Guiding policy on oceans’ food production potential
As an ever-expanding human population creates spiralling demand for food, policymakers are looking to the oceans to help prevent a crisis.
Dragon eggs: Drone-deployed remote environmental monitoring (Italy)
We are developing sensor pods that can be delivered to a volcano by drone, transmitting data wirelessly, enabling the monitoring of inaccessible volcanoes.
Resilience of transport networks to flood-induced bridge failures
Road networks are fundamental for keeping the country running safely and efficiently. Bridges are crucial elements of these networks, since they cross over otherwise impassable obstacles.
How do we redress the balance between energy security, environmental sustainability and social impact?
Exploring peer-to-peer ‘free trade’ in excess energy
Households and businesses that generate their own power through micro-renewables, such as solar panels and wind turbines, may soon be able to decide where to distribute their extra energy using ‘sharing platform’ technology.
Riding Sunbeams seeks to connect solar PV directly into the UK’s electrified rail network to power trains. Direct supply of solar power traction to railway systems has never been done before, neither in the UK nor anywhere else in the world. Its potential to decarbonize railways is huge.
‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery.
Breaking the law to save the world
What can we understand about people who break the law to save the environment and what is 'appropriate' protest in this time of great environmental change?
Bristol and the Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were ratified by the UN’s member nations. But who’s going to take responsibility for making sure we achieve them?
How do city dwellers already learn with each other and, with the resources of the city, how do they adapt to change and initiate new ways of living?