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...
Environmental Standards Scotland reaches agreement with the Scottish Government on action to prevent excess...
Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) has reached agreement with the Scottish Government on a series of actions that will bring clarity over Scotland’s future incineration...
Autonomous drifting robot survives under East Antarctic ice shelf to take first-of-its-kind measurements
A robotic float has been used to measure the temperature and salinity within a hitherto mysterious realm of the ocean, underneath massive floating ice...
US highway trial demonstrates wireless charging of electric HGVs moving at speed
A US research team has successfully wirelessly charged a heavy-duty electric truck while it was travelling at full motorway speeds, in a seemingly important...
Scotland’s newest offshore wind farm wins at Scottish Green Energy Awards
Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Farm, located 15.5km off the coast of Fife, which became fully operational earlier this year, has been handed...
Glass sector launches a unified sustainability framework
Some of the world’s largest glass developers, producers and packaging companies have come together for the launch of Responsible Glass — a global certification...
Project uses heavy-lift drones to seed trees in upland areas in the Scottish Borders
A groundbreaking woodland creation project in the Scottish Borders has seen advanced drone technology deployed to seed over two million native trees across inaccessible...
UK project sets out the world’s first roadmap to a circular space economy
From reusable rockets to space stations that could one day recycle floating debris into new materials, a first-of-its-kind study from the University of Surrey...
Government announces strengthened Environmental Improvement Plan
The UK government published its revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) on Monday 1 December, presented as a five-year roadmap to tackle the nature and...
What the Budget statement means for different sectors
Observers in sectors such as waste, energy and construction responded to Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget, delivered on 26 November. The statement talked much about...
Attacking nature protections with fudged figures is not the solution to slow growth: rivers...
A statement from Mark Lloyd, Chief Executive of The Rivers Trust
Yesterday , several prominent newspapers published articles quoting a government-commissioned report into the spiralling...
£25 million Water Efficiency Lab competition aims to drive innovation and cut water use...
Ofwat announced its inaugural Water Efficiency Lab (‘WEL 1’) on 25 November. The £25 million challenge-led competition is intended to unlock and scale innovations...
Brighton SuDS scheme is a landmark intervention to protect groundwater
A project led by Brighton & Hove City Council, based on research from the University of Brighton, aims to protect 90% of the city’s...
Volcanic rocks could store decades of captured CO2
Rocks formed by ancient volcanoes found across the UK could safely store millions of tonnes of CO2 by turning it into stone, according to...
Wet wipe island waste autopsy reveals extent of the sewer blockage challenge
A waste autopsy has examined 30 kg of the 114 tonnes of rubbish excavated from the banks of the River Thames, an area that...
New FOI data shows air quality budgets cut drastically as campaign group calls for...
The budget for local councils to tackle air pollution in their area has been cut by the Government from £225 million a year to...
