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This Market Business News category includes all of our articles that are related to science or the environment. This includes research projects in science and events that have an impact on the environment (be it beneficial or detrimental). This page is where you will find information on what is happening in the renewable energy industry, news to do with the electric or hybrid vehicle market, and information about electricity consumption, etc.
Microgrids market to expand rapidly over next few years
Forecasters predict that the next few years will see strong growth in the microgrids market. Microgrids are self-contained networks that have many of the features of a main electricity grid, such as generators, storage, and consumers, but…
ScottishPower gain consent for offshore wind farm using ‘next generation’ turbines
The United Kingdom government have given planning permission for ScottishPower Renewables to build a large offshore wind farm off the coast of East Anglia. ScottishPower Renewables, owned by Spanish energy firm Iberdrola, will be building…
Solar energy captured in Sahara Desert could be exported to Europe
Europe could soon be getting electricity made from solar energy captured by a plant in the Sahara Desert. A request to start building the plant has just been filed with the Tunisian government. The proposed site of the solar plant in the…
Mangrove forests disappearing faster than average forest loss
Despite their huge ecological and economic value, mangrove forests are disappearing much faster than the average rate of forests around the world. Fortunately, although still patchy, awareness of their ecological and economic value is…
Ravens can plan ahead as well as apes
By getting them to solve problems not found in nature, scientists have shown that ravens can plan ahead to a certain extent, an ability that was thought to be confined to humans and the great apes. In a recently published Science study, two…
Teleportation becomes a science fact, no longer fiction
Teleportation is no longer science fiction, says a team of Chinese scientists, after teleporting a photon particle from the Earth's surface to an orbiting satellite 870 miles (1,400 km) away. This does not mean, however, that we are now…
Blue whale skeleton Hope replaces Dippy, Natural History Museum
The giant skeleton of a blue whale called Hope, replacing Dippy the Diplodocus, is now on permanent display in Hintze Hall at London's Natural History Museum. Many natural history lovers will miss Dippy; however, it was a replica, while the…
Giant sunspot 75,000 miles across on Sun surface
A giant sunspot, estimated to be 75,000 across, has been detected by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which orbits Earth and has been observing the Sun for the past seven years. NASA scientists warn that this giant sunspot, called AR2665,…
Massive iceberg splits from Antarctic ice shelf
An iceberg approximately one-quarter the size of Wales has split from Antarctica. A one-billion-ton iceberg broke off from a region called Larsen C Ice Shelf between July 10 and July 12, according to scientists. Professor Adrian Luckman,…
Bacterial DNA stores movie in scientific breakthrough
Scientists have managed to replay a movie encoded in bacterial DNA for the first time. The researchers encoded the primitive film in bacterial DNA and then replayed it, in what the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) describes as a major…