The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will have greater access to a suite of powerful space science tools to help countries meet the Sustainable Development Goals after signing a cooperation agreement with the German Aerospace Center (DLR).The new partnership will enable UNDP and its partners to leverage high-resolution satellite imagery and sophisticated computer modelling to address local...Read More

A collaboration between the UK and Brazil has shown that waste sugar cane and wheat straw from agricultural processes can be made directly into valuable chemicals with an increase in value of 5000-fold. Unlike fossil fuels, biofuels are renewable. however, the economics of producing biofuels is currently very challenging compared to fossil fuels. The new...Read More

Swiss environmental activists collected enough signatures to force a referendum on setting specific goals for combating climate change in the country’s constitution, authorities said Thursday. The federal governments said that campaigners submitted more than then necessary 100,000 signatures for the so-called glacier initiative. Switzerland’s famous Alpine glaciers are severely threatened by global warming. The campaigners want a...Read More