Climate and sustainability trends for 2025: Navigating a transformative year
Following November's COP29, 2025 looks to be another pivotal year for climate and sustainability action, bringing significant regulatory changes, advancing carbon markets, and a...
Trade body calls on Chancellor to support anaerobic digestion to achieve the UK’s energy...
ADBA has written to Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ahead of the highly anticipated Spring Statement on 26 March 2025.
In a letter...
AI bridges the olfactory gap: Exploring the implications of the digitization of odour
A race is on to reverse-engineer the nose, and more broadly, the entire olfactory system, which is incredibly complex, still not fully understood, and...
Water stored in dams has caused a shift in Earth’s magnetic poles
Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth’s poles slightly away from the planet’s axis of...
Observers respond to Labour’s fracking announcement
Energy secretary Ed Milliband has announced plans to bring forward legislation that will raise political and procedural barriers against any resumption of fracking, one...
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...
UK outperforms many of its peers on circularity, but residual waste will be an...
Britain ranks among the better performers on waste management compared with other advanced economies, but — like its peers — will still face substantial...
BNG reforms welcomed but uncertainty and nature concerns remain
On 16 April the UK government published its response to a consultation on improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) across minor, medium...
CCC: Slow electrification leaving UK households exposed to higher energy bills
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its annual assessment of the government’s progress in reducing emissions on 24 June. It warns that households are...
Transport technology firm calls for greater clarity about who is responsible for UK air...
On the UK’s first National Clean Air Day (15 June), transport and mobility technology specialist TRL has issued a call for greater clarity about...
WRAP calls time on confusing date labels and introduces the little blue fridge
The way food in the UK is labelled is set to change to give shoppers simpler, more consistent storage and date label advice, according...
Carbon “handprint” concept could help showcase low emission products
Firms and research groups in Finland have developed a method and guidelines for evaluating and communicating about the "carbon handprint" of a product
Technologies for textiles and aquaculture win MIT Water Prize
A membrane technology for textile manufacturers and a recirculating aquaculture system have been announced as joint winners of the MIT Water prize. Student-led teams...
Nearly all firms will miss net zero goals without at least doubling rate of...
While more than one-third (34%) of the world’s largest companies say they are now committed to Net Zero1, nearly all (93%) will fail to...
Study flags night-time air pollution in China as potential health threat
China is a night-time ‘hot-spot’ for the production of nitrate radicals (PNO3) that could have a major impact on health-threatening ozone and fine particulates...
No butts: Time to eradicate litter item as research clarifies toxic cargo
Cigarette filters are the world’s most common form of litter. New research appears to show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic...
Observers weigh merits of the National Adaptation Programme
Bold steps had been hoped-for with the UK government's third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) released on 17 July, a much-anticipated prospectus intended to set...
£6.6m invested in the UK’s supply of critical materials for magnets
The UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, has announced a £6.6m investment in research projects which aim to help build a stronger supply chain of...
Transatlantic collaboration aims to boost resilience of sea walls
A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University...
Is the Amazon forest approaching a tipping point?
Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse.
Research...
