110 million landmines are estimated to be buried worldwide, but new techniques are being developed to help remove these indiscrimate killers.
A return to weak export orders for UK manufacturers has combined with continued low domestic demand to make manufacturers’ outlook gloomy for a second month running.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is urging governments around the world to plan for sea level rises of up to three metres.
A civil engineering contractor from Bolton has been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £9,684 to the Environment Agency for polluting Barkin Beck with silt.
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract of £241 million to widen the M1 from Junction 6A to Junction 10 for the UK Highways Agency.
The UK Department for Business and Regulatory Reform is inviting interested parties to give their views on new EC proposals to revise the WEEE and RoHS directives.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced that the Wylfa nuclear power station is to continue generating electricity beyond December 2010 for up to two additional years.
Sasol has become the first company worldwide to receive international approval for a synthetic jet fuel produced by its proprietary Coal to Liquids process.
Aston University and Drayson Racing are to investigate second-generation biofuels in order to create high-performance cars with reduced CO2 emissions.
Experiments in the UK and Italy find that perovskite solar cells will need to take advantage of ultrafast events to stretch the limits of their energy conversion efficiency
