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
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
27 May 2023
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?
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
First satellite launch from the UK failed due to an ‘anomaly’
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket and a group of nine satellites it was taking to low-Earth orbit may have burned up in the atmosphere as the launch failed
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
