Australia's third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs - and set a blueprint for the rest of the country
Three-quarters of UK construction companies now operate a low carbon or carbon reduction strategy, a new survey has shown.
Colombian architect Oscar Mendez is building a house with blocks and cuboids made of discarded plastics. Now the invention has started to benefit thousands of homeless.
According to a new electro-mobility roadmap study, Singapore could achieve its goal of 50 percent electric vehicles by 2050 with the right policies in place.
WGBC has launched a groundbreaking project that will ensure all buildings are ‘net zero’ by 2050, in its bid to help deliver on the promise of the Paris Agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
We truly are living in the most exciting time to be alive. The truth is, driven by advances in exponential technologies, things are getting much better around the world at an accelerating rate.
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the "first fingerprints of healing" of the Antarctic ozone layer, published today in the journal Science. September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.
San Franciscans, bid adieu to Styrofoam. On Tuesday, the city unanimously passed an ordinance banning the sale of any product made from polystyrene. Come 2017, selling any polystyrene product will be prohibited.
Researchers have found a way to culture cells in a lab and produce leather that's biologically identical to that made from animal skin.
The egg-shaped plane, called Lilium, has been heralded as high up as the European Space Agency. The plane, designed by four German engineers, takes off and lands vertically, meaning it can use helipads.
Unlike a conventional cremation, the process does not release carbon dioxide or other pollutants into the atmosphere.
Of the 15 nations to fully ratify the Paris climate agreement on the day it was signed in April 2016, 13 were tropical island states.
Bangladeshi city Rajshahi took steps like planting trees and introducing battery-powered rickshaws to dramatically cut air pollution.
Scania truck first to drive two-kilometre "e-highway" on the E16 motorway in Sweden in major step towards sustainable transport.
