On board RRS Sir David Attenborough as it prepares for Antarctic trip
7 July 2023
Alec Luhn joins the UK’s new state-of-the-art polar research ship for trials in the North Sea ahead of its first scientific expedition to Antarctica
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Inside the gigafactory producing the greenest batteries in the world
27 June 2023
Northvolt says that its massive factory in Sweden will soon produce enough batteries each year to power a million electric cars, with a much smaller carbon footprint than those made in China
Can a new way to recycle cars create a circular motor industry?
14 May 2023
What looks like a production line in a UK scrapyard is actually taking cars apart rather than building them – part of efforts to create a more sustainable car industry
Ecologists are infecting trees with fungi to make them age prematurely
14 March 2023
Many species depend on the cavities inside veteran trees, but such spaces are in short supply. Researchers are exploring ways to make young trees old before their time
Green home designs put to the test in giant climate-controlled chamber
17 February 2023
Roof-mounted heat pumps and heat-harvesting showers are among the green home technologies being put through their paces in a research facility in Manchester, UK
The Helsinki neighbourhood leading the way to zero-carbon cities
8 April 2022
Kalasatama, a former cargo port in Finland’s capital, is acting as a test bed for new ideas that could help the city reach a goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030
Net zero: The UK is building its last big gas power plant
7 March 2022
Keadby 2 will almost certainly be the UK’s last large traditional gas power plant as the country transitions to clean energy - and other planned power plants nearby demonstrate how it will get there
El Salvador's bitcoin gamble draws crypto-tourists but angers locals
1 March 2022
The adoption of cryptocurrency as legal tender by El Salvador's government has attracted enthusiastic tourists, concern from financial institutions and scorn from locals
How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England's waterways
2 February 2022
The Evenlode in Oxfordshire, UK, has been plagued by pollution, but farmers, the water industry and local volunteers are working together to clean it up
How Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood
21 October 2021
Finland wants to make everything from ceramics to medical devices and even satellites from wood, helping it to hit carbon neutrality by 2035
