A scheme to make it easy to obtain drinking water when on the move has been launched in the Isle of Man. Refill Isle of Man encourages shops, cafes, restaurants, tourist attractions and other publicly accessible premises to display an easy to recognise sticker, appear on an app and fill up people’s water bottles with cold […]

Deliver long-term value Finca Cortesin Hotel, Golf & Spa is at the forefront of European golf’s drive to become more eco-sustainable after revealing that it is using up to 30 per cent less water since becoming the first course in Spain to feature a new, environmentally-friendly, variety of Bermuda grass on all its greens. The deluxe […]

A long manufacturing boom has saddled China with millions of tonnes of waste, much of which is buried in sprawling landfill sites or dismantled by hand in polluting backstreet workshops. China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling “bases” by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its […]

Janet Addison is peering into a large, blue recycling bin on the University of Memphis campus. She does not like what she sees. “Okay, right now, everything that’s in here is contaminated,” says Addison, who’s been working as a recycling operator for the university for almost two years. By contaminated she means that along with […]

The battery-electric buses and charging infrastructure will support Hawaii’s ambitious zero-emission and climate action goals BURLINGAME, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today Proterra, a leading innovator in heavy-duty electric transportation, announced that JTB Hawaii, Inc. (JTB Hawaii), a provider of travel services in the Hawaiian Islands, has agreed to purchase three 40′ Proterra Catalyst® E2 electric buses […]

The state advances a holistic child-development approach that’s not confined to academics. In the current environment of standardized testing and academic rigor to ensure children are on track for high-school graduation, college and beyond, we often forget that success in school and in life is more than a narrow focus on academics and testing to […]

Malaysian cryptocurrency regulation comes into effect on Tuesday, Reuters reports on Monday, Jan. 14. The Malaysian finance minister, Lim Guan Eng, reportedly said today that the Capital Markets and Services Order 2019 would become effective on Jan. 15. According to Reuters, the new regulation classifies digital currencies, tokens and crypto-assets as securities, placing them under the Securities Commission’s authority. Starting […]

Technology shares pulled Wall Street lower on Monday, after an unexpected drop in China’s exports in December reignited worries of a slowdown in global economic growth. The China trade data reinforced concerns that U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods were taking a toll on the world’s second-largest economy, prompting companies such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to […]

A court in China has sentenced a Canadian to death for drug smuggling in a ruling which will worsen a diplomatic row between the two countries. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was originally given a 15-year jail term in 2018 but after an appeal the court said the sentence was too lenient. Monday’s ruling comes weeks after […]

HILO, Hawaii – A trash collection device that broke apart while deployed in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii arrived on the Big Island on Sunday. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom was being towed to Hilo after its support crew discovered a structural malfunction had caused an 18-meter section […]