UN Releases Report On Air Quality Standard Laws
About a third of the world's countries lack laws about air quality standards. In countries where such laws exist, they often fail to comply with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.…
Potential Oxygen-delivering Hydrogel Could Accelerate Diabetic Wound Healing
According to the paper “Preventing foot ulcers in patients with diabetes” published in 2005 by Singh, Nalini, David G. Armstrong, and Benjamin A. Lipsky, approximately a quarter of diabetic patients…
Lab-Made Furs Could Replace Breeding for Fur
The fashion industry is being revolutionized as scientists have achieved the world’s first in vitro hair follicle inseparably linked to collagen in order to cultivate cell-based fur and wool. Startup…
Mars puts Water Recycling on the Agenda for Mexican Sites
FMCG major Mars has committed to ‘water balance’ at five of its manufacturing sites in Mexico by 2025 - targeting areas experiencing water scarcity. The sites, including Guadalajara, Montemorelos, Queretaro,…
Green Fuels’ Brewery and Dairy Waste Project gets BEIS Funding
Gloucestershire-based company Green Fuels has been awarded funding under the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme for its project looking at repurposing waste from…
Qatar Partners with Eat Just for First Cultivated Meat Facility in Middle East
San Francisco-based startup Eat Just has announced its collaboration with Qatar state-backed firms Doha Venture Capital (DVC) and Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) to build what it claims is the…
Commentary: The UK’s new E10 fuel – Smooth Sailing, or a Bumpy Ride?
The UK’s new kind of petrol - E10 - is set to be introduced to cut emissions by as much as 750,000 tonnes per year. But what are the challenges…
Shell Campaign Labeled ‘Greenwashing’ by watchdog
A carbon credit campaign run by British-Dutch multinational Shell has been denounced as greenwashing by Dutch watchdog the Advertising Code Committee. The campaign, which shows fuel purchases as carbon neutral…
CULT Food Science Corp. Invests in Gourmet Cell-Cultured Meat
CULT Food Science Corp., the Canadian investment platform has finalized a strategic investment in Novel Farms, a California based company that specializes in cell-cultured meat. So far, CULT has exclusively…
HyGear and GPS Renewables Join Forces on Green Hydrogen Projects
HyGear’s subsidiary, HyGear Asia, announced it has signed an agreement with GPS Renewables, a waste management cleantech firm with almost up to 100 modular biogas installations in India. The two…
Bühler and DIL Open Technology Centre Proteins of the Future
Bühler AG, the Swiss technology group and the food technology research institute DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (German Institute of Food Technologies) have revealed the Technology Centre Proteins of the Future…
Maersk Bets on Carbon Neutral Shipping
The world’s largest container shipping company, AP Møller Maersk, has invested $7 billion (€5.95 billion) in order to advance its decarbonisation strategy. Maersk ordered eight container vessels from Hyundai Heavy…