Waste heat from data centres could heat over 3.5 million UK homes
Projected growth in data centres will produce enough waste heat to warm millions of homes in the UK by 2035 – if the infrastructure...
Record wasted wind could have powered every home in London in 2025
Over 12 Terawatt hours (TWh) of clean electricity was turned off across Great Britain and Ireland in 2025 due to grid constraints, reveals a...
Ferries trade group warns of urgent need to deliver green shipping corridors
Interferry, a global trade association for the ferry industry, has warned that ferry operators are facing rising costs under the EU Emissions Trading System...
Biofilms might be key to supporting the health of space missions
New research appears to signal a reframing (or the need for one) in relation to how biofilms are viewed in space biology, and the...
Clean Air Coalition warns the Scottish Government must get tougher on wood burning
To mark Clean Air Night (22 January), Healthy Air Scotland, a coalition of public health, transport and environmental charities is calling on the Scottish...
Nature groups reveal flaws underpinning government’s nuclear review, and warn of potential for catastrophe
The government's review of nuclear delivery, published in November, is based on misleading advice, says new research published by The Wildlife Trusts, a federation...
End trade-off between recycling targets and toxic exposure, Zero Waste Europe urges EU
A new policy briefing by waste advocacy group Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) argues for tougher chemical policy measures to be included in the European...
Rare earth magnet recycling centre launched in West Midlands
A facility for separating and recycling rare earth magnets has been launched at the University of Birmingham, which was opened on 15 January by...
Interactive map shows how well English highway authorities are performing on road maintenance
A new ratings system lets the public see how well each of the 154 local highway authorities in England is fixing potholes and maintaining...
Dual-layer system intercepts most micro- and nanoplastics from landfill leachate, say researchers
Researchers have created a new two-layer membrane filtration system that can significantly reduce the amount of micro and nanoplastics that leak from landfills into...
Laser cladding demonstrated for rail track repairs by Sheffield group
Field demonstrations of laser cladding technology hosted by the University of Sheffield Rail Group have shown how additive manufacturing can repair railway infrastructure and...
Trump signals further US disengagement from global climate cooperation
The US Trump administration announced on 7 January that it would withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the multilateral...
Western promise: Venezuelan investment hopes meet a battered oil industry
Donald Trump's confidence that the Venezuelan oil industry can be revived by US companies understates a complex situation. The challenge extends beyond the severely...
Cold snap drives UK power demand to near seven-year high as interconnector reversals push...
An Arctic blast of snow, sleet and hail has driven UK temperatures to -12.5°C, the coldest recorded this winter, sharply increasing electricity demand and...
Microplastics are impairing the oceans’ ability to absorb CO2, says new study
The findings appear to reveal an important role for the waste material - defined as plastic fragments smaller than five millimeters in size -...
World’s first dynamic green ammonia plant begins operation in Denmark
What’s described as the world’s first dynamic green ammonia plant is now in operation, in a collaboration between emissions-reduction expert Topsoe and partners Skovgaard...
Campaigners highlight a plastic hole in Scottish circularity plans
Campaigners from Friends of the Earth Scotland have raised the alarm about the omission of plastic from the Scottish government's draft Circular Economy Strategy,...
Royal Academy of Engineering awards £39 million funding to 13 high-impact climate innovations
New technologies to store renewable energy, power data centres and computers more efficiently and multiply the power of batteries four-fold are among the engineering...
US groups demonstrate commerical scale PFAS destruction of high-flow industrial wastewater
US firm Claros Technologies has completed a commercial-scale run of its proprietary UV-photochemical PFAS destruction method, reportedly achieving over 99.99% destruction across long, short,...
BNG reforms not as drastic as feared, but still significantly weaken nature protections
“A nightmare before Xmas for nature” was one take on the changes to rules on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) announced by Housing Secretary Matthew...
