2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (685+ words) An "eco-friendly" range of paper tubes and pouches touted by Yonwoo, a South Korean maker of packaging for cosmetics, has reaped unexpected benefit from the Iran war, which has disrupted "supplies of the plastic needed to turn out single-use wrapping....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1277+ words) With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. "We are now at about minus 430 meters," muttered geologist Tuomas Pere as he steered a car through a labyrinth of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (902+ words) In recent years, Pacific island nations have'earned'global credibility'as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some Pacific nations pursue a controversial new industry " deep-sea…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1168+ words) Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers " and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. That means the utility could miss Nevada's clean energy…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (479+ words) Poland is one of Europe's most polluted countries, and a flagship national program to clean the air and curb household heating demand is losing momentum " threatening both public health and the country's energy security as global conflicts, including the Iran…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (17+ words) U. S. states are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Data centers are to blame'Japan Today...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (752+ words) More than 200 laws have been developed to'regulate AI'in more than 100 countries.'Many of them focus on issues'such as privacy, bias, disinformation, security and cybersecurity rather than the environmental consequences of AI. AI'is an energy-intensive and thirsty industry. It leads to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1818+ words) Tourists wanting a similar shot soon packed this peaceful town at the foot of the mountain. The complaints were not far behind: chronic traffic jams; piles of litter; ill-mannered foreigners knocking on doors of private homes to borrow toilets; tourists…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (630+ words) March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (288+ words) Both the business and academic year start in spring in Japan, so right now is what's known as the'shin seikatsu, or "new lifestyle," season, as new workers and college students move into new commuting-distance homes to start the next chapter…...