Cow manure fuels French tractors

BeaumontoisenPérigord, France, Feb 28 (AFP/APP):A French farmer steps away from his barn and fills up a tractor with fuel made from the manure of his cows, an attempt to put their climate-damaging methane to good use. Anchored by a stone farmhouse, much has changed on […]

Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo

Paris, Feb 26 (AFP/APP):For species classified as “extinct in the wild”, the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown. Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the […]

Conspiracy theories on ’15-minute cities’ flourish

Paris, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): Urban planners are fending off abuse fuelled by conspiracy theories about their “15-minute city” regeneration projects which suspicious social media users claim are the road to “climate lockdowns”. The 15-minute city premise is simple — all amenities such as parks and […]

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