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Britain could reduce the impact of rising global gas prices and supply concerns caused by the conflict in the Gulf by rapidly increasing domestic green gas production, according to the UK’s anaerobic digestion industry. Trade association the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) says existing biomethane plants could increase production by almost a third within

The method utilises PFAS taken from firefighting foam samples. A group at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a process to use PFAS to extract lithium from high-salinity brine pools, in a study recently published in Nature Water. “Extracting lithium from brine can be less environmentally damaging than conventional mining, but it still faces

The UK government has announced plans to bring forward the next auction for renewable energy projects as part of efforts to accelerate investment in domestic clean power and strengthen energy security. In a statement released by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 15 March, ministers said the next Contracts for Difference (CfD)

Environment Agency data released this month has uncovered the scale of WEEE non-compliance of product sold through online marketplaces, reports lighting circularity expert Recolight. For the last four and a half months of 2025, online marketplaces were legally required to report sales of electrical products imported into the UK via their platforms. And that data

Delegates at the British Water International Reception 2026. Water resilience should be regarded as a national security priority, delegates to the British Water International Forum 2026 heard on 23 February. Speaking at the event in London, Andy Roby, senior water resources advisor for the UK government’s Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), said, that there

Fly-tipping on a housing estate. A new national conference taking place on 19 March (online) will address the growing challenge of waste crime, following new Government data showing that fly‑tipping incidents in England have risen to their highest level since records began. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Waste Crime Conference, supported by the

The fire in Glasgow on 8 March (image credit: Madison Caldwell, CC BY-SA 4.0). A major fire in a building next to Glasgow Central station on 8 March – which forced the closure of Scotland’s busiest railway hub – has put the spotlight once again on longstanding concerns about the safety of lithium-ion batteries. More

Workers operate equipment to produce photovoltaic circuit boards at a production workshop of a green energy technology company in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, in 2021. New research suggests that concerns about relying too heavily on Chinese manufacturing are shaping climate policy – and could even delay the adoption of green technologies around the world. The study

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has released a new report to complement its 2025 advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitude is likely to