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Nature Towns and Cities has launched to bring nature and green spaces closer to people living in urban areas across the UK.
Efforts in east Asia to tackle air pollution might have led to a further acceleration in global warming, a study has found.
When two Californian professors thought up the CubeSat at the turn of the third millennium, they had no idea they would set off a revolution in how things are done in space. And all they wanted was to ...
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The North Sea oil boom of the 1980s created colossal revenues for the United Kingdom and its neighbour Norway. Today, as both nations move towards a fossil-free future, we examine how the aftermath of ...
From December 2024, all new housing in Scotland will be built to the highest energy efficiency standards: a Scottish Passivhaus equivalent. Right now, no one knows exactly what that means.
Here’s a cheerful question: how do you think the world will end? Will underground monsters rise against us? Perhaps a giant asteroid will obliterate our planet? Maybe a nuclear winter will make ...
E&T’s pick of recent books for anyone who wants to understand the threat of disinformation.
Evidence uncovered by E&T appears to show that lithium-mining company SQM is playing a direct role in damaging the local environment in Chile’s Atacama salt flats, as its activities reduce water ...
Will Britain's new Head of State boost the green transition? And can he? "It all seems obvious to me," King Charles III recently told German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, referring to the need ...
As sales of electric vehicles start to soar, the thorny issue of what to do with end-of-life lithium-ion batteries isn’t going away. We look at the problem and explore the solutions.
Electrification is seen as the way towards a decarbonised future, so plans are afoot to bring the UK network up to the task.