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Bacteria and catalysts

Added: 22 May 2003

Bacteria could soon have a major role to play in recycling precious metals from spent autom…

Hydrogen to power Freeport

Added: 8 May 2003

Dow Chemical is working with GM to determine whether GM's hydrogen fuel cells can be used t…

Do you comply with ATEX?

Added: 2 May 2003

The ATEX directives, regulating equipment in atmospheres containing hazardous liquids, gases or dus…

Plastic recycling

Added: 22 Apr 2003

Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University are develo…

Greenhouse gasses reduced

Added: 28 Mar 2003

Emissions of the 'basket' of six greenhouse gases, weighted by global warming potential, are fallin…

How to play the energy game

Added: 12 Mar 2003

If, as Harold Wilson once said, 'a week is a long time in politics', what are we to make of…

Food for thought

Added: 12 Mar 2003

Environmental legislation is now high on the corporate agenda for the UK food and drink industry. H…

FutureGen aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions

Added: 28 Feb 2003

The US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has announced plans for the US to build FutureGe…

It's a gas

Added: 17 Feb 2003

Researchers at the University of Warwick are leading a programme called 'Hydrofueler' to connect pe…

Greener blacktop

Added: 14 Feb 2003

Shell claims that its 'WAM-Foam' enables asphalt to be produced at lower temperatures, providing sa…

Storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks

Added: 14 Feb 2003

A space-saving method for storing spent nuclear fuel has dramatically heightened the risk o…

An alternative to zeolite?

Added: 10 Feb 2003

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have synthesised a large family of semiconduc…

Smallpox screensaver

Added: 6 Feb 2003

Using the idle time of computers like yours and mine, researchers at the University of Oxford aim t…

Safe or sorry

Added: 3 Feb 2003

Most products are certified as safe by the companies that actually make them. But is this 'self-cer…

Sticky stuff

Added: 3 Feb 2003

Insights into particle behaviour could help laboratory equipment maker Varian and Canada's Alberta …

Bacteria can eat pesticide

Added: 3 Feb 2003

Researchers have found that two microorganisms are capable of breaking down Endosulfan, a chlorine-…

BASF invests in fuel cells

Added: 3 Feb 2003

BASF's venture capital arm has invested heavily in a new company which is developing rechargeable …

Less colourful fish means better eyesight

Added: 27 Jan 2003

Following scientific assessments establishing a link between high canthaxanthin intake and …

Any old tyres?

Added: 20 Jan 2003

Ajax, Ontario-based Environmental Waste International has made the first commercial sale of…

Hazid makes chemical processing plants safer

Added: 14 Jan 2003

Manufacturers will be getting a helping hand to make their chemical processing plants safer and mor…