Want to invest to reduce carbon emissions? iClima Earth launches world’s first ‘carbon avoidance’ ETF iClima Earth has revealed plans to launch its new ESG ETF later this month The exchange traded fund will invest in companies that directly enable CO2e avoidance solutions It will list on the London Stock Exchange with a total expense … Read more
Tenants in social housing will now have the legal right to smoke and carbon monoxide alarms for the first time following the Grenfell Tower fire. Government ministers are set to announce the plans in order to put a stop to a law which sees tenants living in council housing given less protection than those living … Read more
The manufacturers of a cooker that killed up to 18 people failed to test it with the grill door closed because they ‘did not foresee anyone using it like that’, an inquest heard today. Maureen Cook, 47, and her parents Audrey, 86, and Alfred Cook, 90, died in their static caravan home in Camborne, Cornwall, in 2013. … Read more
Chocolate that’s 99% carbon free… but costs you £24.95 for 180g! New brand being stocked at Fortnum & Mason claims to be the first with no virtually adverse effect on environment Sailboat Chocolate is said to be 99 per cent free of carbon emissions New brand says it is first to have virtually no adverse … Read more
White Dwarfs, the dead remnants of a Sun-like star, are responsible for most of the carbon in the Milky Way – the element essential for life as we know it, a study found. Astronomers from the US and UK including the University of Warwick, studied star clusters throughout the Milky Way to track down the … Read more
White Dwarfs, the dead remnants of a Sun-like star, are responsible for most of the carbon in the Milky Way – the element essential for life as we know it, a study found. Astronomers from the US and UK including the University of Warwick, studied star clusters throughout the Milky Way to track down the … Read more
So much for SAVING the trees! Eco-preachers Harry and Meghan’s carbon footprint could be TWENTY SIX times more than average Briton – meaning they would need to plant forest of 10,745 saplings to offset their CO2 Former MP Norman Baker has studied their carbon footprint over a year, he says Couple flew 53 times in … Read more
Up to 43 MILLION tonnes of carbon from fires is absorbed by rivers every year and flushed out to sea where it can be stored for thousands of years Carbon tumbles into rivers as ash and charcoal or is dissolved into the waterway Rivers carry around 17 per cent of all carbon left on the … Read more
Carbon emissions from the power sector have fallen by nearly 40 per cent across Europe due to coronavirus lockdowns, analysis suggests. Emissions of CO2 from power generation, including the harmful burning of coal, have been 39 per cent lower in the past 30 days than the same period in 2019. The analysis from climate think … Read more
Borisov, a comet from another star system, was surrounded by a cloud of poisonous ice that had to have formed in a region of space colder than anything known to man. Researchers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center found that it must have formed in the outer edges of its original star system – known … Read more