Sustainability in scientific research is becoming an ever more pressing issue. While investing in energy-efficient equipment is a significant step forward, true sustainability in the laboratory ...

“It is in our very nature as scientists that we want to understand life, molecules, materials, physical principles, and its laws of nature- however by our action we are not only harming ourselves but ...

The University of Bristol has become the first institution globally to certify all of its laboratories at Silver level through the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF)—a landmark ...

The article, “Greening the lab”, written by Caroline Seydel, calls for a change, requesting that research culture become more sustainable particularly in the fields of molecular biology. For example, ...

With so much research focused on creating technologies that reduce our collective carbon footprint, the embarrassing realization that research labs themselves are some of the worst environmental ...