Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Jackery’s Solar Mars autonomous robot wins the prestigious TIME Best Inventions of 2023 award in the “Green Energy” category. Jackery, a leading global provider of innovative portable power and green outdoor energy solutions, created in its 11th anniversary the award-winning Jackery Solar Mars Bot featuring expandable solar panels to produce clean energy. The Jackery Solar […]

Rolls-Royce introduces the Space Micro-Reactor model for Moon exploration at the UK Space Conference. In March 2023, Rolls-Royce received a funding boost of £2.9m from the UK Space Agency to support the research on using nuclear power for a future Moon base. Rolls-Royce scientists in collaboration with strategic partners, have been tackling various aspects of […]

  Sustainability is a challenge for football, horse racing, motorsports, and indeed every form of UK sporting venue.  This article explores the challenges and opportunities and concludes with an early case study of how a horse racing venue is taking early steps to improve. The Environmental Footprint of Sporting Events Sporting events have long been […]

Fernando Tuya Cortés, from ECOAQUA’s Biodiversity and Conservation Group, discusses his article: ‘Strong phylogenetic signal and models of trait evolution evidence phylogenetic niche conservatism for seagrasses.’ Seagrasses are a group of flowering plants fully adapted to life in the sea. Aquatic flowering plants Seagrasses are a group of marine angiosperms (i.e., flowering plants) fully adapted […]

T-Omega floating wind turbine prototype was successfully tested with the launch of the 1/16 scale model in New Bedford, MA. T-Omega’s test marks a major achievement for both T-Omega Wind, Inc. and the offshore wind industry, which is encountering challenges with rising deployment and maintenance costs. T-Omega Wind’s innovative and lighter prototype demonstrates that adopting […]

David Alejandro Sánchez-Núñez, J. Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodríguez and José Ernesto Mancera Pineda talk us through Journal of Applied Ecology’s December’s Editor’s Choice research article. This study demonstrates that climate-smart restoration in mangroves should implement the types of hydrological rehabilitation measures that offset or avoid reinforcing ENSO strong phases. History of cover fluctuations in a strategic mangrove […]

Shihong Jia and Bastien Castagneyrol discuss their article: ‘Neighbouring tree effects on leaf herbivory: insect specialization matters more than host plant leaf traits.’ Background Insect herbivores feed on plants and play a crucial role in determining plant performance, population, and community dynamics. This role is particularly significant in forests where insect herbivores can change the […]

Dual-Chemistry Battery. Connected by a special converter, two batteries team up to give you over 600 miles on just one charge. Our Next Energy Inc. (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage tech company, shares that the Gemini dual-chemistry battery achieved an impressive 608.1 miles in a BMW iX using a single charge. This milestone was confirmed […]

This blog post on ‘Ecosystem structure and energy flow’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ blog series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology. See the full blog series for a list of key topics that you might typically find in an ecology textbook, each providing a short […]

The world’s largest fusion reactor just started. Japan’s JT-60SA tokamak will test technologies put to use in ITER. The world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor was activated in Japan, marking a significant step in fusion technology as a potential solution to our future energy needs. Image credit National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology Unlike […]