Day: 4 June 2025

Getty Images Awards $20,000 to Global Storytellers Reshaping Disability Representation

Stuart Mitchell

Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, in partnership with the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA), today announced the recipients of their latest $20,000 creative grant aimed at advancing authentic representation of the disability community in professional settings. According to Getty Images’ VisualGPS research, 71% of global consumers want to see people with disabilities represented in everyday social and professional settings. Yet currently, the majority of visuals – 3 out of 4 – depict people with disabilities primarily in healthcare environments. This highlights a meaningful opportunity to…

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Scientist Whose Biological Seed Treatments Helped Make Brazil A Global Breadbasket Named 2025 World Food Prize Laureate

Stuart Mitchell

Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the new World Food Prize Laureate $500,000 award for her work to harness biological processes to sustainably improve crop nutrition, yields and productivity. A scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate. Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are…

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New GRECO project on greener and safer bioplastics for food packaging

Stuart Mitchell

The new Horizon Europe-funded GRECO project provides innovative biobased, biodegradable and recyclable food packaging based on novel PLA copolymers, functional coatings, additives and green catalysts. GRECO aims to demonstrate the life cycle and techno-economic feasibility of greener and safer bioplastics value chains for the food packaging sector, based on a safe and sustainable-by-design strategy.   The GRECO project kick-off will take place in Valencia, at AIMPLAS, on 16-17 June 2025. European Bioplastics and its members, including TotalEnergies Corbion, AIMPLAS, and INNOTECH COEXPAN-EMSUR, are among the 22 partners that have joined forces…

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Trixeo Aerosphere approved in the UK as first inhaled respiratory medicine using next-generation propellant with near-zero Global Warming Potential

Stuart Mitchell

AstraZeneca’s Trixeo Aerosphere (budesonide/glycopyrronium/formoterol fumarate or BGF), already licensed for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adults, has now been approved for use in the UK with an innovative, next-generation propellant with near-zero Global Warming Potential (GWP). This is the first medicine delivered by a pressurised metered-dose inhaler (pMDI) approved with the propellant that has 99.9% lower GWP than propellants used in currently available pMDIs. Trixeo with the next-generation propellant will have a low carbon footprint, comparable to inhaled medicines that do not require a propellant. Trixeo,…

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Marston’s partners with Two Blues Solar on major solar rollout across 120 of its pub rooftops

Stuart Mitchell

Marston’s has partnered with renewable energy solutions provider Two Blues Solar and installer Nuvolt to deploy solar across 120 of the Group’s community-based pubs over the next 12 months. The £5.4m investment, fully financed by Atrato Onsite Energy, operates through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), a long-term contract in which Marston’s purchases 100% of the renewable energy generated on its roofs rather than owning the solar equipment. This arrangement guarantees certainty of energy prices for 25 years, protecting Marston’s from market volatility whilst delivering immediate cost savings for the Group.…

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