Emissions

Unreliable data is responsible for variances of up to 2000% in forecasting carbon usage, prompting an urgent call for common data standards, reporting structures...

Research published on 9 August appears to find that only one in ten (11%) responding businesses, of more than 1,000surveyed  in the UK, are measuring their carbon footprint.

Over the past two decades, the value of sludge to the wastewater treatment sector has been turned on its head, transforming it from an...

Water-based paints may create less of a stink, but some still contain chemicals flagged as potentially hazardous, according to new research. Water-based paints have emerged...

The Department for Transport has awarded funding through Innovate UK to a consortium to lead the UK’s first ever study on the electrification of long range trucks with dynamic charging, using overhead wires on motorways.

Forest soils appear to have a significant - and previously unappreciated - capacity to absorb methane, according to a German evaluation of the world's...

Adrian Johnson, technical director at MWH, has been awarded an honorary professorship by a Scottish university. At the same time the Institution of Civil...

Paul Marsh of Envirotec offers an update on attempts to curb air pollution in the UK IT'S the single biggest environmental health risk in the...

UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build "the world’s largest carbon capture facility", with the goal of removing more CO2 from the...

The SME Climate Hub has joined forces with Oxford University to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with tools and resources to help them...

China has unveiled its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) during the country’s annual parliamentary meetings in Beijing, setting out economic, industrial and energy priorities that...

A research programme that claims to put people and communities at the centre of the move to Net Zero is one of two national...

While electric vehicle sales continue to rise worldwide, automotive supply chains are lagging behind the required pace of decarbonisation, according to a new report...

"Zero-emission parcel delivery system" developer Magway launched another round of fund-raising in late February.

SCRUBBER technology has helped Tata Steel achieve a 40% reduction in atmospheric emissions from a limestone kiln in Cumbria. The company operates four Maerz kilns...

EUROPEAN leaders have reached agreement on a pact that commits the EU to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40% by 2030, measured against...

A new detection method has been used to uncover increasing amounts of methane coming from wildfires, a source not currently accounted for in state-level...

OCCUPATIONAL health specialists from Wisconsin, USA, are utilising FTIR gas analysis technology to identify and quantify both known and unknown gas species in a...

A new graphic novel which addresses the big questions around bioenergy and climate change was launched in late March by The University of Manchester...

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe - or, if it's too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. That doesn't mean to just shrug and say "let's make the best of it", but rather to embrace - as an accompaniment to ever more concerted emissions reduction - planning for a world that is changing drastically, as Envirotec discovered.