Northern fulmars are known to swallow plastic regularly, with unknown effects. Image: By Peter Pearsall/US Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Tim Radford Artificial fibres now go everywhere. The oceans’ plastic tide may reach their whole depth, entering marine life and people. The world’s seas [...]
Edinburgh castle: the city could face evacuation if two Scottish reactors were to fail. Image: By Nacckers, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown Local authorities demand the closure of all the UK’s ageing nuclear power plants to protect both safety and the economy. Four of the UK’s ageing [...]
The Hywind floating wind farm off the coast of Scotland. Image: By Øyvind_Gravås/© Equinor This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Paul Brown The global offshore wind industry is booming, rapidly growing in size and earning vastly more across the globe. Despite Covid-19’s grim effects on many industries, the orders for the global offshore [...]
Discarded plastic transforms a vista where every prospect used to please. Image: By Antoine GIRET on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Tim Radford In a throwaway world, some discards are forever. New research measures the crisis of the world’s waste plastic. Without immediate, sustained and concerted action worldwide, the flow of waste plastic [...]
By Barney Smith Even before this issue was highlighted, there was no doubt that one of the casualties of the Covid 19 pandemic would be the campaign to reduce the use of plastic in the world, particularly single-use plastic. That is hardly surprising, one of the main focuses of the fight against the virus has [...]
By Stewart Dalby For the past two years Ceres Power Holdings, the fuel cell group, has been a high- flying stock on London’s AIM. When we wrote about Ceres on 22 January this year we said: “The share price of Ceres Power Holdings has been increasing steadily from 213 pence at the end of November [...]
Nuclear power station at Hunterston in Scotland. Image: By Jonathon champton at English Wikimedia This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Paul Brown UK wind energy is forced to shut down to let more expensive nuclear stations go on operating at full power. The United Kingdom’s nuclear industry is hindering the use of wind [...]
Work continues on Hinkley C, the latest reactor to be built on the site. Image: EDF This article, first published recently by our partner website www.climatenewsnetwork.net, is a second piece run by us consecutively on the prospects of nuclear power meeting 100 per cent of the UK's energy needs by 2050 rather than renewables by Paul Brown [...]
Dredger at work in the Bristol Channel. Image: By Ben Salter, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown Arguments over where to dump huge amounts of potentially radioactive mud are now ensnarling the UK’s nuclear plans. Vast quantities of mud, which campaigners say may contain radioactive particles, are the [...]
By Stewart Dalby On 21 February this year we published an article which said, “Eden Research suffered a blip in its fortunes in 2019, but expects better times in the rest of 2020”. Simply put, Eden’s flagship product had a bad patch for a period in 2019. Following this blip the company started to put [...]