The British airline Virgin Atlantic operated its first flight this Tuesday, November 28… without oil. The plane, a Boeing 787, operated on 100% so-called sustainable fuels, such as used cooking oil. The company specifies, however, that there were no passengers on board, nor any cargo loading. Will we be able to live without oil one … Read more
Freiburg (dpa/lsw) – More and more specimens of the strictly protected European wildcat are sneaking through the forests in the southwest. “The development has been going upwards for years,” said Andrea Lehning, consultant for wildcat protection and forests at the Federal Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND). According to experts, it is … Read more
Freiburg (dpa) – It is estimated that several hundred of the strictly protected wild cats live in Baden-Württemberg and their number is increasing. “They now populate the entire Rhine plain, and from there this wild animal species is increasingly spreading towards the east,” said a spokeswoman for the Baden-Württemberg Forestry Experimental and Research Institute (FVA). … Read more
Osnabrück – Some people might lose their appetite with this clause. VfL Osnabrück (17th place, 2nd league) wants to encourage its employees, including professional footballers, to behave in an environmentally friendly manner, so they write a so-called common good clause into their contracts. Specifically: If you use more CO2, you get less money! Vfl managing … Read more
Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) – The state government does not want to force a second national park in North Rhine-Westphalia. “We are not pushing a national park into Düsseldorf from above,” said Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) on Tuesday. The coalition agreement between the CDU and the Greens states: “We want to designate a second national park … Read more
If the skyscrapers of New York point upwards, scientists are starting to take an interest in what is happening below, at the level of the foundations of the American megalopolis. Worried about the pressure exerted by these towers on the city’s soil. They even calculated their number: there are a total of 1,068,954 buildings in … Read more
But the proliferation of certain animals such as wood pigeons, wild boars or rabbits causes agricultural damage. “The rabbits, for example, attack everything because they no longer have any food. You can see it clearly in this field, it is completely deserted. The only food they have today is grapes when it has not been … Read more
Dhe group of so-called per- and polyfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS for short, are better known as “forever chemicals”. Once they get into the environment, they stay there for a long time, sometimes forever. The EU considers these chemicals to be dangerous and wants to ban them. A corresponding regulation should be available by the end … Read more
Heating with gas A reduced VAT of seven percent applies to gas until the end of March 2024. (Photo: IMAGO/Wolfgang Maria Weber) Düsseldorf Anyone who heats with oil or gas will have to reckon with greater price increases in the future than in the past. The federal government has drawn up a new plan for … Read more
Circle Lip. The downy birch eke out a life in its fame in the shadow of the silver birch. This should be familiar to most people with its white bark. Downy birch fans can be all the happier that this has been voted Tree of the Year 2023. And even better: the newly minted celebrity … Read more