The US is set to break ground on its largest offshore wind operation yet in a move that some say will pave the way in bringing a long-neglected source of renewable energy to America's power grid.
The highest court in Germany has ruled that cities can ban older diesel vehicles immediately, paving the way for swift action against air pollution.
Nine cities in Africa — Accra, Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, Lagos, Dakar, Durban, Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Cape Town — aim to reach zero carbon by 2050.
University of Toronto engineering team designs most efficient and stable process for converting climate-warming carbon dioxide into a key chemical building block.
Amazon has made a deal with Lennar, a big American homebuilder, to build "Alexa-enabled smart homes".
National Geographic is launching of Plastic or Planet initiative. It will be a long-term, multi-year commitment.
Iceland has today become the first UK supermarket to highlight which of its own-label products are plastic free. It will do this using the Plastic Free Trust Mark – the world’s first accreditation for plastic-free packaging.
The nation’s parliament recently adopted new legislation that will require all vessels, ships, and liners entering their iconic fjords to produce zero carbon emissions.
Hawaii’s legislature passed two bills setting out the most ambitious climate goal of any US state. The bill will create a task force that sets out a plan to make the state carbon neutral “no later than 2045.”
An inexpensive method follows nature’s lead in our use of a water-based membrane that incorporates natural enzymes to capture 90 percent of carbon dioxide released.
Costa Rica would start carrying out a plan to stop the use of fossil fuels in transportation by 2021. The country generates over 99 percent of its electricity via renewable sources.
France was the first country to pass a law that prevented throwing away food that neared expiration. Now they’re having a same approach to the textile industry that prohibits throwing away unsold clothes.
For over 130 years, aluminum has been produced in the same dirty, greenhouse gas-releasing way. Now Apple is investing $10 million in a carbon-free aluminum smelting process.
Starting in 2020, all new homes in California will be required to incorporate advanced efficiency measures and rooftop solar — in an historic development for clean energy in the state.
By draping black, carbon-dipped paper in a triangular shape and using it to both absorb and vaporize water, researchers have developed a method for using sunlight to generate clean water with near-perfect efficiency.
