Siberian tiger’s paw prints spotted for the first time in 50 years and more.
Russian residents spotted paw prints belonging to a Siberian tiger in Siberia for the first time in 50 years, indicating that the big cats are recovering.
Portugal forbids employers to contact workers after hours and more.
In Portugal, it is now illegal for employers to contact their employees outside of their regular hours. This rule echoes a similar one that France passed in 2017, giving workers the right to ignore after-hours business emails.
Spanish drivers can exchange old car for a free transit pass and more.
In Barcelona, drivers can exchange their old car for a 3-year free transit pass. Since public transit infrastructure already exists, promoting such incentives is significantly cheaper for the city than advertising electric vehicles.
Coldplay will harness their fans’ energy and more.
For their next World Tour, music band Coldplay will harness their fans’ energy to make their concerts more sustainable. Indeed, the band will capture the energy of dancing fans through kinetic flooring.
Paris slashed its buildings energy bill and more.
Paris pledged to reduce its public housings’ energy consumption by 60% by 2030. After a decade of efforts, including changing the insulation and renovating the heating systems and electrical wiring, some of the largest buildings already witnessed a 47% drop in their energy bill.
Nobel prize in physics for two climate modellers and more.
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann jointly won the 2021 Nobel prize in physics. These two climate modellers laid the foundations of our current understanding of carbon dioxide’s impact on the climate since the 1960s and 1980s respectively.
UNESCO declared the Amazon of Europe a Biosphere Reserve and more.
UNESCO recently declared the Amazon of Europe a Biosphere Reserve. This one-million-hectare area spans 5 Eastern European countries (Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia) and is one of Europe’s richest landscapes in terms of species and habitats.