Kesko updates packaging policy to align with upcoming EU regulations

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 13, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Finnish retail group Kesko has announced a comprehensive update to its packaging policy, aiming to enhance the sustainability and recyclability of materials used in the packaging of its own-brand products by 2029. The initiative is set to align with upcoming EU...

Third transfer of €1.6 billion proceeds from immobilised Russian Central Bank assets made available in support of Ukraine

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Last Friday, the European Union received €1.6 billion in so-called windfall profits generated by the interest on the cash balances originating from immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank, held by central securities depositories. This marks the third transfer...

Human-Caused Climate Change is Expanding California’s Destructive

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The typical start of fire season in California has shifted earlier by an average of more than one day every year in most of the state since the early 1990s, and up to a total change of month and half earlier in some areas, a trend driven by human-caused climate...

NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and...

Preparing for the next flood: Protecting women’s health in Bangladesh

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Climate change has worsened monsoon flooding in Bangladesh, putting women of child-bearing age at risk – but the UN reproductive health agency (UNFPA) is helping them prepare. Sunamganj is a district in the wetland ecosystem in northeast Bangladesh, which is...

Protect Biodiversity ‘Processes’ – Not Just Pandas and Polar Bears

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Conservation should focus on protecting natural “processes” – not just specific species, researchers say. Current policies often focus on flagship animals, with priority given to rare and well-known species like pandas and polar bears. For many years, experts have...