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...
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...
