Tagged “environment”

Amazon’s data centre by the M25 was approved over the parish council’s objections, and the reasoning is the interesting part

The development replaces 17 industrial and warehouse units in Iver. The parish council warned about air quality and traffic; officers…

2 Oct 2026

The nuclear waste problem in one isotope: iodine-129 lasts 15.7 million years, and the number that makes it sound alarming is the same number that makes it legal

France discharges about 153 kg of I-129 into the sea each year. The mass is large precisely because the half-life is long — and that is the…

11 Nov 2025

Bangladesh generates 3 million tonnes of e-waste a year and a third of it is phones — a roundtable asks where Smart Bangladesh’s rubbish goes

At a BIJF roundtable, speakers put the figures on the table: 3 million tonnes of electronic waste a year, 1.05 million tonnes of it from…

3 Jun 2023