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Disappearing glaciers ‘now second largest contributor to sea level rise’
Added: 2 Mar 2025
Glacier loss in central Europe was nearly 40% during this century, suggests a study by Belgium’s Vr…

Bath seeks cleaner, greener water option
Added: 15 Feb 2025
Chemical engineers at the University of Bath have claimed a world first with the creation of a sust…

Hadley Centre climate work ROI is 33 times Government’s expenditure
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Leading UK climate change research site the Hadley Centre Climate Programme (HCCP) provided a retur…

Unilever and Pioneer launch food and drink incubator lab at Colworth
Added: 20 Jan 2025
Unilever and Pioneer Group are to collaborate on a new state-of-the-art food and drink incubator th…

Lab and fieldwork combine to ensure Beauty moth is a little less rare
Added: 6 Jan 2025
An experimental combination of captive breeding and habitat management has seen one of the UK’s rar…

Sea-savvy tech provides longest ever study of destructive water currents
Added: 16 Dec 2024
Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, using seabe…

Stand by for the big freeze
Added: 26 Oct 2024
Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …

Finnish university on the circular economy CACE
Added: 20 Oct 2024
Applications are invited for a recently debuted Master’s programme in circular economy chemistry an…

Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study
Added: 1 Oct 2024
Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital ha…

Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Added: 30 Sep 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…

Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies
Added: 17 Aug 2024
Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…

Sample preparation of environmental samples for trace metal analysis
Added: 13 Aug 2024
A technical note is available from Analytix that highlights using a Milestone Ethos UP microwave di…

Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine
Added: 11 Aug 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…

A matter of scale
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…

PrISMa creators aim to bridge net zero innovation’s valley of death
Added: 22 Jul 2024
It’s the phrase that encapsulates the perennial challenge of transitioning a successful laboratory …

Seaweed-to-packaging spinout scoops £4million-plus private investment
Added: 9 Jun 2024
Bath university spinout Kelpi has secured £4.35 million in funding from a slew of City firms to lau…

Five years beavering bears water for ecologists
Added: 1 Apr 2024
An East Anglian project to reintroduce beavers to the region claims the animals have contributed to…

Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…

Satellite offers a flood warning breakthrough
Added: 14 Jan 2024
Satellite video offers an enhanced means to monitor river flow and provide earlier and more compreh…

DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…