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The West Highland White Terrier is a small dog with a big character.Selected in Scotland he soon became famous in Europe and the USA

COP16 on biodiversity ended on 2 November in Colombia.Despite the hopes, great results are not forthcoming.Once again.

While images of the latest disaster linked to extreme weather events flow around the world from Valencia, one report has gone almost unnoticed.It's called State of Soils in Europe 2024 and is the result of joint research by the Joint Research Center (JRC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA).The report shows how land degradation continues unabated across Europe.Due to various factors – such as intensive agriculture, monocultures and the use of nutrients that aim exclusively to increase productivity without regenerating the land – the continental soil is increasingly impoverished and impermeable.Yet, the two issues are closely related:if it is true that extreme events such as floods are increasing in frequency due to climate change (3 to 5 times more than half a century ago, according to statistics), the tragic implications in terms of victims and the destruction they cause could be significantly reduced through mitigation strategies.Among these, maintaining the soil's...

The United States is in the midst of the biggest boom in clean energy manufacturing investments in history, spurred by laws like the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. These laws have leveraged billions of dollars in government support to drive private sector investments in clean energy supply chains across the country. For several years, one of us, Jay Turner, and his students at Wellesley College have been tracking clean energy investments in the U.S. and sharing the data at The Big Green Machine website. That research shows that companies have announced 225 projects, totaling US$127 billion in investment, and more than 131,000 new jobs since the Inflation Reduction Act became law in 2022. You may have seen news stories that said these projects are at risk of failure or significant delays. In August 2024, the Financial Times reported that 40% of more than 100 projects it evaluated were delayed. These included battery manufacturi...