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STOCKHOLM — Swedish Infrastructure Minister Tomas Eneroth tried to pierce the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic with some positive spin about a green reboot of his country’s transport sector. “We are aiming for a climate-smart restart when it is time to travel again!” he tweeted last month as he released a report from…

STOCKHOLM — Swedish Infrastructure Minister Tomas Eneroth tried to pierce the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic with some positive spin about a green reboot of his country’s transport sector. “We are aiming for a climate-smart restart when it is time to travel again!” he tweeted last month as he released a report from…

The airline industry is understandably focused on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on growth, along with the health and livelihoods of its millions of workers. This year now represents the biggest retrenchment in the history of aviation, with airline capacity down roughly 75 percent as of early April. That means an…

Q. Dear Umbra, Can we develop skills in astral travel to get out and about during coronavirus? See our loved ones? Go on vacation? — Does Reality Escapism Address My Yearning? A. Dear DREAMY, I get the sense that you’re looking for an escape, and trust me, I relate. That’s a…

Home / Environment / It’s A Flying Shame: “Greta Effect” Has People Swearing Off Air Travel “Flying shame” (or “Flygskam” in Swedish) describes guilting people out of taking airplane trips given the massive carbon footprint of air travel.May 5, 2020 by EarthTalk Leave a Comment — By Roddy Scheer and…

If on a winter’s night a traveller is about to board a train, a fortifying drink is of the essence. Thus it was that I stood in line at Burger King, on the concourse at Queen Street station, in Glasgow, and asked for a hot tea. The only reason that…

Sweden could soon be within easy reach of London by overnight sleeper train under proposals drawn up by the country's rail planners. Passengers from the UK would be able to catch the Eurostar to Brussels and then change directly onto a sleeper train, waking up in the city of Malmö…

Courtesy: NASA Earth Day 2020: What Coronavirus Teaches Us About Travel And The Environment It’s Earth Day 2020, which is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.  This day stresses the importance of the Earth and doing what we can to keep the environment sustainable.  I’m a big believer in the…

The 'Absolute Zero' report demonstrates how the UK can deliver on its climate change commitments. In doing so, it debunks technological utopianism - but what of economy and class? The UK government is committed by law to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2050. In late 2019, a…

Dutch airline KLM recently launched a new advertising campaign called “Fly Responsibly”. Remarkably, it seems to encourage viewers to fly less. “Do you always have to meet face-to-face?”, the advert asks. “Could you take the train instead?”. The influence of climate campaigner Greta Thunberg likely explains why airlines feel obliged…