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A bundle of tech can replace gas boilers and help millions of homes go off-grid, says study | Envirotec

Inefficient UK homes, which were built decades ago, can do away with...

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Research Bits: October 24

Photonic-electronic hardware processes 3D data Researchers from the University of Oxford, University of Muenster, University of Heidelberg, and University of Exeter are developing integrated photonic-electronic...

Farmers and local knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s life support systems, says UK-China study | Envirotec

Future plans to tackle the climate change’s impacts on food security must integrate local knowledge to help preserve the Earth’s critical zone, experts...

How Quantum Physics Describes Earth’s Weather Patterns | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionWhile much of our planet’s air and seas are stirred at a tempest’s whim, some features are far more regular. At the equator, thousand-kilometer-long...

His Royal High-ness: Is Prince Charles the new cannabis king?

This coronation promises to be great fun for all, as long as the peasants remember the rules. You can block the streets to celebrate...

The good news about climate tipping points

A recent landmark report on the climate crisis pointed out some near-term tipping points that could mean the difference between a habitable planet and...

Regrowth of degraded tropical forests offsets ‘a quarter’ of deforestation emissions

Recovering forests can offset around a quarter of the emissions generated from deforestation in humid tropical regions, according to a new study.  Such forests...

Analysis: How the diversity of IPCC authors has changed over three decades

The proportion of female and global south authors of reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has risen over the past...

UK spaceports: the good, the bad and the ugly

Are spaceports the missing link needed to catalyse the UK space industry, or are they a can of worms best left...

Simpler Math Predicts How Close Ecosystems Are to Collapse

IntroductionFuzzy bumblebees, like tiny orange sheep, flit between the lilies that blanket the understory of an Argentinian forest, fertilizing the flowers and getting nourishment...

Launching worms into space, shading Earth with dust from the Moon

This week I interviewed two physicists in Germany about sending quantum technologies into space (stay...

£1 million grant for novel hydro energy storage system

BEIS-funded research project to identify and test minerals and discarded wastes for use in RheEnergise’s grid scale hydro energy storage system In partnership with...

Q&A: Will the UK’s new farm payments cut emissions and help nature?

The UK government has released details of its new funding schemes for farms in England, which are intended to boost the nation’s biodiversity and...

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