Cucumbers in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Lidl and Aldi could be in for major change

Eco-friendly food producers have taken a bite out of throwaway packaging – by making it edible(Image: Getty) Brits are growing ever more conscious of their carbon footprint and how their food waste is being disposed of. The awareness can even...

parabolic structures painted in burgundy stucco outline stockholm flagship for chimi eyewear

CAMPUS designs CHIMI’s new Stockholm flagship CAMPUS completes CHIMI’s new Stockholm flagship eyewear store with an approach grounded in reduction, clarity, and sustainable practice. The design process began by removing accumulated additions to...

Uasin Gishu partners with Swedish experts to boost cancer care

UASIN Gishu county has partnered with a team of Swedish health experts to strengthen cancer care and improve access to treatment for patients in the region. The county hosted representatives from the International Centre for Local Democracy, based...

Birmingham’s Spica snapped up in US deal

PropTechDealsBirmingham firm Spica Technologies has been acquired by American company HubStar. Spica was founded in 2014 and the firm was acquired by Swedish company Nordomatic in 2022. Paul Jones (pictured) was promoted to managing director of...

Who is AltMat, the Indian sustainable company in which H&M Group is investing?

H&M Group has become an investor in the Indian company AltMat (Alternative Materials), which specialises in turning agricultural waste into textile products using a technology that combines technical and chemical processes. With this commitment,...

Swedish Armed Forces Deepens Its Collaboration With Karolinska Institutet

On Wednesday 8 October, The Swedish Armed Forces and Karolinska Institutet signed a declaration of intent to strengthen and broaden their collaboration in research and education in the field of defence-related medicine. The two organisations have...

Swedish Academy of Sciences to award Chemistry Nobel today

The scientific world is abuzz as the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry prepares to step into the spotlight this Wednesday, following major announcements in medicine and physics earlier in the week. The prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of...

Inside Arket’s new Dublin flagship shop: ‘The ordinary is very interesting’

“I am a person who loves silhouettes. Silhouettes are my starting point,” says Arket’s head of design and creative, Ella Soccorsi, on a brief visit from Stockholm to the new Dublin shop, which opened last month on the corner of Nassau Street and...

Stockholm to announce winner of 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

STOCKHOLM, October 8. /TASS/. The Nobel Committee for Chemistry of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is set to announce the laureate of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award traditionally recognizes authors of studies published in...

Swedish flotilla activist Greta Thunberg raises her fist after arriving at Athens

2 Israel has deported more activists it had abducted after intercepting the aid-carrying Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters en route to the besieged Gaza Strip. In a statement released on Monday, Israeli authorities said they had...

6 Things You Didn't Know About Greta Thunberg, From Climate Strikes to Gaza Aid

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, widely known as Greta Thunberg, has long been recognized as a Swedish climate activist. Recently, her involvement in humanitarian efforts for Palestine has also captured global attention....

HO MR 24 066 / NLC-SLP-25-014: Lanark County Council - Swedish Timbers Full Project Works Package

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Quo Vadis UN @80?

Civil Society, Democracy, Editors' Choice, Global, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion The corner-stone of the UN headquarters building was laid on UN Day at a special...

Doctors Can Now Prescribe 'Trip To Sweden' To Improve Health Conditions; Netizens Have Mixed Reactions

Doctors Can Now Prescribe 'Trip To Sweden' To Improve Health Conditions; Netizens Have Mixed Reactions | Instagram @visitsweden In recent developments, Sweden has become the first country that can be prescribed by doctors to visit in order to...

Generative AI Could Derail Climate Progress, MIT Researchers Warn

As generative AI systems scale at breakneck speed, so too does their environmental cost. Researchers at MIT are raising alarms about AI's growing carbon footprint, driven largely by the energy demands of massive data centers, and are urging...

Sweden tourist board offers ‘prescription’ so doctors can sign-off your visit

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Building global expert capacity for water sustainability

GLOBAL Walking the sustainability talk, IHE Delft in the Netherlands – the world’s largest international graduate water education institution – has trained a network of more than 25,000 water experts, mostly from across the Global South. “We are...

Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury's customers paid to take bottles back in new initiative

Supermarkets are expected to be the base for the initiative from October 2027(Image: iStockphoto) Brits could very soon be paid to return empty bottles to their local supermarkets as part of an new initiative to bring down the levels of waste. The...

GCEO Hatem Dowdidar on how e& is redefining the future of tech and connectivity

Images: MMG At 10am on a Monday, Dubai’s sun blazes with relentless intensity, mirroring the city’s pulse. From e&’s Al Kifaf headquarters, the city unfolds: Burj Khalifa piercing the sky, the Dubai Metro slicing through the sprawl, and streets...

My laptop runs just fine. Microsoft won’t let me upgrade to Windows 11

Opinion In six months, Windows 10 will be discontinued, rendering millions of PCs insecure. But Microsoft won't let me upgrade my laptop to Windows 11. Contributor, PCWorld Oct 13, 2025 3:30 am PDT This year my laptop turns six–a relatively young...