Waste Materials
If you ever doubted the benefits of recycling or buying recycled products, the MIT Department of Facilities recently published interesting facts on their website. Amongst others, you'll be delighted…
Billions of Birds Saved
Pollution regulations designed to protect human health can also have beneficial effects for other species. As it turns out, the improved air quality and reduced ozone pollution that followed the 1970…
An End Date to Oil and Gas
In December 2020, Denmark brought an immediate end to new oil and gas exploration in the Danish North Sea. This decision was made as part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050, 80…
Blue Sky Thinking
Airbus has unveiled three hydrogen-fuelled plane designs that it is planning to bring to commercial operation by 2035. If successful, the 'ZEROe' concepts will be the first zero-emissions aircraft…
Carbon-Negative Beer
Scotland-based beer company BrewDog has hailed itself "the world's first carbon-negative international beer business" – meaning that its activities are removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than they…
End of the Road
Major US car market California is planning to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and trucks from 2035, meaning that anyone in the state wanting to buy a new car will have to opt for electric.…