Eco-Innovation

Tevva has launched a 7.5-tonne battery-electric truck whose normal range can be doubled or tripled to around 500 km using hydrogen as a backup energy source.

Battery or hydrogen? Truck makers are facing a fork in the road

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The McMurtry Spéirling has set a new speed record at Goodwood.

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Candela P-12 Shuttle

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Lightyear's solar powered car

Lightyear's car runs on sunshine — but is it in your price range?

China has announced a significant step forward in their bid for space-based solar power.

Will the world soon be powered by space-based solar energy?

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Meet the Indian maths teacher who built his own solar-powered car

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Tissues from the ear of a nine-year-old female jaguar which died at Chester Zoo are being kept for posterity at Nature's SAFE.

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A picture shows an automated beehive, part of the high-tech Beehome project, in Israel on May 14, 2022.

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Army of seed-firing drones will plant 100 million trees by 2024

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Biofuel could help Europe reduce its dependency on Russian gas.

As G7 commits to banning Russian oil, is fermented fuel the answer?

10/05/2022

Dr Fabien Laurier using the new global waste finding tool.

Plastic waste can now be found and monitored from space

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Mahendra Kumar is the man behind the garden

Meet Delhi’s guerrilla gardener making rickshaws green

07/05/2022

Wind turbines being built at the Greater Changhua Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan.

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There are three broad kinds of meat substitute, but microbial 'meat' may have the environmental edge.

Is fermented mushroom ‘meat’ the solution to our beef addiction?

05/05/2022

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