- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – January 29, 2020 — Loro Parque has welcomed the birth of two jaguar cubs that were born in December during their 47th anniversary celebrations. The Panthera onca specimens are with their mother, Naya, adapting to their new home where they can already be observed together.
- [PRESSWIRE] Pune, INDIA – 14 January, 2020 — Intellore licenses ‘LoRa enabled Ultrasonic Water Meter’ design to organizations supporting global initiatives for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- [PRESSWIRE] Kuala Lumpur – December 31 2019 — Thomas Hafner, of Mootral, believes that his garlic supplement could cut methane emissions from cows by 38 per cent.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – 17 December, 2019 — Almost on the threshold of Christmas, Loro Parque celebrates this Tuesday, 17 December, its 47th anniversary, in a year in which it has reinforced its love and commitment to nature and animals through the fight against plastic.
- [PRESSWIRE] Mexiko-Stadt (16.12.2019) – Die Regierung von Mexiko-Stadt und Glice, ein Schweizer Eco-Eis Hersteller, haben soeben die grösste Schlittschuhbahn der Welt am Zócalo Platz im Herzen der Stadt eröffnet. Schon lange eine Tradition, wird die diesjährige Bahn zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte weder Wasser noch Strom verbrauchen. Glice wurde von der Stadtverwaltung aufgrund seiner einzigartigen, nachhaltigen Eisfläche ausgewählt, die eine ökologische Alternative zu gekühltem Eis darstellt, in jedem Klima funktioniert und viele wirtschaftliche Vorteile bietet.
- [PRESSWIRE] Mexico City – 16 December, 2019 — The Government of Mexico City just opened the world’s largest skating rink on the city’s main square, known as Zócalo. A tradition in Mexico City for many years, for the first time in history this year’s holiday skating rink will use no water or power. Glice, a Swiss manufacturer of Eco-Ice, was selected by the City Government because of its unique sustainable skating surface that offers an ecological alternative to refrigerated ice, operates in any temperature, and comes with many economic benefits.
- [PRESSWIRE] Spain – 02 December, 2019 — Loro Parque Fundación has presented, this Thursday 28 November, a sculpture made from recycled objects that shows the serious problem that plastic generates in the environment. The inauguration took place in the Auditorium of the University of La Laguna (ULL) and was attended by more than 500 people.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de la Cruz – 13 November, 2019 — Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, based at the Max-Planck Comparative Cognition Research station in the Loro Parque, Tenerife, found that four species of parrots did not show any negative reaction to their partner receiving a better pay-off than themselves from a human experimenter in exchange for tokens. Unlike most tested primate species so far, who so to speak “freak out” if their partner gets a better reward, the parrots reacted neither to their partner receiving something better for the same effort (i.e. to an unequal food distribution), nor to having to work harder for the same reward (thus to unequal effort).
- [PRESSWIRE] Jakarta, Indonesia – 04 November, 2019 — The Indonesian manufacturing industry continues to rely heavily on oil and coal for its energy needs, yet opportunities exist for significant savings and cleaner production if the country embraces natural gas energy sources, a new study by Ipsos Business Consulting has concluded.
- [PRESSWIRE] SPAIN – 21 October, 2019 — The headquarters of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands this Friday, October 18, hosted the presentation of the prestigious Gorilla 2018 Award to Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. The award celebrates its sixteenth anniversary this year and highlights environmental responsibility, taking into account strategies and actions to conserve biodiversity and the sustainable use of resources.
- [PRESSWIRE] London, UK – 1 October, 2019 — The Luxury Report have announced the opening of voting for The Luxury Report Awards 2020, to mirror its sister publication The European. The tri-annual travel magazine featuring locations, products and services from around the world are looking to reward those that have excelled in their sector or location.
- [PRESSWIRE] Squamish, B.C. – September 17, 2019 — Canadian clean energy company, Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE), today announced it is expanding the capacity of the design for its first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant, to enable corporate customers to permanently remove carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the atmosphere.
- [PRESSWIRE] Spain – 19 July, 2019 — It is sad but true: nowadays, our World is facing the strongest environmental crisis ever, and its effects are causing the sixth major extinction of the planet Earth. More than 7,700,000,000 human beings are exhausting the World’s natural resources, extinguishing species, changing the climate, polluting the oceans, and expelling animals from their natural habitats.
- [PRESSWIRE] HOUSTON, Texas, and SQUAMISH, British Columbia (May 21, 2019) – Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental, and Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE), a Canadian clean energy company, today announced they are jointly proceeding with the engineering and design of the world’s largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) and sequestration facility. The companies are evaluating a facility designed to capture 500 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere each year, which would be used in Occidental’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations and subsequently stored underground permanently. The plant would be located in the Permian Basin.
- [PRESSWIRE] United States – 08 April, 2019 — FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Ry Armstrong & Friends in An Earth Day Celebration on Monday April 22 at 7pm.
