Political and business leaders meet to agree new action for tackling air pollution
An international clean air summit, hosted on 23 October by the Mayor of London, attended by government ministers and the head of the World...
Data analytics firm wins £500k funding to build the UK’s first digital waste tracking...
Topolytics has been awarded £500,000 to build a prototype for a UK wide comprehensive waste tracking system
Higher air pollution days trigger hundreds of cardiac arrests and hospitalisations for strokes and...
New data shows that hundreds of children and adults are suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrests or being sent to hospital for strokes or severe asthma attacks on days when air pollution levels are higher in nine major cities across England
AI firm raises $20m to continue its fight against food waste
Tech company Winnow has announced the raising of $12 million in a Series B funding round led by Ingka Group and Mustard Seed
Nominees announced for Aquatech Innovation Award 2019
A total of 12 innovative technologies have been selected by an expert jury in the lead up to the Aquatech Amsterdam event
Liverpool company develops virtual reality tool to save Sellafield £20 million
The Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) has developed a mixed reality training tool for Britain’s biggest nuclear waste site, Sellafield
Fighting fatbergs and hidden plastics: Unblocktober movement underway to save UK’s sewers and seas
Unblocktober is underway and more than 4,000 individuals and employees have already embraced the month-long challenge
Getting to Net Zero: what happens when the wind stops blowing? New analysis presents...
New analysis by Aurora Energy Research attempts to address some of the quandaries presented by the effort to deliver a net zero energy system
Campaign aims to reduce and reuse Europe’s 2.5 million tonnes of plastic appearing in...
A project is calling for consumers to demand electronic and electrical products be made with recycled plastic, and for manufacturers to redesign products to both improve recyclability and integrate recycled plastics in new products
Take a stand and address single-use items and throwaway culture rather than just plastics,...
Zero Waste Scotland is warning that the current focus on plastics is distracting from the real issue of ending the disposable throwaway culture
Amazon fires decreased in September but crisis far from over, says conservation group
The number of fires in the Amazon in September decreased compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Solar Trade Association calls on government to cease publishing inaccurate deployment stats
The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published its latest figures on solar PV deployment in the UK on 26 September
Environment directors urge Dutch government to rethink RDF import tax
A Local Government Association is calling on the Netherlands Government to think twice before levying a €32 per tonne tax on the import of Refuse Derived Fuel RDF
Environmental DNA project launches with sampling event on the River Adur
The 1000 Rivers eDNA Project has now launched after an event on the banks of the River Adur in Sussex on 11 September
New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions...
Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions
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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to...
Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought
An independent approach to air?
Scotland's clean air strategy “is generally performing quite well by EU and global comparison”, according to an independent review .
New EA contract helps protect water resources
The Environment Agency has awarded a 4-year contract to Meteor Communications for the provision of telemetry systems, services and data hosting for water quality monitoring systems
Utility-university partnership to fine tune AD
A partnership between University of York researchers and Yorkshire Water (YW) will work to optimise next-generation anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities .
Venting problems and the quest for cleaner air
Venting storage tanks is essential for safety and reliability but is a practice that has long been poorly understood and regulated, according to tanks expert Assentech. The specification and maintenance of critical components here - breather valves - often falls short of what's required, and tank leakage is a widespread problem. But change appears to be afoot, as Envirotec discovered
