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04 08 2017

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has entered into a strategic partnership with Entrepreneurial Scotland with the aim of tackling waste tyres as an environmental issue. The new partnership announced at the...

04 08 2017

Becoming more efficient and taking a long term approach to your impact and dependencies on nature may be daunting but there are tools to support business in this journey. To...

04 08 2017

The recyclable plastic bags you get at the green grocer are not biodegradable. But product life-cycle assessments, which are about to become more prominent in the marketplace, fail to consider...

04 08 2017

With mining of cobalt and other elements politically and ethically charged, the hunt for alternatives is on. Britain last week joined France in pledging to ban sales of petrol and diesel...

04 08 2017

The planet is getting hotter. Last year was the warmest year on record, with planetary temperatures passing the symbolic milestone of 1C above pre-industrial levels, according to the World Meteorological...

04 08 2017

Los recientes desarrollos científicos internacionales en teledetección son rápidos y significativos, lo cual conduce a la distribución de datos cuantitativos sobre los parámetros eco-hidrológicos relevantes para todo el mundo. Trabajando con un equipo de...

27 07 2017

Flexible sensors hold great promise for various innovative applications in fields such as medicine, healthcare, environment, and biology. Considering that most wearable systems, healthcare electronics, and laboratory-on-a-chip testing tools can...

27 07 2017

In reforming and updating its environmental laws, China has until recently been focusing on air pollution. Attention is now turning to addressing water and soil pollution as well. For example,...

27 07 2017

Korea: Samsung will recover an estimated 157 tons of gold, silver, cobalt and copper for recycling from the Galaxy Note 7 devices it took out of circulation due to safety concerns....

27 07 2017

Australia: Up to 99.2% of cobalt can be 'economically recovered' from spent lithium batteries thanks to a new technology developed by Australian firm Neometals. The construction of a pilot-scale hydrometallurgical plant...