- [PRESSWIRE] Squamish, B.C – March 21, 2019 — Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE), a Canadian clean energy company, today announced the completion of an equity financing round of USD$68 million, marking the largest private investment made into a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company to date. With multiple investors now on board, this financing highlights the significant commercial interest in DAC, particularly from the global energy and private investment sectors.
- [PRESSWIRE] Tenerife – 25 February, 2019 — The six specimens of Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) born in the Loro Parque Foundation’s facilities and moved last August to Brazil for their reinsertion in nature have already managed to adapt to the harsh conditions of their habitat in the Caatinga and are now flying free in the wild. The parrot is one of the most important projects of the Foundation, which has managed to move its category on the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) from ‘critically endangered’ to ‘endangered’.
- [PRESSWIRE] London, United Kingdom – 31 January, 2019 — “Take, make, waste” is no longer a viable way of operating in the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) industry. Billions of clothing items find their way into landfills every year, plastic bottles are polluting the oceans and electronic waste is harmful.
- [PRESSWRE] Tenerife, Spain – 18 January, 2019 — The population of these endangered birds in the wild has multiplied and reached record numbers thanks to the financial support of the Foundation and the key intervention of the Vatican
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – December 27th, 2018 — Loro Parque, in its continuous commitment to scientific research, has recently begun to collaborate in research on the echolocation of orcas, a key sense that favours their orientation and the location of prey for hunting. There is not much information on whether it is a behaviour that cetaceans learn or if it is innate, nor is there data on the moment in which it appears in their development, so that the zoo, recognised as the best in the world, will contribute to providing information on a feature that is vital to their survival.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – December 5th, 2018 — The Loro Parque Foundation recently held the annual meeting of its Advisory Committee, which has decided how to distribute the $1,000,000 that the Foundation dedicates each year to nature conservation projects carried out in the five continents. The meeting took place in Puerto de La Cruz, the city where both the non-profit organisation and its main sponsor, Loro Parque, are based.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – November 7, 2018 — As part of their commitment to the protection of wild species and their natural habitats, Loro Parque and Poema del Mar have decided to join forces with the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme, as well as other international partners, to launch a coalition of aquariums to fight plastic pollution. Aquariums around the world will organise permanent activities at their facilities and change their policies to eliminate all single-use plastic items.
- [PRESSWIRE] La Paz, Bolivia – 10 October, 2018 — What may well be the world’s ugliest family of frogs is facing extinction before some of them even have a name for their species – due to a deadly fungus, climate change and pollution.
- [PRESSWIRE] Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – 10 July, 2018 — The gran aquarium Poema del Mar, recently opened in the heart of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, offers its visitors a unique opportunity – a trip to the very depths of the ocean with its Deep Sea exhibition, featuring the world’s largest curved window, 36 metres wide, 7.35 metres high and 39 centimetres thick.
- [PRESSWIRE] June 7, 2018 – Squamish, B.C. – Announced today, Carbon Engineering (CE), a Canadian-based clean energy company, has published new research that proves CO2 can now be captured from the atmosphere for less than $100USD per ton. Released in a peer-reviewed paper, CE’s breakthroughs in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology demonstrate, for the first time, a scalable and cost-effective solution for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
- [PRESSWIRE] MADISON, Wis., May 30, 2018 — Alliant Energy’s Wisconsinenergy company has filed plans with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to build a wind project that will lower energy costs for Wisconsin customers starting in 2020. The proposed project will be located in North Central Iowa, which has consistently strong wind resources.
- [PRESSWIRE] WASHINGTON, May 15, 2018 — The Open Source Wood initiative was launched in June 2017 by Metsä Wood in order to accelerate growth in urban wood construction. The new opensourcewood.com offers a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration. The service is free and welcomes all organisations and individuals.
- [PRESSWIRE] WASHINGTON, May 15, 2018 — Die Open Source Wood-Initiative wurde im Juni 2017 von Metsä Wood ins Leben gerufen, um das Wachstum im städtischen Holzbau zu beschleunigen. Die neue Seite opensourcewood.com bietet eine Plattform für Zusammenarbeit und Wissenstransfer. Der Service ist kostenlos und richtet sich an alle Unternehmen und Personen.
- [PRESSWIRE] KITCHENER, Ontario, April 17, 2018 — Avidbots Corp. today announced that United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) will be deploying the Avidbots Neo floor cleaning robot to improve the productivity of their cleaning teams, reduce costs, and promote robotics and innovation throughout the UAE.
- [PRESSWIRE] BARCELONA, Spain, April 9, 2018 — The strengthening of the relations between island territories in order to tackle challenges such as climate change, economic competition, technological innovation and tourism will be the main objectives of the second edition of the Smart Island World Congress (SIWC), the world-leading meeting on smart islands.