A 2009 report produced by HSBC identified five cities in the UK that it believed would prove to be vigorous centres for growth industries. The company dubbed these urban areas ‘super-cities’ and...

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council are working on an £8m initiative to protect Britain’s cultural heritage from the effects of climate...

In a new manifesto presented to the UK government, the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) has set out a series of recommendations on how a world-leading environmental industry might be...

Organic waste could be used to make building materials and then fed back into the biological cycle at the end of their service life, claims a new report from Arup.

As a veteran oilman, Lord Browne knows more than most about national assets and how a combination of political will, private enterprise and engineering know-how can exploit them to their maximum...

There is no choosing between AI opportunities or environmentally sustainable AI. To access the former, we need the latter, writes Professor Tom Rodden, Chair of the NEPC working group on responsible...

The European Patent Office (EPO) has signed a deal with Google that will see the EPO use Google’s machine translation technology to translate patents into the languages of the 38 countries that it...

Four international energy companies have formed a consortium that will bid for rights to develop wind farms as part of The Crown Estate's third licence round for UK offshore wind farms.

Scientists have discovered a method to control the gas-phase-selective catalytic combustion of methane, so that the reaction produces ethylene at room temperature and formaldehyde at lower...

Fleet Support Limited has recently completed the first fit of an upgraded NATO radial, chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear filter system to the Royal Navy type 23 frigate HMS Iron Duke