A Swiss firm is on track to solve the conundrum of where to site industrial solar farms, by turning railways into power plants. Switzerland needs to boost solar energy output seven-fold by 2035 to ...

Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said experts Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate ...

No toilets, expensive food of dubious quality, crowded housing. This was the reality for many in 1840s Britain. And it was set to get worse: cholera had already claimed the lives of 50,000 people in ...

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Hattie Hasan, founder of the National Register of Tradeswomen A digger operator in Yorkshire, a tree surgeon in the Midlands and a stonemason in Scotland are among the experts to feature on a national ...

Ecuador returned land to an Indigenous tribe Eight decades after they were expelled from their ancestral land in the Amazon, the Indigenous Siekopai people will now be able to return. It follows a ...

1) Think beyond sleep Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, a physician and author, believes there are seven types of rest: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, creative and spiritual. Most people tend to ...

As well as providing a salve for England and Wales’ £143-million pothole headache, the invention could pave the way for more sustainable road-building. “We want to mimic the healing properties ...

Mwa Namupopa shared what she had learned with her husband and encouraged him to attend a men’s discussion group. “There we learned that women were human beings just like men with the same rights,” ...

Deloitte introduced equal parental leave In a win for equality, the accounting giant Deloitte is to introduce equal parental leave for UK employees. From 2025, fathers working at the firm will get 26 ...

Meanwhile, in the US … Despite attempts by the Trump administration to stymie green energy projects, wind and solar are surging across the US. New data shows that renewables accounted for 98% of the ...