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Technology · OceanAbout The Ocean CleanupConfiance Communications
Confiance’s India brief for The Ocean Cleanup shows how ocean-cleanup hardware needs local narrative craft as much as interceptors.
EU green-claims rulesAbout Torque Agency GroupWylde Connections
Torque and Wylde’s public tie-up mirrors a market correction — claims and diagnostics must ship together or not at all.
PressEU green-claims rulesAbout Torque Agency GroupWylde Connections
A UK automotive comms shop pairs with a sustainability consultancy so claims and evidence arrive in the same sentence.
Materials science · Low carbon industryAbout Carbon Clean Solutions
Conventional carbon capture plants are dominated by absorber and stripper columns that can tower dozens of metres high and take years to build.
Transportation and logistics · Biofuels
Most sustainable aviation fuel today is made from used cooking oil and animal fats, and there is not enough of either to fly the world. LanzaJet starts from ethanol instead, a liquid that can be made from crops, farm waste, municipal rubbish or even captured industrial gases.
Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation
Gaseous hydrogen tanks are heavy and bulky, which limits how far a hydrogen aircraft can fly. Liquid hydrogen, chilled to cryogenic temperatures, stores far more energy in a lighter tank, but nobody had flown a piloted fuel cell aircraft on it.
Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software
When a bank lends against a warehouse in Houston or a hotel on the Spanish coast, it prices credit risk and market risk in great detail, but until recently it had little hard data on how floods, heat or wildfire might wipe out the value of the collateral.
Eco-restoration · Eco-acoustics
Harbour porpoises are small, shy and almost impossible to count from a boat, especially at night or in rough seas. Yet European law requires countries to know where they are and protect them.
Eco-restoration · Eco-acoustics
Food companies are being asked to prove that their farms are good for nature, yet very few farms measure biodiversity at all, because hiring an ecologist is expensive.
Eco-restoration · Eco-acoustics
For years, ecologists who wanted to record bats, birds or frogs in the field needed recorders costing around a thousand dollars each, which limited most studies to a handful of sites.
Eco-restoration · Eco-acoustics
In a dense rainforest, a ranger standing a few hundred metres from a chainsaw may never hear it. By the time satellites spot the clearing, the trees are gone.
Eco-restoration · Eco-acoustics
Before 2007, ecologists who wanted to leave a recorder in the forest had to build their own from parts, waterproof it and hope it worked.
Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management
Small pumps lift seawater from under the winter ice and spread it on top, where it freezes fast. The goal is thicker, brighter ice that survives longer into summer and keeps reflecting sunlight. It is one of the most watched, and most criticised, sunlight reflection experiments in the world.
Planetary engineering · Space frontiers
Telling satellites to de-orbit themselves only works if they still function. For the ones that fail, someone has to go up and fetch them. Astroscale flew ELSA-d to prove a servicer could find and grab a satellite in orbit, and its UK subsidiary is now building ELSA-M to remove a real, retired OneWeb satellite.
Planetary engineering · Space frontiers
A small spacecraft that rides a rocket, then carries customers' satellites to separate orbital slots, tests new hardware in space and, at the end of its life, empties its tanks and drifts down to burn up. D-Orbit has now flown 26 commercial ION missions.
Planetary engineering · Space frontiers
Most space debris is tracked from the ground, by radars and telescopes limited by weather, daylight and geography. Bengaluru start-up Digantara launched SCOT, a satellite that watches other objects from orbit, and now sells collision warnings to governments. It is also moving fast into missile tracking.
Planetary engineering · Space frontiers
Hall-effect thrusters used to be the size of a fridge and need kilowatts of power. Exotrail shrank the technology for small satellites, giving them the ability to change orbit, avoid collisions and de-orbit at the end of their lives. It first flew on an Indian rocket in 2020 and now sells to satellite makers in Europe and India.
Advanced technology · Deep space exploration
In April 2026, four astronauts flew farther from Earth than any humans before them. The capsule they rode in was American, but the module that pushed them to the Moon and supplied their air, water and power was built by Airbus in Bremen for the European Space Agency. It is Europe's biggest piece of flight hardware in human deep space exploration.
Advanced technology · Deep space exploration
In March 2025, a lander built by Texas company Firefly Aerospace settled gently onto the Moon and ran ten NASA experiments for two weeks, from drilling into the soil to tracking Europe's Galileo navigation signals from the lunar surface. Blue Ghost showed that a private company can deliver science to the Moon reliably. Firefly is now building landers for the far side and the Gruithuisen Domes.
Advanced technology · Deep space exploration
When Chandrayaan-3 lifted off for the Moon in July 2023, the engines in its rocket's core stage and the thrust chamber of its cryogenic upper stage had been made in a Mumbai suburb better known for locks and steel cupboards. Godrej Aerospace has supplied ISRO for decades and has now delivered the first human-rated engine for India's crewed Gaganyaan programme.
Advanced technology · Deep space exploration
In 2022, NASA's DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into a small asteroid moon to nudge its orbit. Europe's Hera, built by OHB in Bremen, has now travelled two years to the scene to measure exactly what happened. Its findings will help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable way to protect Earth.
Advanced technology · Deep space exploration
Only American spacecraft can currently bring cargo back from the International Space Station. The Exploration Company, a five-year-old European start-up, is building Nyx, a reusable capsule designed to carry three tonnes of cargo up and back. In September 2026 ESA backed it with a €760 million contract.
Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering
The Southern Ocean absorbs a huge share of humanity's carbon dioxide, yet in winter almost nobody goes there to measure it. On 20 September 2026, a seven-metre orange robot sailboat left Hobart on a 22,000 km voyage around Antarctica. It is the first of four Saildrone Explorers that will circle the continent for five years, filling one of climate science's biggest data gaps.
