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A Swiss firm is on track to solve the conundrum of where to site industrial solar farms, by turning railways into power plants. Switzerland needs to boost solar energy output seven-fold by 2035 to ...

We’re launching with a six-part series called Developing Mental Wealth, which uncovers the fascinating ways that communities are dealing with mental health issues in parts of the world where ...

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1) Think beyond sleep Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, a physician and author, believes there are seven types of rest: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, creative and spiritual. Most people tend to ...

She recently registered as a Community Interest Company and moved the shared wardrobe to its new home at Oswestry library, run by volunteers and backed by a crowdfunding campaign and a grant from ...

As well as providing a salve for England and Wales’ £143-million pothole headache, the invention could pave the way for more sustainable road-building. “We want to mimic the healing properties ...

Deloitte introduced equal parental leave In a win for equality, the accounting giant Deloitte is to introduce equal parental leave for UK employees. From 2025, fathers working at the firm will get 26 ...

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Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said experts Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate ...

Meanwhile, in the US … Despite attempts by the Trump administration to stymie green energy projects, wind and solar are surging across the US. New data shows that renewables accounted for 98% of the ...

“Our impact shouldn’t be measured by that,” says Douglas McMaster, waving a colourful cube of compressed waste plastic excitedly. That is Silo ’s bin, such as they have one – and as a restaurant ...