Manufacturers have urged the government to revive the northern section of HS2 in order to allow an expansion of rail freight in the UK.

AI, has been officially launched in Bristol, with promises that it could enable breakthroughs in areas such as medicine, robotics and climate change.

Nature Towns and Cities has launched to bring nature and green spaces closer to people living in urban areas across the UK.

Efforts in east Asia to tackle air pollution might have led to a further acceleration in global warming, a study has found.

When two Californian professors thought up the CubeSat at the turn of the third millennium, they had no idea they would set off a revolution in how things are done in space. And all they wanted was to ...

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The North Sea oil boom of the 1980s created colossal revenues for the United Kingdom and its neighbour Norway. Today, as both nations move towards a fossil-free future, we examine how the aftermath of ...

The Pantheon in Rome, now a church, was built as a temple to all the gods. It has been a shrine for architects since the Renaissance. It is also a worthy tribute to the skills of the ancient Roman ...

Open-source intelligence and interviews tell a story about how oil-giant Chevron, when accused of devastating pollution in the rainforest of Ecuador, managed to make its defence a personal case ...

The UK faces one of its greatest-ever engineering challenges as it seeks to combat climate change while keeping the lights on. If it is to succeed, the pace of delivery will be crucial. Developers ...

Evidence uncovered by E&T appears to show that lithium-mining company SQM is playing a direct role in damaging the local environment in Chile’s Atacama salt flats, as its activities reduce water ...

A family of toxic, indestructible chemicals have contaminated the planet over the past 80 years, risking people’s health. Engineers are now racing to find ways to scrub those chemicals from our ...