May 21 1 min Papilio is a wind-powered street lamp that reduces light pollution Berlin design student Tobias Trübenbacher has developed a lamp post with an integrated wind turbine that produces its own renewable...
May 21 1 min New research shows forests equivalent to the size of France have regrown in the last 20 years Nearly 59 million hectares of forests – an area larger than mainland France– has regrown since 2000, according to new analysis from...
May 21 1 min European Court of Justice court upholds ban on Bayer pesticides linked to harming bees The European Union’s top court on Thursday upheld the EU’s partial ban on three insecticides linked to harming bees, preventing their use...
May 21 1 min 20 firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report shows Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate...
May 21 2 min 10p plastic bag charge introduced in England from Friday 21st May The single-use carrier bag charge has today (21 May) increased from 5p to 10p and been extended to all businesses in England. The charge...
Apr 30 1 min Co-op to remove plastic ‘bags for life’ as they become the new single-use carrier bag The Co-op is to remove plastic “bags for life” from sale in all of its 2,600 stores, warning that the low-cost, reusable bag has become...
Apr 29 1 min Wasps are as important to ecosystems and human health as bees, scientists say Wasps could be just as valuable as bees for their contribution to ecosystems, according to research. The study in Biological Reviews was...
Apr 29 1 min Marine Grains - a new superfood with great nutritional value Growing up in southern Spain, Ángel León paid little attention to the meadows of seagrass that fringed the turquoise waters near his...
Apr 29 2 min World’s Most Powerful Tidal Turbine O2 Launches Orbital Marine Power Ltd (Orbital), Scottish-based developers of the world’s leading floating tidal turbine technology, successfully...
