As of 2026, sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have moved from experimental curiosities to a pivotal commercial reality, offering a cheaper, safer, and more abundant alternative to the lithium-ion systems that have dominated the last decade.

A discovery by a team at the University of Missouri may lead to an easy and natural way of cleaning microplastics from wastewater.

The UK government has officially embarked on a major environmental infrastructure initiative to plant 20 million trees across western England by 2050. This launches the development of the “Western Forest” with a quadruple goal of encouraging biodiversity, mitigating floods and droughts, expanding the number of accessible public green spaces, and sequestering carbon.