This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website By Alex KIrfby A British study says consumers must be able to make sustainable choices more easily on products containing palm oil. − Companies selling products which contain palm oil need to be upfront about where it comes from, so as to relieve consumers of [...]
By Stewart Dalby Some of you might remember that I began last year’s Christmas message saying that 2017 had been a year of mixed fortunes for Greenbarrel. In February 2017 our original website Greenbarrel.org crashed. Various attempts made to resuscitate it failed. The three founders of Greenbarrel myself, Barney Smith and Julian Singer spent from [...]
The global climate is heading fast for crisis. Image by Ankit Gupta on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net by Alex Kirby The annual UN global warming conference is over. Despite some progress, the Katowice climate talks show political action still lags far behind the science. LONDON, 17 December, 2018 − By tradition, United Nations conferences on [...]
Sellafield: Its plutonium is now classed as “an asset of zero value”. Image: By Simon Ledingham, via Wikimedia This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net By Paul Brown Nobody knows what to do with [...]
Ceres Power Holdings is a manufacturer of a solid-oxide fuel cell known as the SteelCellTM.. The AIM-listed company is now making significant headway commercially by reaching deals to supply this unique proprietary technology to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This enables the OEMS to develop power systems on an industrial scale. This was not always the [...]
AIM-listed Accsys Technologies is a chemical technology company specialising in the acetylation of wood, a process that makes the wood stronger and prevents decay. Their primary focus is the production of Accoya solid wood and Tricoya wood elements, used for windows, doors, decking, cladding and other construction products The company’s main activity is the Accoya [...]
A new attraction has been added to the Sussex coast in southern England along with the beaches, the wonderfully renovated pier in Worthing and the not so wonderful British Airways i360 531-foot observation platform at the landward end of the now broken-down West Pier in Brighton. Eight and a half miles off the Sussex coast, [...]
This article first appeared on Climate News Network.net by Alex Kirby Growing enough greenery to provide cleaner fuel and slow climate change will need a biofuel land grab: a 10 to 30-fold rise in land devoted to green crops. LONDON, 21 November, 2018 − Replacing fossil fuels with alternatives derived from some natural sources may [...]
Maybe it was because Green & Smart had such a dismal time of it around 16 August 2018 that the company felt obliged to make an upbeat statement soon afterwards – at the AGM on 25 October – saying everything was in order and that the company was in a stronger position than hitherto. The [...]
Forests store carbon – but how effectively is unclear. Image by Manuel Meurisse on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network by Tim Radford How forest carbon storage affects climate change is a vital part of scientists’ calculations. But fresh uncertainties keep on sprouting. LONDON, 6 November, 2018 – Two new studies have just made one of the [...]