Durable goods drive two-thirds of global households' final energy footprints
Everyone knows that disposable products are bad for the environment. But are durable goods that much better?
Everyone knows that disposable products are bad for the environment. But are durable goods that much better?
Environment
Jun 14, 2021
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Swedish and Danish journalists describe their role as monitorial to a greater extent than journalists from other Nordic countries. Journalists from Norway and Iceland state they have the least experience of political influence ...
Social Sciences
May 25, 2021
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An empirical study published in the Journal of Political Economy finds that VAT cuts are less likely to be passed on to consumer prices than VAT hikes. Following a temporary VAT cut, prices can even be higher than on onset.
Economics & Business
Sep 2, 2020
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Working adults across Europe with poor work-life balance are more likely to report poor general health, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.
Social Sciences
Jul 16, 2020
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Researchers at the Department of Chemistry, UmeƄ University, have been awarded SEK 4 million from the Swedish Geotechnical Institute to test a new method for decontamination of contaminated sediments in lakes and streams. ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2020
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A recent study, led by the University of Helsinki, used a novel combination of statistical methods and an exceptional data set collected by hunters to assess the role of protected areas for carnivore conservation in Finland.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2020
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Electricity prices in the Nordic countries are likely to be unusually low this summer amid high inflows to hydropower plants, caused by a combination of a very snow-rich winter and late snowmelt.
Environment
Jun 9, 2020
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A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, has used a chemical genomics approach to explore the underlying mechanism of winter depression-like ...
Veterinary medicine
Apr 13, 2020
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An extensive Nordic research project has looked at microplastics in marine bivalves from 100 sites spread throughout much of the Nordic waters. The study showed that microplastics were found in four of the five bivalve species ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2020
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Making wine in the Nordic countries is far from the glamour associated with Europe's famed wine chateaux: here the sun is fickle, the season is short and diehard aficionados work up more sweat than wine but climate change ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2019
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