This study assesses targets for charging infrastructure at the borough level up to 2035, complementing the Delivery Plan created by the Mayor of London’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Taskforce. Specifically, it estimates the needs for public and private charging infrastructure in each of the 32 boroughs and the City of London, …
London: Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said published Wednesday that consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market …
London: A British court has ruled in favor of a group of young people who say pollution from a former steelworks contributed to their birth defects. Eighteen claimants aged between nine and 22 sued a local authority, claiming their mothers were exposed to what one expert called an
New Delhi: Scientists from Imperial College, London, on Tuesday announced a large-scale study which found that closing down schools entirely during a flu pandemic may cut infection rates by 40%. With almost 60% of the world
It could just have been a hairdryer. Instead, Cambridge University students have created a solar powered racing car that uses the same power as an ordinary hairdryer The car, which is one of the projects marking Cambridge University
LONDON: Members of the rights group, Survival International, held a protest outside the Indian High Commission here on Wednesday to seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
E.ON UK, Dong Energy and Masdar have agreed to push ahead with the London Array wind farm, giving a boost to the UK plan to build up massive offshore wind farms to meet its carbon reduction target. Frank Mastiaux, Chief Executive of E.ON Climate and Renewables, told reporters via a …
Three of Europe's biggest utilities bought land to build nuclear power plants in England and Wales Wednesday, in a sale that generated 387 million pounds to retire old reactors the government wants replaced. France's EDF bought a plot next to an old reactor at Bradwell near London, which it might …
Controversial US Doctor Claims To Have Implanted 11 Cloned Embryos In Wombs Of 4 Women London: A United States-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women. In an interview published on Wednesday, Panayiotis Zavos told Britain
Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is …
Most businesses are keeping up efforts to improve the energy efficiency of their information technology, despite having less available capital due to the slowdown, a survey by research group Gartner Inc. shows. Gartner asked 620 organisations worldwide, each with between 1,000 and 10,000 employees, whether they were having to cut …
Minor metal lithium is set to charge ahead to become the top material for batteries and vital for electric transport, but supplying any spike in demand could be fraught with difficulties. Bolivia, a poor but resource-rich country governed for the past three years by leftist Evo Morales, has about 50 …
Britain said on Saturday it was still looking into the possibility of introducing a car scrappage scheme to boost the recession-hit vehicle industry, despite a report that the Treasury was blocking the idea. Under the proposed scheme, cars more than nine years old could be scrapped in return for a …
The amount of litter dumped on beaches across Britain has more than doubled in the last 15 years to its highest ever level, endangering the health of wildlife and humans, according to a survey on Wednesday. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said its beachwatch 2008 annual survey had found an …
Mobile phone equipment makers are taking steps to clean up their act and tackle a goal of powering nearly 120,000 base stations in developing countries by cleaner energy sources by 2012, players in the industry say. The GSM Association, which represents 750 mobile operators worldwide, has said it aims to …
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday the upcoming budget will contain environmental measures to aid recovery from recession, including creating thousands of "green" jobs. He told the Independent newspaper that finance minister Alistair Darling would unveil the plans in the budget on April 22. Part of the budget …
The government launched a campaign on Tuesday to get the public to reuse carrier bags, saying each shopper got through 13,000 bags in a lifetime. "We simply can't continue using the billions of new plastic bags we do each year, it's such a huge waste and a visible symbol of …
Netherlands-based carbon project developer OneCarbon is seeking an equity injection of tens of millions of euros, including a possible takeover, the company told Reuters on Friday. OneCarbon wants to generate carbon offsets more cheaply under the UN's clean development mechanism, a strategy made more urgent by falling carbon prices and …
