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I confess I felt a twinge of guilt reading today’s lead article. Like so many of us, I’m often seduced by the savings of buying more food than I need. While most of it gets used, a forgotten portion almost always languishes in the back of the fridge, changing colour and consistency for a while before going in the bin. But food waste is not an individual issue. It’s a systemic, global problem. It is especially acute in Europe, where households throw out around 70kg of food per year for a whole host of reasons, including poor planning, “buy-one-get-one-free” marketing and a need for convenience. Ian Williams, an environmental scientist, explores why Europe bins so much food, as well as the ways governments can meaningfully support households and tackle the root causes of food waste. Ever since energy-efficient LED bulbs became popular in the 2010s, lighting energy consumption has felt like a worry of the past. But this is far from the case. Lighting still makes up 10-15% of domestic electricity use, and this figure can be slashed even further through careful changes in technology, building design and behaviour – with health benefits to boot. Outside the home, changes to how and when we illuminate our streets can also reap huge benefits for the animal kingdom. And as summer fast approaches here in Eastern Spain, I was very unhappy to learn that the Mediterranean Sea can produce tropical-style hurricanes. Though less frequent than those in the tropics, these storms can be devastating – and climate change will only make them fiercer. |
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Alex Minshall Editor, Valencia |
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 Ian Williams, University of Southampton Wastage of edible food means lost calories, lost money and a growing climate problem. |
 Emmanouil Flaounas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; Davide Faranda, Université Paris-Saclay Freak tropical-like storms are highly sensitive to climate change and as a result, could be coming soon to the Mediterranean. |
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 Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano, Universidad CEU San Pablo Technology, planning and management can reduce lighting energy use by over 60%. |
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 Samuel Challéat, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Jean Secondi, Université d’Angers; Kevin Barré, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Laurent Godet, Nantes Université; Léa Mariton, Inrae; Thierry Lengagne, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 For biodiversity, it’s not just about switching off street lighting, it’s about knowing when and where to turn the lights off. |
 Andrés Jonathan Guízar Dena, Universidad de Navarra New buildings’ energy performance is often 10-20% worse than expected. |
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 Irini Mavrou, Universidad Nebrija; UCL; Nicola McNab, Universidad Nebrija When someone offends us, mood has a much stronger influence than personality over how we react. |
 Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen; Stefan Baumann, KU Leuven The fragment wasn’t placed besides the body, but stuffed inside it. |
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 Chris Doyle, University of Galway Medieval Irish bees had a legal status because they were classified as domestic livestock. |
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Håkan Brorson, Lund University Lipoedema affects how fat is stored in the body and can cause pain, bruising and reduced mobility. Trudy Meehan, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Sneaking out of a party without saying goodbye might look rude, but for some people, it’s the difference between connection and burnout. Jessica Cabezas Alarcón, Universitat de Barcelona Supporting gifted students can benefit the entire classroom. Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Karolinska Institutet Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS, will now be used to describe the condition that affects around one in eight women. Abderrahman Hassi, Al Akhawayn University; Giovanna Storti, Al Akhawayn University Companies and managers aiming for organizational excellence should “wise up”. Here’s how. |
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