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A warning now to those who think a night at the movies is an opportunity to sit back and relax for a few hours. If an idea in the Baltic nation of Lithuania catches on, movie-goers might be encouraged to do some heavy peddling at the cinema.

Relocated nuns settle into £4.7m building that features solar panels, a woodchip boiler, rainwater harvesting and a green roof.

The Benedictine nuns at Stanbrook Abbey in Worcester, England are preparing to bid goodbye to the Victorian convent that has been their home for many years to move to a new environmentally friendly monastery being built in the North York Moors national park. 

Tires are one of the most difficult items to recycle today. But a solution is needed. Millions of tires are dumped yearly at landfill sites or illegal deposits. According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports, 300 million scrap tires are generated annually in the US. This is approximately one tire per person per year that is discarded...amazing statistics!

Lack of water could be the stumbling block to plans to double the world's food production by 2050, a scientist says.

Keynote speaker at Friday's 19th World Congress of Soil Science in Brisbane ...