Mass adoption happens when a product solves a widespread problem and becomes accessible to users. Take the mobile phone ...

Water minister Emma Hardy was at Northumbrian Water's sewage treatment works in Howdon to see the progress of an “incredibly impressive” innovation designed to cut storm overflows ...

The global length of ditches is unknown, but these unassuming bodies of water play a significant role in the global climate ...

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport has today published an issues paper concerning the health impacts of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) in Australia. After ...

Food scientist testing new stuff samples of dairy products in the laboratory. Credit: Chokniti-Studio/Shutterstock. China has lifted a ban on the import of heat ...

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said he had spoken to ministers from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the definition of single malt whisky would not ...

The NFU points to figures from the Environment Department (Defra) showing that 66 per cent of farm businesses in England have a net value of more than £1 million. But the government has countered ...

Scotch whisky producers said an application by Defra for protected status for English single malt would be ‘very damaging’ for the Scottish industry. Scotch exports were worth £5.4 billion ...

Recent responses from the DEFRA minister responsible, Mary Creagh MP, are said to highlight the concern of recyclers that government “lack a grip on industry reality”. Specifically, “despite the ...

The SAF will thus build new capabilities - a suite of sensors, jammers, and weapon solutions to detect and neutralise smaller UAS, to add to existing island air defence capabilities, he added.

A Defra minister is set to step in after a Norfolk farmer was booted off a government advisory group for his "political activity" in recent tax protests. David Hill, who farms at Bradenham ...