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Simple, beautiful, classic: MIT creates blackest black material
Added: 16 Sep 2019
Engineers have claimed a new record for the blackest material ever created.

eDNA project launches first sampling event
Added: 12 Sep 2019
An international environmental DNA project that uses citizen science to monitor waterways has start…

Scalable membrane could filter greenhouse gases
Added: 11 Sep 2019
A new membrane filtration could be used to separate greenhouse gases from waste emissions on an ind…

$5.8M for renewable photocatalytic converter
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Houston-based plasmonics company Syzygy has raised $5.8 million to develop its eco-friendly photoca…

Drought-resistant cereal gene isolated
Added: 2 Sep 2019
Plant scientists have identified a gene responsible for drought resistance in barley that could lea…

Oldest parasitic DNA found in coprolite
Added: 28 Aug 2019
The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been discovered in fossilised puma faeces.

BES plans ‘double blind’ peer review trial
Added: 23 Aug 2019
The British Ecological Society has announced it will be conducting a randomised trial to determine …

Ozone smog will get worse with climate change
Added: 25 Jul 2019
Rising temperatures due to climate change will increase concentrations of ozone in the air to dange…

Algal biofuels face diverse pathogens
Added: 24 Jul 2019
DNA analysis of a predatory bacterium has revealed a much higher level of genetic diversity than pr…

Joshua tree faces extinction
Added: 17 Jul 2019
Climate change could be responsible for the near extinction of Joshua trees by the end of this cent…

Pea gin reduces CO2 emissions
Added: 12 Jul 2019
Alcohol fermented from the starch of peas instead of wheat could offer a greener form of gin produc…

Satellites confirm largest macroalgae bloom
Added: 11 Jul 2019
Satellite observations have confirmed the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, which has mostl…

National Trust ends fossil fuel investments
Added: 4 Jul 2019
The National Trust has revealed that it will cease investment in fossil fuel companies in the inter…

Bitcoin causing city-sized CO2 emissions
Added: 17 Jun 2019
The digital currency bitcoin is responsible for CO2 emissions comparable to that of Las Vegas.

BioCity invests in carbon recycling startup
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2019
Science incubator BioCity has invested an undisclosed amount in Deep Branch Biotechnology, a Nottin…

£24m from NERC
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2019
Around £24 million in funding has been allocated under the fourth round of National Environment Res…

European wheat unprepared for climate change
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2019
Current breeding programmes and cultivar selection practices of European wheat crops are unprepared…

Melting ice sheets pump out methane
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2019
The emission of tons of methane from the Greenland Ice Sheet is evidence of a widespread subglacial…

UN biodiversity targets give false sense of achievement
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2018
UN biodiversity targets are structured to give a false sense of conservation achievement, according…

Science weighs in on mystery surrounding catastrophic volcanic eruption
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Sep 2018
One of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history, which is said to have contributed to the…