Environment

Italy’s first ship-to-ship bio-LNG bunkering operation has been carried out at the Port of Genoa by Swiss energy solutions firm Axpo and Italian ferry operator GNV (MSC Group), supported by the Maritime Authority of Genoa. The ship-to-ship bunkering operation involved the refuelling of new ferry GNV Virgo (pictured, above), the first Italian long-distance ro-pax vessel […]

An electric Cummins heavy-duty truck charges as it drives along a test segment on US Highway 52 in West Lafayette, Indiana (image credit: Purdue University photo/Kelsey Lefever). A US research team has successfully wirelessly charged a heavy-duty electric truck while it was travelling at full motorway speeds, in a seemingly important milestone for global efforts

Comedienne Rachel Parris presented the awards in Edinburgh on 4 December. Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Farm, located 15.5km off the coast of Fife, which became fully operational earlier this year, has been handed a top award by Scotland’s renewable energy industry. The 450MW wind farm has scooped the ‘Outstanding Project Award’ at this

In what seems an important advance, and a relatively rare one with UK sports infrastructure, Manchester City has announced that its City Football Academy, home to the club’s 16 training pitches, now irrigates exclusively with rainwater. The facility therefore has zero reliance on external water sources, conserving local water supplies, and reducing the club’s environmental

Parts of the sea floor are veritable rubbish dumps, say the authors. Strict technical and environmental criteria are needed to guide any direct efforts at clean-up, to avoid causing even greater harm (image credit: JAMSTEC). A recent study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin itemises the practical steps required to create a roadmap for combating marine

Bottle manufacturing: Responsible Glass will be working with the entire glass sector including the container glass sector (pictured). Some of the world’s largest glass developers, producers and packaging companies have come together for the launch of Responsible Glass — a global certification programme intended to bring new sustainability standards to glass production and sourcing. The

Air defence radar technology on wind turbines has been successfully demonstrated at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, marking a seemingly significant milestone in the UK’s efforts to balance clean energy expansion with national defence priorities. The work was completed by LiveLink Aerospace, in collaboration with Vattenfall and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. When wind turbines

Tree seeding: a drone-level view A groundbreaking woodland creation project in the Scottish Borders has seen advanced drone technology deployed to seed over two million native trees across inaccessible upland areas. For the first time in the UK, heavy lift drones have been licensed to operate to beyond the line of sight while dispersing pelleted

Aberdeen: The report recommends coordinated action to grow demand for green hydrogen in difficult-to-decarbonise sectors such as maritime operations. Scotland has the potential to be a major global producer of green hydrogen but the UK Government must rapidly step up its support for the sector, says a report published today (4 December) by industry body

The International Space Station (elements of this image furnished by NASA). From reusable rockets to space stations that could one day recycle floating debris into new materials, a first-of-its-kind study from the University of Surrey and the UK Space Agency sets out the world’s first roadmap to a circular space economy. Published in Chem Circularity,