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Image copyright Eviation Image caption Eviation’s nine-seater electric aircraft, Alice, was a hit at the Paris Airshow Aerospace firms are joining forces to tackle their industry’s growing contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, with electric engines seen as one solution. But will this be enough to offset the growing demand for air travel? This week’s Paris […]

Scientists from round the world are meeting in Germany to improve ways of making money from carbon dioxide. They want to transform some of the CO2 that’s overheating the planet into products to benefit humanity. They don’t claim the technology will solve climate change, but they say it will help. Carbon dioxide is already being

Image copyright PA A £100m fund has been established to help UK firms capitalise on the boom in offshore wind. With the UK so well suited to exploiting wind power, turbines have been erected in more than 30 locations from Brighton to the Moray Firth. But trade unions say the boom has not generated enough

Image copyright Getty Images Five people have been arrested and questioned over alleged accounting fraud at the Patisserie Valerie chain, the Serious Fraud Office has said. The arrests took place last Tuesday, 18 June, in a joint operation with police, the SFO said. The move comes eight months after the firm’s former finance director, Chris

New research suggests almost half of packaging used by major UK supermarkets can’t be easily recycled or recycled at all. Food is wrapped in packaging to make it last longer but a consumer group says that a lot of it is unnecessary, that more sustainable materials should be used and that recycling labels should be

Image copyright Google Image caption The agreement between the Seventh Heaven venue and the GMB union is the first of its kind in Scotland Dancers and staff at a Glasgow lap-dancing club have signed a trade union agreement with their employers. They will be now able to bargain collectively over their terms and conditions following

Image copyright AFP Image caption Hundreds of protesters joined forces to break into the mine and march through it Hundreds of climate change activists have stormed an open cast coal mine in western Germany to campaign against fossil fuels. The protesters ran through fields and broke through a police cordon to get into the Garzweiler

Image copyright Alstom Image caption Alstom’s proposed design for a HS2 train Business leaders are calling on the next prime minister to commit to delivering HS2 in full. In an open letter, more than 20 business leaders say continued backing for the next phase of the £56bn high-speed rail network project is vital. Construction of

Image copyright Reuters Big companies are scrambling to grab a share of the $150bn (£119bn) global cannabis market, eyeing products as diverse as beer and dog treats. That’s according to a report by Standard & Poor’s which predicts further expansion as legal cannabis becomes acceptable. The report by the ratings agency says growth may be

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Slack founder Stewart Butterfield was behind the Flickr photo app Another tech start-up made a blockbuster debut on the US stock market last week, with shares in Slack ending the week more than 40% higher. That values the Silicon Valley-based business at $20bn, not bad for a messaging app that