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‘Environmental catastrophe’: Can recycled cement help rebuild Ukraine?

Concrete’s binding ingredient is responsible for around 8% of global CO2 emissions. But researchers have found a way to recycle it all.

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Greece to stop illegal construction on the party island of Mykonos

The crackdown comes after an archeologist was subjected to a "mafia-style attack" at his home in Athens.

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Meet the Greek team studying and preserving traditional stonemasonry

In partnership with Media City

The declining art form of stone masonry is being preserved and revived by a group of people in Greece.

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Campaigners vow to fight ‘mad’ UK airport expansion

The High Court has given Bristol airport permission to increase its annual capacity from 10 million to 12 million passengers.

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Flamingos and pelicans threatened by new Albanian airport

Albania’s new airport could destroy avian habitats and risk aircraft collisions with big birds, protestors warn.

Tech News

Watch just what Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot can do now

Boston Dynamics has released a new video showing its Atlas humanoid robot very much at ease working on a (fake) construction site.

Earth News

Solar panels made mandatory on almost all new homes in Tokyo

Tokyo lags in its uptake of renewable energy. Just four per cent of buildings with the capacity for solar panels currently have them - but a new rule is about to change this.

Ecotech

Inside the ‘extraordinary’ 3D printed home that can be fully recycled

This innovative 3D printed house is fully recyclable. Now, researchers want to scale production up in a ‘factory of the future’.

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Italian researchers build first hydrogen-powered house in Europe

This student house in southern Italy is powered by hydrogen fuel cells - a first as Europe tries to reduce its carbon emissions and reliance on traditional energy sources.

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France uses AI to detect more than 20,000 undeclared swimming pools

Tax authorities have used the technology on a regional basis, but will now roll it out nationwide.

Earth Series

Meet the film director who built his own house out of hemp

After turning 60 and welcoming his first granddaughter, Steve Barron felt the need to give something back to the planet and began researching how to build a house out of hemp.

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French 'tiny houses' project giving the homeless a lifeline and a home

Participants in the project in Brittany take part in all aspects of the construction of the mobile homes and are given the keys afterward.

Moments

Where has the world's longest glass-bottomed bridge just been built?

In a bid to bring tourists back to Vietnam, the nation’s government has constructed the longest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.

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Jakartans seek thrills by dining in the sky

Indonesians eat in a restaurant suspended more than 50 metres above the ground, with the 'Lounge in the Sky' restaurant.

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The planet is facing a ‘global sand crisis’ - should we be worried?

Unchecked sand consumption risks environmental damage and global shortages.

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Sweden’s timber city erects skyscraper made entirely from wood

The Sara Cultural Centre is designed to ‘communicate’ with the buildings around it.

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Would you live in this conker-shaped pod?

These futuristic conker-shaped pods can be assembled together to form a house that expands or shrinks according to your needs.

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Sagrada Familia plans put 3,000 families at risk of eviction

A dispute between local residents and the Sagrada Familia construction team has arisen from their future plan to demolish housing blocks in order to complete Gaudi's vision of the basilica.

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Flying gardeners defy gravity to keep Milan's vertical forest alive

It takes a special kind of gardener to look after a vertical forest

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Euroviews. A factory showed the uglier face of Sino-Serbian partnership | View

Last month, the treatment of Vietnamese workers building Serbia's first Chinese tyre factory caused a scandal. The government must uphold the rule of law no matter how attractive the investment, writes Vuk Vuksanovic of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).