Angeli Mehta

United Kingdom

Freelance Science Writer at Freelance

Former BBC producer/director who has gone back to her first love of science. Now doing science writing and science engagement

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Articles

Sustainable Switch: Climate Focus - Swiss village destroyed by glacier collapse

1 week ago | tradingview.com | Sharon Kimathi |Gavin Maguire |Neil Ford |Angeli Mehta

Energy and ESG Editor, Reuters DigitalToday’s newsletter focuses on extreme weather events, including a glacier collapse in a Swiss village and wildfires in Manitoba, Canada. These come as a U.N. report warns of rising global temperatures over the next five years, with Arctic warming predicted at more than three times the global average.
Meet the green technologies set to transform the geopolitics of steelmaking

1 week ago | reuters.com | Angeli Mehta

Boston Metal has attracted over $280 million in funding for its molten oxide electrolysis process.
Analysis reveals ethnic minority applicants’ grant success rates still lower

2 months ago | chemistryworld.com | Angeli Mehta

A new analysis of who gets funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has found that ethnic minority researchers don’t get the same level of funding as white researchers. Their odds of success are 32% lower and when they are successful, they apply for – and receive – less funding than their white counterparts. Moreover, applications from ethnic minority researchers are ‘disproportionately’ assessed as not fundable.
Green light for UK carbon capture projects - but will they deliver?

Mar 7, 2025 | chemistryworld.com | Angeli Mehta

The UK’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects have been given the go-ahead. However, questions are being asked about their value for money and how quickly the next projects will be rolled out. After more than 15 years of cancellations and delays by successive governments, contracts for the first projects were signed in December.
Pay increase for UKRI-funded PhD students is biggest since 2003

Feb 5, 2025 | chemistryworld.com | Angeli Mehta

Doctoral students funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will see their annual stipend increase by 8% from October. UKRI says it’s the largest real terms uplift since 2003 and comes alongside changes to widen access and provide better support to students, including those who are disabled. Students will be able to take up to 28 weeks medical leave and it will be easier for those who do to get an extension to their studentship.
‘Chemistry will no longer be an exclusive club’: how AI is changing Omar Yaghi’s work

Feb 3, 2025 | flipboard.com | Angeli Mehta

6 hours agoWe’ve been off to a light start in 2025 in terms of Apple products, with the main announcement this year being the new Black Unity Sport Loop. However, we’re approaching the spring time, and Apple has five relatively major products in the pipeline. iPhone SE 4 Perhaps the biggest announcement for the …
‘Chemistry will no longer be an exclusive club’: how AI is changing Omar Yaghi’s work

Feb 3, 2025 | chemistryworld.com | Angeli Mehta

Reticular chemistry pioneer Omar Yaghi has co-founded a new institute focused on using AI to tackle climate challenges. He spoke to Chemistry World about what the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet at the University of California, Berkeley aims to achieve and how AI will change the way we do chemistry. Source: © UC Berkeley Media Relations Why is AI so attractive to reticular chemists? AI has a transformative role.
Analysis: Post-Davos, will companies redouble sustainability efforts - or heed Donald Trump? | Reuters

Jan 28, 2025 | reuters.com | Angeli Mehta

President Trump’s first policy announcements had cast a long shadow over proceedings in Davos, even before he addressed the World Economic Forum virtually and invited business to come and make their products in America or face tariffs.
Skills to succeed in the future chemical sciences workforce

Jan 13, 2025 | edu.rsc.org | Angeli Mehta

Chemistry students need a new set of skills to impress employers – from report writing to presenting, and digital know-how to critical thinking Source: © Cravetiger/Getty Images First, the good news: the world wants more chemists. But the kind of chemists needed by employers is changing.
How carbon finance is seeding new hope for northern forests | Reuters

Dec 20, 2024 | reuters.com | Angeli Mehta

Toilet paper and biomass pellets are emblematic of the fight to save northern forests – and prevent some the planet’s more important biodiversity from going down the toilet (or up in smoke). While much of the focus on deforestation is on the world’s tropical forests, the degradation of boreal and temperate forests continues apace, threatening their ability to store carbon and destroying ecosystems.