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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.
Sunscreen SPFs not always what labels claim
Sunscreen SPFs (Sun Protection Factors) are not always what the labels claim, warns Consumer Reports, a magazine published by the Consumers Union, a United States-based non-profit organization. Researchers tested more than sixty sunscreens,…
UK solar power breaks record, generates more energy than nuclear for first time
Solar energy panels in the UK generated a record amount of energy on Friday, May 26, with output rising to 8.75GW of power, meeting almost 25 percent of British energy demand. Solar was the second most used generating technology,…
World’s largest telescope being built in Chilean desert
The world's largest optical/infrared telescope - the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) - is being built in the Chilean desert. Construction on the giant telescope, which will be about five times bigger than the…
Switzerland votes to phase out nuclear energy and shift to renewable sources instead
The Swiss have voted in favour of new rules that will see nuclear energy gradually phased out in favour of renewable energy. On Sunday there was a referendum on government plans to transition from relying on nuclear energy to renewable…
Hawking says we must colonize other planet in 100 years
Stephen Hawking says we must colonize another planet within the next 100 years, and not the next 500 or 1,000 years. The British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author, who is Director of research at Cambridge University's Centre for…
UN agricultural guidelines tackle food security in context of climate change
The United Nations (UN) have released new agricultural guidelines to help member countries make decisions about farming that are in keeping with their climate change pledges. The Paris Agreement aims to limit global temperature rise to…
The Netherlands open massive offshore wind farm
The Netherlands have recently opened a massive offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Comprising 150 wind turbines situated some 85 km (53 miles) north of the Dutch city of Groningen, Gemini wind park has a 600 MW generating capacity and is…
U.S. coal industry unlikely to make a comeback, despite Trump’s efforts, says report
A new report concludes that United States President Trump's efforts to revive the U.S. coal industry are unlikely to succeed. It urges policymakers to accept that American coal is in decline and to stop raising false hopes of a return to…
Logistics in cities of increasing interest to property developers
A new research report suggests that factors like the growth of e-commerce due to consumers' unabated passion for online shopping is transforming logistics in cities, which in turn impacts property markets. Also, the push toward green energy…
Vertical farming global market forecast to be $6.4bn by 2023
A new analysis forecasts the growing market for vertical farming - a way of producing food plants by growing them in a controlled environment in a vertically stacked system on a small farm footprint. The new report, from P&S Market…