A dim flash of light appeared in Europe on the night of 5th February 1993. This came from a Russian space mirror called Znamya-2, a 20 metre reflective structure much like aluminium foil (Znamya means “banner” in Russian), which unfurled from a spacecraft that had just undocked from the Rus...
According to a report in the Guardian, business experts and green campaigners have said that Britons are likely to be worse off if the next government fails to invest in a green economy. Dr Anupama Sen is head of policy engagement at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the Unive...
A new Parliamentary report spearheaded by Oxford Martin researchers has urged the UK Government to introduce a national heat resilience strategy to prepare the UK for the widespread impacts of a warming world.
Reductions in Nitrogen Dioxide and Particular Matter combined with fine weather during 2020 led to cleaner air conditions compared to previous five year average.
Sawsan El-Zahr from the Computing Infrastructure group has won the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2024 for work on sustainable networks. The prize was awarded for the research paper “Exploring the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing”, by Sawsan E...
Octopus Energy has taken a £200m stake in Deep Green. This could help the UK company expand on its demonstrator in the south west, which uses heat from a data centre to heat a swimming pool.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow suggest that the falling cost of access to space might enable steered, space-based reflectors to boost power output from large solar farms for a around quarter of an hour during critical peak periods when the sun would otherwise be too low in the sky.
The growth in low-carbon technologies is still falling far behind government targets.
The government is currently considering plans to build a nuclear power station with the capacity to power as many as six million homes.