Major European power companies are investing in Romania to create the region’s largest wind farms, bringing welcome investment and jobs. Source: Bloomberg

Europe’s indigenous eel population has decreased by 70 percent over the past 30 years with botanists blaming change in their natural habitat, as well as a virulent parasite carried in a species of Japanese eel imported for agricultural purposes in the early 1980′s. Source: Reuters

A novel design of solar-powered refrigerator is giving rural communities without electricity access to vaccines and medicines. The fridge stores power within ice packs, which maintain temperatures overnight. Source: Reuters

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Icelandic scientists are working on a new carbon storage project which involves embedding carbon dioxide as solid calcium carbonate in basaltic rocks. The CarbFix project aims to imitate the natural storage process of CO2 already observed in geothermal fields. The project’s implications for the fight against global warming are considerable, since basaltic bedrocks suitable for CO2 injection are widely found on the planet. Source: Clean Skies News