1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (834+ words) From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge In the deserts of the United Arab Emirates a sprawling clean energy project, stretching across an area roughly the size of 12,600 football fields, will play host…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (742+ words) Lack of Pfas regulations raised in parliament after Guardian revealed former Miteni plant bought by Indian company Protests over the production of cancer-linked Pfas chemicals have spread across India, after an investigation revealed that an Italian factory shut down due…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (610+ words) Study of Channel finds levels of toxic Pfas in Solent at 13 times safe limits in some places, with much coming from treated sewage Scientists have found high levels of toxic Pfas, or “forever chemicals”, in soil, water and throughout the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (625+ words) Green groups say European Commission is ‘chief roadblock’ to its own plans, as report finds poor progress four years on Harmful compounds in children’s nappies and toxic “forever chemicals” in everyday products are among 14 hazardous substance groups hit by lengthy…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (587+ words) Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day A Nobel laureate’s environmentally friendly invention that provides clean water if central supplies are knocked out by a hurricane or drought, could…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (634+ words) Ministers’ proposals to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ fail to match tougher stance taken in Europe, say experts Environmental campaigners have criticised a “crushingly disappointing” UK government plan to tackle “forever chemicals”, which they warn risks locking in decades of avoidable harm…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (663+ words) Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (253+ words) Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy but later years marred by racist remarks James D Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (724+ words) Miteni factory closed after water pollution scandal but machinery and patents were bought and rebuilt by Indian company The thick green jungle and rust-red hills of Lote, on India’s west coast, give way to a small hill where a factory…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (293+ words) Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery....