Chemistry has led to environmental woes, but it can tackle them too
Our indiscriminate development and use of chemicals has left an unwanted legacy, but chemistry’s untapped green potential means it can be part of the solution too
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The race is on to tackle climate change by pulling carbon from the air
By Adam Vaughan Energy firm Drax has a biomass power plant in Yorkshire, UK Clare Jackson/Alamy A CATTLE shed near Edinburgh sucking up methane emissions and a team altering the acidity of seawater in the English Channel might seem unlikely prospects for avoiding increasingly dangerous climate change. But they are just two of 24 projects taking part … Read more
Pollution is the forgotten global crisis and we need to tackle it now
By Graham Lawton Leon Werdinger/Alamy Stock Photo IN THE lead-up to Christmas, my household began to feel like a badly managed waste-processing facility. We planned to spend time with vulnerable relatives, so were keeping a close eye on our covid-19 status. Each lateral flow test generated seven items of non-recyclable waste, which piled up in … Read more