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An important milestone for the proposed undersea tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn will soon be reached. Also known as the FinEst (an acronym of Finland and Estonia) Link and ‘Talsinki Tunnel’, the around 100 kilometers long railway tunnel … Continued
A World-First Denmark’s Faroe Islands officially opened the Eysturoy Tunnel. Apart from being a long subsea tunnel under the North Atlantic, the Eysturoy tunnel is also the World’s first subsea tunnel with a roundabout . The 11.2 kilometer-long tunnel is … Continued
Finally Hyperloop arrives in continental Europe. As a vision at least. The Netherlands-based technology company Hard Hyperloop proposes a hyperloop link between Amsterdam and Frankfurt which would shorten the 450 kilometer journey to a whopping 50 minutes, from its current … Continued
The people who were in utero during the ‘Hongerwinter‘ are likely to suffer consequences during all their lives, says a research paper in Science Advances magazine -published by American Association for the Advancement of Science. ‘Hongerwinter‘ is a Dutch word … Continued
Prominent Dutch newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’ reveals in an article (in Dutch) that the Dutch Intelligence Service AIVD has managed to penetrate into the infamous Russian hacker group ‘Cosy Bear’ as early as the summer of 2014 watching their every … Continued
Myanmar’s Rohingya population is suffering a genocide. Even the high commissioner for human rights of an ever-diplomatic organization like The United Nations (not exactly the bastion of human rights with its “lowest common denominator” standards, even without a veto … Continued
In a stark warning to EU officials, a new report by European Environment Agency (EEA) says, air pollution has significant impacts on the health of Europeans, especially in urban areas. According to EEA, air quality slowly improves but air … Continued
European Commission’s Circular Economy Package (CEP) sets the municipal waste recycling targets at 60% by 2025 and 65% by 2030. For packaging waste, a 75% recycling target was set by 2030. These targets launched in December 2015 by Vice President … Continued
NASA, USA’s space agency, regularly releases the pictures taken by the crew members of the International Space Station to the public domain. Astronauts reportedly took these pictures after completing their main duties. This particular photo above was taken on 14 … Continued
While the news about green and renewable energy take up the front pages on World’s media, some other way of energy generation brewing much more intensely in the background: The Nuclear Energy. And unlike 1970’s and 1980’s, it does … Continued