Globally, outdoor air pollution is second only to tobacco as greatest cause of lung and respiratory cancers. Read more via The Guardian.
Category Archives: News
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Ground Engineering student editor and Loughborough University civil engineering student Jaya Basra takes a closer look at carbon management in infrastructure. PAS 2080 was the world’s first specification created for carbon management in buildings and infrastructure. It forms a global standard that has been authored to meet the requirements of the World Trade Organisation. Through intelligent […]
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Three in five of the 12 million UK households with a dishwasher admit to pre-rinsing their dishes before loading the dishwasher. Utilita Energy, the UK’s only supplier created to help households use less energy, analysed results from a 2,000-household behaviour study to find the most common dishwasher bad habits. Read more via EURO News.
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The DIY chain advocates the “no-dig” movement that has been pioneered by British gardener Charles Dowding, who says gardeners can help the soil regenerate naturally by tipping compost across the surface and leaving the worms to do the digging. Read more via Sky News.
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Engineering should be made more visible in schools to tackle labour shortfalls and help find new solutions to environmental challenges, according to professors. Read more via IMECHE.
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Hundreds of wildflowers have been planted in Worcester in a bid to enhance the natural habitat. The project saw 2.6kg (5.73lb) of seeds sowed by hand over an area the size of two-and-a-half tennis courts at the University of Worcester’s St John’s Campus. It is hoped the meadow will help tackle the biodiversity crisis, the […]
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The world has a number of tools at its disposal to achieve action on Water. In 2016, the Strategic Plan was agreed by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in 2022, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. These frameworks will contribute to achievement of the Sustainable Development […]
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Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney. Polypropylene has long been recycling’s head scratching riddle. A common plastic used for a wide variety of products from packaging and toys to furnishing and fashion, it accounts for roughly […]
An international research team led by Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University) and Sara Bals (University of Antwerp) has shown that a promising catalyst for clearing CO2 becomes significantly more active and selective if its pretreatment is modified. The scientists have visualized the mechanism underlying this concept with unparalleled precision. The results of the study are published in Science on […]
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In his keynote presentation, Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science at Imperial College London, outlined the key layers of fire protection. They are, he explained: precaution; detection, compartmentation; suppression; evacuation; and structural resistance. None of them is perfect, he said, but hopefully enough will work together to prevent a disaster. Read more via IFSEC Global.