Appetite for the drugs could grow beyond these latest projections, however, particularly if the health insurance industry develops a taste for including them in policies.
One in 3 of the 31,000 people surveyed in 34 countries said their choices would not make any difference to "irreversible" climate change, a threat that 25% of respondents said is "not as severe as people make it out to be" and something that almost 30% were tired of hearing about "all the time."
This trial represents another step towards our ambition of having an emission-free and autonomous ground operation by 2050," said Jan Zekveld, head of innovation at Royal Schiphol Group, the airport’s parent company. Schipol aims to stop night flying as part of its emission-reduction efforts, while the Dutch government has moved to cap the number of flights going into and out of the airport.
Around 62 million tonnes of old or unwanted gadgets were thrown out in 2023, enough to circle the Earth in 40-tonne trucks packed full and parked bumper-to-bumper.
A team of scientists in India and the US carried out tests on rats and found that animals given food cooked in reheated sesame or sunflower oil "showed increased oxidative stress and inflammation in the liver" as well as "significant damage in the colon." They said the findings suggest long-term consumption of reused oils could be a cause of "increased neurodegeneration."