Taiwan Opens ‘TRE100’ Green Energy Drive to Small Businesses

PERTH, Western Australia, January 8, 2026 (ENS) - A new Curtin University-led study has shed fresh light on the number of households in developing countries that are burning plastic as an everyday energy source, giving rise to serious international health, social equality, and environmental concerns. [...]

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KABUL, Afghanistan, December 27, 2025 (ENS) - Food insecurity threatening lives and livelihoods is on the rise in Afghanistan as winter closes in. More than 17 million Afghans are starving in freezing temperatures as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens, warns the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization. [...]

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LONDON, UK, December 24, 2025 (ENS) - Today only one in five children in the world receives meals at school. Yet, healthy, sustainable school meals could "cut undernourishment, reduce diet-related deaths and lower environmental impacts," finds a new modelling study led by a professor at University College London. [...]

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NORWICH, England, UK, December 12, 2025 (ENS) – As the planet heats up, a population of polar bears living in southeastern Greenland appear to be adjusting to their warmer environment, [...]

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