Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly as waste management and recycling fall short, says OECD
The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated or...
We need stricter MOT tests to eliminate air pollution, says campaign group
The Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality (WCRAQ) - a social enterprise - believes it is making progress with its efforts to lobby parliament,...
Portugal power-to-liquid project makes sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) from municipal waste-derived CO2
One of the first synthetic eFuel production units in Europe could be implemented at an Energy Recovery Plant near Porto.
Deploying a seemingly innovative...
Comment: We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown...
Dr Matthew Pound, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, and Dr Martha Gibson, Research Fellow in Paleoclimatology at Northumbria University, explore how the climate crisis...
“Cost-effective alternative to air source heat pumps” secures £1.3m funding
"Zero-carbon refrigeration" developer Barocal has secured a £1.3m investment to accelerate commercialisation of its technology, which also works in heating applications.
The University of...
Scots’ views sought on mandatory digital waste tracking
A consultation setting out plans for a mandatory digital waste tracking service in the UK was launched on 21 January 2022.
The Scottish Environment Protection...
Trash talk: UK’s rubbish crews miss more than 745,000 bin collections each year
Britain’s hard-working refuse collection crews do a fantastic job of collecting our household waste – but logistics issues are leading to more than 745,000...
Microgravity experiments could help future space missions find water
New research on generating oxygen from water found on the surfaces of other planets could help support future long-term missions to the Moon and...
“No-code” solution will revolutionise access to satellite data, says firm
Edinburgh-based tech firm Earth Blox says it has demonstrated its ability to provide near-instantaneous cloud powered access and analysis of satellite imagery in a...
Lithium battery industry presents opportunities for water treatment experts
The lithium battery economy, driven largely by the growing electrical vehicle market, presents opportunities for water and wastewater businesses across the value chain, according...
New funding for biotechnology scale-ups in Scotland
A new fund has been launched by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) to enable biotech companies to access specialist facilities, equipment and resources.
IBioIC’s...
Biospherian will share water stories from ‘Spaceship Earth’
Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere...
The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris...
The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris...
More evidence needed to establish 5G’s green credentials
Widespread expectations that 5G will be a green technology are not currently backed up by a strong, publicly available, fully transparent evidence base, warns...
Micropollutants under the (electron) microscope: Project reveals drainage detritus
A recent project seems to lift the lid on some of the microscopic material washed into drainage systems by commercial and industrial activity. Environmental...
Discharging a duty
Water industry intransigence and regulatory neglect seem to provide the backdrop to a sewage dumping scandal that has made headlines recently and emboldened citizen scientists and environmental campaigners. Will 2022 be the year water companies are finally forced to get their act together, asks Envirotec.
New lawsuits challenge UK government’s “greenwashing and climate delay”
Both ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth are taking the government to court over strategies intended to advance the transition to a low emissions...
“Radical” rhetoric of farming reform promising, but lack of details and urgency still puts...
On 6 January, the Government announced further details on two new schemes for rewarding farmers in England for producing food sustainably, while supporting nature’s...
Researchers to explore better sourcing of rare earth elements
University of Brighton researchers have received a £97,000 grant to study ways to make sourcing vital rare earth elements less environmentally damaging.
Researchers from the...
Abundance of life discovered beneath an Antarctic ice shelf
Far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there is more marine life than expected, finds a study in the journal Current Biology, published...
