Net Hero Podcast – The bugs that will grow clothes made from thin air!

Meet the bugs making products from Greenhouse gases! Join my chat with Mark Herrema and explore the world of ‘Air Carbon’

UK company dives deep to sink carbon

A UK-based carbon removal company is conducting seaweed biomass sinking trials to assess the carbon removal potential of seaweed

Bacteria can “eat” plastic pollution in Britain’s lakes

New research found that a specific type of bacteria uses plastic as food and is able to break down natural organic matter in lakes

Could bacteria mean sustainable mining?

Researchers are investigating whether bacteria could extract the elements needed for computers, EVs and mobile phones – all powered by sugar…

Bacteria to help recycle EV batteries?

New research claims bacteria could be the eco-friendly answer to recycling lithium-ion batteries

Plastic waste gets a vanilla flavour!

Scientists have developed a method to upcycle PET plastic into vanillin, a flavour compound used in the food and cosmetic industries

Diarrhoea AND electricity? This bacteria can do it all!

Listeria monocytogenes is able to generate its own power, which scientists say could be harnessed

Bacteria love the taste of nuclear waste!

Certain bacteria could live off nuclear waste and in the process of doing so, make it safer to store. That’s according to researchers at the University of Manchester, who have shown certain microbes can make use of radioactive particles such as uranium and neptunium in place of oxygen. In doing so, they convert these dangerous […]

Royal Navy jacks up air con energy savings

The Royal Navy is about to hoist up its energy savings with upgrades to the air conditioning and heating systems on its warships. HVAC firm E-CO UK was commissioned by engineering firm BAE Systems to improve the air treatment units on 14 British Royal Navy frigates. Air con is needed as many of the Type […]

Bacteria-powered cars? Bugs make diesel on demand

Most people might associate E.coli with a bit of bad chicken – but in a few decades it could be known as a fuel. That’s because new research by Exeter University has shown the bacteria can make diesel on demand. Produced by special strains of E. coli bacteria, the fuel is almost identical to conventional […]