 at 8:26 AM

BMW opens new factory in China

Beijing Review
Jun 24, 2022 at 2:00 AM
» read more Technology news...

Corporate News

5G campus network for plastic machine…

Telekom
Jun 24, 2022 at 8:30 AM

Liechtenstein chooses sustainable and future-proof Siemens power distribution

Siemens
Jun 24, 2022 at 2:00 AM

The first Digital Native Factory – in Nanjing The first Digital Native Factory...

Siemens Magazine
Jun 23, 2022 at 12:39 PM

Samsung Electronics Debuts ‘Stranger Things’ Inspired Short Film w…...

Samsung
Jun 22, 2022 at 2:00 PM
» read more Technology corporate news...

Automotive

  • EU, India relaunch talks for free trade agreement
  • Putin cautions against emission class lowering for domestic trucks
  • Putin to meet with businessmen to discuss automotive sector development
  • SPIEF’s business program to reflect Russia’s readiness to develop new ties
  • The ICE ban cometh
  • China misses vehicle production rates by 400,000 in May
  • French car industry calls ban on combustion engine cars ‘industrial destruction’
  • Russia and Turkmenistan will develop cooperation using potential of EAEU – declaration
  • EU and India to start trade negotiations, with 2024 target
  • Why more European firms are choosing Vietnam over China 08.06.2022
Automotive

Germany’s competition authority takes aim at Google Maps

Euractiv | Jun 21, 2022 at 7:33 PM

The German Federal Cartel Office initiated new anti-trust proceedings against US digital giant Google because its mapping application, Google Maps, cannot be combined with other map services.

GM hikes Hummer EV price by over $6,000 as commodity, shipping costs rise

Investing.com
Jun 17, 2022 at 4:51 PM

Putin instructs cabinet to approve updated strategy to develop car industry by...

TASS Russian News Agency
Jun 16, 2022 at 8:12 PM

NIO launches SUV to compete with BMW, Audi

China Economic Review
Jun 16, 2022 at 11:03 AM

EU car bill highlights Poland’s lack of charging points 10.06.2022

Deutsche Welle
Jun 10, 2022 at 2:00 AM
» read more Automotive news...

Corporate News

Volvo Cars welcomes Polestar listing at Nasdaq in New York tomorrow

Volvo
Jun 23, 2022 at 2:00 AM

“Urban culture at the Mercedes-Benz Museum”: Tremendous response for the...

Daimler
Aug 3, 2021 at 2:00 AM
» read more Automotive corporate news...
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