Environment
Make smart connected products better for our future circular economy
Do you have ideas to help make the things we use work better for us and help the environment? Could you make them a reality with the help of an international team located on three ...
Fatbergs in our sewers – are modern culinary habits to blame?
Food is crucial in our life. Since the Neolithic period, our eating habits have dramatically evolved. Early man lived a nomadic life, hunting and picking fruits and vegetables. The revolution in our ancestors’ lifestyles came ...
Flooding in the Aire: why we can reduce floods in the UK
As a researcher looking at sediment transport and storage in the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, I need rain. Rain causes surface runoff and runoff causes erosion, which eventually results in sediment transported towards and within the river. When I ...
Drones in the Cumbria skies: the floods of Christmas
Christmas 2015 will not be remembered as a white Christmas, but as a wet one. The media was full of images of the homes ruined by floods, particularly in Cumbria, as a result of winter ...
Entrepreneurship and making water from waste: Bottles for Growth and the Social Venture Challenge
Cranfield University’s Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship recently organised the University’s first Social Venture Challenge, a start-up weekend aimed at encouraging students to 'think like entrepreneurs' about ways to solve complex social and environmental issues to ...
After COP21, could a sunshield for the Earth prevent further global warming and climate change?
The COP21 climate talks in Paris set challenging targets to try and curb global warming by keeping the global temperature rise to 'well below' 2°C. Why does this matter? One of climate scientists’ fears is ...