Deep Oil: Unlocking the Poles
The arrival of peak oil — the point in time when global oil production peaks and begins to forever decline — has loomed for...
House of Lords backs call to end digital poverty
THE HOUSE of Lords Communications and Digital Committee is calling for essential action and the creation of a cross-governmental unit to end digital poverty.
Thomas...
Bhutan: Sustainable Happiness
At around the time Abba were raising a glass of Babycham to toast their number one chart success with Waterloo, the good folk of...
Case study: Jeff Bezos
Amazon boss gives peers a tactical lesson in how you can achieve growth while going for broke
NESTLED on the outskirts of a former coal...
Mutant enzyme can break down PET plastic in matter of hours
SCIENTISTS have developed a bacterial enzyme that breaks down plastic bottles for recycling — within hours.
The “mutant” enzyme, engineered after being found in a...
EV News Round-up Winter 2019-20
By RICHARD THOMAS
THE MOST-CLICKED recent news story in the world of electric vehicles has been the launch of the Tesla Cybertruck.
In itself that wouldn’t...
Dirty rotten plastic? Biodegradable film cuts pollution and costs
A new Spanish firm hopes to end agricultural plastic waste with an environmentally friendly product. HAL WILLIAMS speaks to the founders…
PLASTIC is pretty much...
Eden Full Goh: Here Comes the Sun
Eden Full Goh was barely ten when she picked up a book at the neighbourhood library with detailed instructions on how to build a...
Chat GPT ‘could usher-in the four-day week’
MORE than a quarter of UK organisations are likely to make redundancies in 2023, according to research from HR consultancy Ayming UK — but...
Oh What a Circus, Oh What a Show: Marissa Mayer and...
The struggling Internet portal, which in February announced plans to axe 15% of its workforce, was the gateway of choice to the internet for...
