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Bitcoin causing city-sized CO2 emissions

June 17, 2019
The digital currency bitcoin is responsible for CO2 emissions comparable to that of Las Vegas.

BioCity invests in carbon recycling startup

April 25, 2019
Science incubator BioCity has invested an undisclosed amount in Deep Branch Biotechnology, a Nottingham-based carbon recycling startup. The investment will cover construction costs of a mobile production unit, enabling Deep...

The bigger the better

March 4, 2019
A UK-wide prohibition on the use of plastic microbeads in some cosmetic and personal care products came into effect in 2018, but what fundamental lessons can we learn from this...

Down on the farm

February 28, 2019
The complex balance of species which live in and around farmland are vulnerable to climate change – but we really know very little about how farm biodiversity interacts. Here Darren...

A very complex disturbance

January 14, 2019
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actually influence natural selection doesn’t seem controversial. But the truth could well be...

£24m from NERC

January 11, 2019
Around £24 million in funding has been allocated under the fourth round of National Environment Research Council highlight topics. The funding will be split between 14 research projects covering climate...

European wheat unprepared for climate change

January 10, 2019
Current breeding programmes and cultivar selection practices of European wheat crops are unprepared for increasingly variable weather conditions, according to new research.Based on thousands of observations of wheat cultivars in...

Melting ice sheets pump out methane

January 9, 2019
The emission of tons of methane from the Greenland Ice Sheet is evidence of a widespread subglacial microbial system, according to an international research team.Using novel sensors, researchers led by...

UN biodiversity targets give false sense of achievement

December 19, 2018
UN biodiversity targets are structured to give a false sense of conservation achievement, according to a new research paper.The scientific team, led by the California Academy of Sciences, found that...

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