by Oliver Tufft | Apr 24, 2023 | Climate Solutions, Science & Technology
A new study published last month shows that protecting and restoring wild animals can enhance natural carbon capture and storage. Rewilding is largely seen as a novel approach to conservation and a symbol of hope. Most proponents support the theory because it helps...
by Katie Brennan | Apr 17, 2023 | Climate Solutions, Science & Technology
How biogas in Vietnam is saving the rural population money, improving health outcomes and benefiting the planet — all at once. Vietnam has a human population around 1.5 times that of the UK, but a pig population some six times greater. As traditional fuel prices have...
by Nathan Brook | Apr 13, 2023 | Ideas, Science & Technology
Nathan Brook discusses the state-led schemes incentivising Zero-Emission Vehicles, taking a closer look at their unseen consequences. There is a growing body of literature that implicates market-based instruments (MBIs), which utilise the monetary valuation of nature...
by Charlotte Hall | Apr 11, 2023 | Science & Technology
A meatball grown from mammoth proteins made an impression on the media — but what does it mean for the environment? A giant meatball made headlines all around the globe last month after an Australian company succeeded in creating lab-grown woolly mammoth meat. The...
by Georgia Webber | Feb 25, 2023 | Climate Solutions, Science & Technology
Researchers at RMIT have found a new approach to remove microplastics from water sources. Could this be the solution to the notoriously hard to capture pollutants? Why are microplastics so widely talked about as one of the most persistent and pervasive forms of...
by Charlotte Hall | Feb 22, 2023 | Science & Technology
Crevices and weak points in the Antarctic glacier are melting more rapidly than other areas of the ice, two papers published in Nature Journal found. The underside of the Thwaites Glacier was mapped out for the first time by a remotely operated vehicle called ‘IceFin’...
