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 huge London super sewer designed to fight river pollution
2 June 2023
A monstrous concrete pipe with a capacity of 1.6 million cubic metres is being built under London to reduce the frequency of sewage discharges into the Thames
How a UK river serves as a natural lab for flood defence research
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A river near Edinburgh, UK, has served for more than a decade as a natural laboratory for studying flood defences, providing benefits such as improved water quality worth millions of pounds
Can a new way to recycle cars create a circular motor industry?
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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
Green home designs put to the test in giant climate-controlled chamber
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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
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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
How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England's waterways
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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
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Finland wants to make everything from ceramics to medical devices and even satellites from wood, helping it to hit carbon neutrality by 2035
On the hunt for platypus DNA in Australia's waterways
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Threatened platypus populations have been historically difficult to monitor, but techniques for collecting DNA samples from the waters the animals inhabit may change that
