Bloomberg Budget frozen food retailer Iceland Foods is reducing the amount of chilled food it sells to try to lower the business’s energy bills. The supermarket chain is stocking more room-temperature products instead of chilled, Chairman Richard Walker said in a phone interview. Iceland is also using more modern fridges, putting doors on warehouse fridges and putting solar panels ...

  Bloomberg The largest known deposit of rare earth minerals in Europe has just been discovered in Sweden’s Arctic, with potential to help the continent break free from China’s dominance on the market for the resources. The deposit, found by Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB, contains more than 1 million tons of rare earths, according to a statement on Thursday. ...

  Bloomberg South Korea will boost nuclear power generation and downgrade its plans for renewable energy as the nation overhauls its electricity mix to meet emissions reduction targets. Nuclear plants are now expected to account for almost one-third of generation capacity by 2030 up from about 24% forecast in earlier draft proposals, according to government documents published on Thursday. Renewable ...