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759 PBSA beds and 189 BTR units are set to be built

Revamp of historic Birmingham site will provide 759 student beds and 189 apartments

The Dutch government will not reach its target of insulating over 2 million homes by 2030, according to VENIN, the branch organization for insulation companies. The problem is that easily insulated cavity walls are often home to bats, which fall under the Nature Conservation Act, Nieuwsuur reports.

Under business as usual conditions, with Africa as an example, enteric methane emissions would rise 87% by 2030 and 220% by 2050, write Claudia Arndt, Alex Hristov, and Jan Dijkstra.

Africa’s livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change with parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle.

Existing strategies must be diligently applied though

Existing strategies, diligently applied, could mitigate livestock methane emissions enough to help the sector limit its share of global warming to the 1.5 °C target by 2030. That is the main conclusion of a recent meta-analysis published in The Proce

Dutch study see risks from feeding certain types of seaweed to dairy cows Wageningen University recently published a paper about transfer of bromoform present in the seaweed, Asparagopsis taxiformis, when added to the diet of dairy cattle. The results, said the team, suggests that bromoform can then end up in the milk and urine of the cow. “Bromoform inhibits the formation of methane in the cows rumen. However, it is also toxic,”​ said Wouter Muizelaar, resear...