An international wildlife smuggler was sentenced this week in a New Zealand District Court for purchasing and intending to export jewelled geckos, a protected native species. The South Korean citizen was caught in an undercover sting operation involving the weiterlesen...
SWEDEN: First country in the world to be prescribed by doctors
Just when Swedish flatpack furniture giant IKEA makes its mark in New Zealand with the opening of its first shopping centre in Auckland, the nordic country's tourism organisation proclaims Sweden is now also the first country in the world recommended by weiterlesen...
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: New report shows Green Economy a multi-trillion dollar growth opportunity
A new report, Already a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market: A CEO Guide to Growth in the Green Economy, finds that the green economy has reached $5 trillion a year and is on track to exceed $7 trillion by 2030, says the Geneva (Switzerland) based World Economic weiterlesen...
NEUSEELAND: Einzigartige Reise-Erlebnisse in Rotorua
Die Stadt Rotorua in Neuseeland liegt mitten in einem Vulkan und das tägliche Leben rund um den Kratersee ist geprägt von geothermischer Aktivität. Die natürliche Erdwärme wird seit Jahrhunderten im täglichen Leben und in den Traditionen der Maori, der indigenen Bevölkerung des Landes, genutzt. Touristen und Besucher der Stadt können an den geothermischen Wundern aktiv weiterlesen…
GERMANY: Solar energy protects German vineyards from climate change
As viticulture suffers from the effects of climate change, German researchers are experimenting with technology that fosters growth while also harvesting electricity. “VitiVoltaic” projects aim to make viticulture fit for climate change. The term is a portmanteau of the Latin genus name for the grapevine, vitis vinifera, and the word for solar power generation, photovoltaics. This weiterlesen…
SWITZERLAND: Voters reject climate tax in referendum
More than 78% of voters in Switzerland opposed the introduction of a new inheritance tax on multimillionaires, the proceeds of which would have been directed toward “socially just measures to combat the climate crisis.” Voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected a new inheritance tax for multimillionaires on Sunday, rejecting a proposal that sought funds from the country’s wealthiest weiterlesen…
GLOBAL ISSUES: AI music creates unease as it tops the charts
As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can’t distinguish it from human-made music. Many listeners, and musicians, are unsettled by this. Can you trust your ears to tell man from machine when it comes to music? Most people can’t, it seems. In a recent study by the streaming platform Deezer and market weiterlesen…
AUSTRALIA: Shark kills Swiss tourist, seriously injures another
A woman was killed and a man seriously injured in a shark attack on Thursday at Crowdy Bay on the East Coast of Australia, police said. New South Wales police said emergency services were called to the remote beach, about 280 kilometers (174 miles) north of Sydney, early in the morning after reports that a shark weiterlesen…
