All Earth & Environmental

Spin-out’s £10 million aims to replace 10 billion single use plastic items
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plan…

Lab Babble: Turning basic science into TV gold
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Move over Mary Berry, writes Russ Swan.

Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem
Added: 15 Aug 2025
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pe…

In the public arena
Added: 4 Aug 2025
Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audience…

Heat deaths could rise 50 times in 50 years, claims new report
Added: 14 Jul 2025
Rising temperatures and an aging population could result in a fiftyfold increase in heat related de…

Volunteers’ lichen finds give conservation boost to rare rainforest
Added: 6 Jul 2025
Citizen science volunteers have identified two rare lichens never before recorded in the north of E…

Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report
Added: 28 Jun 2025
Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…

Innovation centre invests in algae to tackle minewater contaminants
Added: 1 Jun 2025
Synthetic biology hub SynbiCITE has awarded grant funding to aid a firm’s research into the use of …

Critical alternatives
Added: 27 May 2025
As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki …

Future-proof your workforce with a scientist degree apprenticeship
Added: 22 Apr 2025
Keep your business at the forefront of science, technology, engineering and manufacturing by using …

Game Theory: Photosynthesis
Added: 14 Apr 2025
It’s fun before science with Photosynthesis, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner.
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Chemical expansion
Added: 7 Apr 2025
After increasing to add a dedicated chemical lab zone last year, CHEMUK returns with a further addi…

Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil
Added: 1 Apr 2025
It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then compos…

Green chemistry: The path to sustainable reagents in laboratories
Added: 31 Mar 2025
Green chemistry is revolutionising the way we approach sustainability in science. Rachel Sully expl…

Space scientist Aderin-Pocock to present bicentenary Ri Christmas Lectures
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Space scientist and broadcaster Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock will present this year’s Royal Institutio…

Megalodon's true shape sheds light on aquatic gigantism
Added: 13 Mar 2025
A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica has revealed fresh insights into the anatomy of…

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…

Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

Tell it to the spin doctor
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…