
In New Zealand it takes less than a day to start a business
Dreaming of running your own business but wondering where in the world to start? Well, here’s a quick suggestion – New Zealand.
Dreaming of running your own business but wondering where in the world to start? Well, here’s a quick suggestion – New Zealand.
Governments around the world are looking to boost renewable energy capacity as they race to cut their reliance on fossil fuels. But one of the big questions they face is how to keep the l...
This article was updated on 3 April 2020, to reflect recent developments and include a reference to the United States decision in January this year to lift its ban on landmines.
Silicon Valley may be the tech capital of the world but physical goods still account for around two-thirds of US exports, new figures show.
Fancy a beer? If you’re picking up a six-pack, stop and look at the packaging.
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The usually traffic-clogged streets of the world's cities were closed on the 22nd of September as part of World Car Free Day.
ノルウェーからイギリスに電力を供給する全長720kmにおよぶ送電線が2年前に完成した際は、世界最長の送電線として話題を集めました。そして今度は、シンガポールの再生可能エネルギー企業がその5倍の長さの海底送電線の敷設に乗り出しています。
The youth activist Greta Thunberg has made a splash by sailing across the Atlantic on a yacht to a UN climate summit in order to avoid the carbon emissions of a flight. While few of us wo...
Los Angeles has endured record high temperatures of over 35°C this summer. Scientists say that if nothing is done, LA will be as hot as La Paz on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Califor...
He’s Hollywood’s lonely lion. P22 – as he’s known to wildlife rangers – is a young male mountain lion who has made his home on a Los Angeles hillside under the iconic Hollywood sign.
From the structure of a soap bubble to a close-up of a gas nebula thousands of light years from Earth, prepare to see science through a whole new lens.
High above the streets of New York, more than 36 tonnes of organic vegetables are grown every year. And the farms that produce them aren’t just feeding residents – they’re helping to stop...
Germany’s forests are in a bad way. Two summers of extreme heat and a plague of pests and timber diseases have reduced their area by the equivalent of 200,000 football fields. Now the gov...
Here’s a fishy riddle. Question: when is a sea bass not a sea bass? Answer: when it’s a giant perch. That’s the conclusion of a recent study on fish sold to consumers in the United States...












