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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bath puts safer water on the map via new OASIS

Added: 12 Nov 2023

A portable water quality monitor developed by University of Bath students aims to enable rapid dete…

ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration

Added: 29 Oct 2023

Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joi…

Sheffield scientists aid steel city to lead sector’s transition to greener fuel

Added: 24 Sep 2023

Sheffield's place as a steel industry pioneer could receive a renewed boost as it prepares to lead …

Plants and particles win Turlings and Shchutska top Swiss science awards

Added: 17 Sep 2023

Biologist Ted Turlings and physicist Lesya Shchutska are this year’s winners of the the two highest…