Tiny forests popping up across Sydney as part of effort to restore urban tree canopy
Tiny forests are starting to spring up in small land plots in Sydney’s suburbs as locals look to…
US scientists turn dead EV battery waste into high-performing new battery
With millions of electric vehicle batteries nearing the end of their use, researchers have found a way to…
Britain’s oldest avocet spotted at West Midlands nature reserve
By the 1840s, the species had disappeared as a breeding bird in Britain after widespread drainage of wetlands…
China’s Energy Future Runs on Coal and Solar
China will continue spending heavily on both coal and alternative energy, such as wind and solar, over the…
Turbines turning from wind to sustainable products
The company’s Chief Executive Andrew Billingsley said finding a way to take blade waste beyond the end of…
Within the first few months of life, every bottlenose dolphin invents a unique whistle that becomes its name for the rest of its life — and other dolphins learn that whistle, remember it, and use it to call out to that specific individual, making bottlenose dolphins the first non-human species ever discovered to use personal names
The proposition that another animal species besides humans uses personal names was, for essentially the entire history of…
First new open-ocean subsea research habitat in 40 years launched
In this video, New Scientist CoLab partners with ocean engineering company DEEP to follow the deployment of Vanguard,…
New PV module recycling tech achieves 97.75% silicon recovery for electrode production
A research team in India has developed a novel recycling process to recover silicon and native silica (SiO₂)…
Amazon invests in one of world’s largest carbon removal projects
Amazon is backing a scheme to plant 180 million carbon-absorbing shrubs – one of the world’s largest nature-based…
Altilium secures government funding for breakthrough battery anode recycling project
The REMADE project focuses on Nyobolt’s ultra-fast charging battery technology and utilises Altilium’s advanced battery recycling capability, along…
70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
Seventy years ago, London choked. For five days in December 1952, a toxic smog smothered the city. Visibility…
Canada hopes to become an ‘energy superpower’
Canada announced plans to build a major oil pipeline to boost sales to Asia and massively increase oil…