A Swiss firm is on track to solve the conundrum of where to site industrial solar farms, by turning railways into power plants. Switzerland needs to boost solar energy output seven-fold by 2035 to ...

Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said experts Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate ...

No toilets, expensive food of dubious quality, crowded housing. This was the reality for many in 1840s Britain. And it was set to get worse: cholera had already claimed the lives of 50,000 people in ...

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Hattie Hasan, founder of the National Register of Tradeswomen A digger operator in Yorkshire, a tree surgeon in the Midlands and a stonemason in Scotland are among the experts to feature on a national ...

1. EU emissions shrank (and China’s ‘may have peaked’) While the climate crisis came into ever sharper focus in 2024, emissions continued to rise – but not everywhere. Data published in October ...

As well as providing a salve for England and Wales’ £143-million pothole headache, the invention could pave the way for more sustainable road-building. “We want to mimic the healing properties ...

She recently registered as a Community Interest Company and moved the shared wardrobe to its new home at Oswestry library, run by volunteers and backed by a crowdfunding campaign and a grant from ...

1) Think beyond sleep Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, a physician and author, believes there are seven types of rest: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, creative and spiritual. Most people tend to ...

The sight of a concrete building turning green may strike fear into the hearts of architects or building maintenance managers, but for those at Dutch startup Respyre, it’s a sign of things going ...

Mwa Namupopa shared what she had learned with her husband and encouraged him to attend a men’s discussion group. “There we learned that women were human beings just like men with the same rights,” ...