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The UK’s largest wood-burning power plant is to trial bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – but will it do enough to cut emissions?
Middle- and low-income households are being priced out of owning their homes as average house prices reach levels last seen in the 2000s.
Supply chains are facing a complex and unpredictable world in the year ahead.
Has the summit delivered on its goals?
Cold-water corals live in the Atlantic’s frigid depths – and the UK is a stronghold for them.
The strategy is welcome, but does not go nearly far enough.
This is a transcript of part 2 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Listen to the second episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
Insulate Britain, a new environmental campaign group, is right to highlight the need for action on home insulation.
There have been winners and losers – and not all of them were predictable.
Structures are built to withstand a normal range of conditions. But what’s ‘normal’ is changing rapidly.
The sustained lack of trust between migrants and health professionals is leading to dire consequences
District heating can recycle waste heat and pump it where it’s needed.
Researchers wanted to bridge the gap between traditional beliefs and Western understanding of the pandemic to provide strategies to reduce the risks.
The maintenance required for renewable tech like windfarms can harm the environment. Robots are helping solve that.
The public holds self-driving cars to incredibly high safety standards – and we’re working to meet them.
Lockdown may be a socially alienating experience, but for this academic, art has been especially redeeming.
Agreements between the EU and its partner countries for fishing rights could be a great vehicle to push sustainability but more must be done before we can say they are doing that.
Whales are rediscovering their old haunts in the Arctic and Southern oceans after centuries of hunting.
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Professor of Physics, Heriot-Watt University
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Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Real Estate, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Energy and Buildings, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Physics, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Urban Studies, Heriot-Watt University
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Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University in Dubai, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Heriot-Watt University
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Assistant Professor, Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
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Assistant Professor in Textile Design, School of Textiles and Design, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Physics, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate Professor of Work and Employment, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development, Heriot-Watt University
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Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Psychology, The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University
