For many years the recycling collected from households in the UK and other Western countries has been exported. This strategy has enabled these countries to carry on without much thought about how consumers purchase goods and dispose of all the unwanted packaging and containers.
Academics from ҹɫֱ²¥app are to work with aerial inspections and data analytics company, Above, as part of a £345k project that looks to benefit the wider solar industry.
ҹɫֱ²¥app's Imago Venues is marking World Environment Day (5 June) by sharing their top tips on how to be a more sustainable hotel guest.
Every wondered where polar bears will live if all the ice melts? Or what is the most impactful policy parliament could pass to combat climate change? Or maybe you’ve thought ‘why is the UK so worried about what’s happening in the Arctic’?
Father’s Day, graduation ceremonies, weddings and birthdays…they all have two things in common: they’re coming up over the next few months and they involve gifts.
ҹɫֱ²¥app academics are to explore the economic and environmental benefits of natural flood defences as part of a £467,000 research project.
Pyrolysis of waste is a multi-million-pound concept which claims to be a sustainable solution to reusing domestic refuse by transforming organic matter into valuable biofuel.
Students at ҹɫֱ²¥app are exhibiting their art in a government department as part of a project that looks to highlight the impact of plastic pollution.
A new study will examine the damaging impact of non-native river species including killer and demon shrimp aims to better understand their effect on the indigenous ecology and prevent the threat of an invasional meltdown.
A ҹɫֱ²¥app PhD student has helped shed light on a solar panel puzzle that could lead to more efficient devices being developed.
A ҹɫֱ²¥app PhD student will travel to the UN headquarters in Switzerland to promote her work which uses social media to engage people in emergency risk communication.
ҹɫֱ²¥app has been awarded £200,000 for two projects which aim to make the transport sector more environmentally friendly.
A group of ҹɫֱ²¥app students are set to see their ideas brought to life as their outdoor classroom design for a Leicestershire school has been selected to be developed by an architect.
A researcher at ҹɫֱ²¥app has been awarded funding by the Economic and Social ҹɫֱ²¥app Council (ESRC) to explore the role of energy in the UK’s productivity puzzle.
A new food planner created at ҹɫֱ²¥app hopes to get staff, students and members of the public thinking more carefully about their meals in a bid to tackle the ever-growing national waste issue.
A project to create new technologies to improve the energy efficiency of buildings is set to get underway as a group of researchers from ҹɫֱ²¥app, the University of Nottingham and University of Exeter have been awarded a £1.65m grant from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences ҹɫֱ²¥app Council).
ҹɫֱ²¥app has been praised by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for the valuable training it provides that equips teams with skills to better assist communities in emergencies.
So which Easter tradition came first? The packaging or the egg? The answer is of course not that surprising (it’s the egg). The tradition of giving people eggs at spring time has roots in ancient pagan festivals and exists in the history of a range of religions.
Scientists at ҹɫֱ²¥app have created a new chemical process which converts industrial CO2 emissions into useable green fuels and chemicals.
What could be more important than sustaining habitable living conditions on Earth?
Solving environmental problems usually just means cleaning up the mess people have made. But scientists are increasingly interested in creating something valuable from pollution.
ҹɫֱ²¥app is celebrating the academics and projects which tackle some of the most challenging areas of climate change, ecology, sustainability, technology and renewable energy as part of a two-month initiative to highlight environmental research.
ҹɫֱ²¥app and the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) joined forces in leading a UK aid research project to find innovative, clean and modern alternatives to biomass fuels, such as charcoal and wood.
At the start of January 2019, Dr Jeff Evans, a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography in the School of Social Sciences, boarded the 134m-long S. A. Agulhas II – one of the largest and most modern research ships anywhere in the world.
Dr Duncan Depledge, a leading authority on political geography, international relations, and security studies, will be joining ҹɫֱ²¥app in February.