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 Department of Conservation (DOC), Ministry for Primary weiterlesen...

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 doctors: Visit Sweden says in its latest international marketing weiterlesen...

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 Forum in its latest media release. Businesses across industries weiterlesen...

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 weiterlesen...

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, weiterlesen...

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 weiterlesen...

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 had weiterlesen...

Many European luxury and fast fashion brands have set themselves ambitious sustainability targets. But how many of these have actually been met? We investigate. Twenty years ago, sustainability was barely a footnote in the public communications of most fashion companies. With increased attention on climate change, weiterlesen...

From aluminum cans to couture, Roberto Zinli’s recycled eco-fashion is redefining style and sustainability across Benin's catwalk scene. Roberto Zinli aka Président Djangoun, is a fashion designer and social media star in Benin who turns waste into wearable art. Concerned about environmental degradation, he began weiterlesen...