Regular readers of this column are well aware of the wonderful benefits of EV ownership. However, electric vehicles can also have a positive impact on the electric grid, serving as the perfect...
The world’s leading suppliers of groceries, personal care products, household goods and consumer electronics are racing to adapt to sustainably-minded consumers.
That’s the verdict from environmental non-profit CDP, which has published a new...
The global effort to reduce plastic production and waste often focuses on the use of specific items – straws, single-use grocery bags – or on the challenge of recycling or how to...
Wonder-material graphene could be used to cheaply and effectively make dirty water clean.
That’s the verdict from the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester and the UK-based filter manufacturer LifeSaver,...
Don’t eat yellow snow has always been good advice. To that we can now add warnings against green, pink, orange and black snow, as new evidence of our trashing of the planet...
Mobile phones, digital cameras, handheld games and laptops are being recycled to manufacture all the medals for the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo.
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and...
The European Commission has given the green light for the French Government’s plans to support four demonstration floating offshore wind farms.
They will consist of three to four turbines – installed in the...
The Great Barrier Reef faces yet "another nail in the coffin," Dr. Simon Boxall from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton told BBC News Friday.
That is because the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park...
A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns.
According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, biodiversity in food and agriculture...
Looking at the plain, one-story wooden shacks that dot the countryside in Cuba's vuelta abajo region, one would never guess that the farmers here grow one of the island's most valuable natural...
In the ongoing dialogue surrounding water consumption and saving water, the length of your shower, how you water your yard and even your toothbrush usage probably come up. But there is another...
A recently-discovered squid protein could be used to stop microplastic fibres leaking into the environment.
A review published in Frontiers in Chemistry, conducted by scientists at Penn State University in US, suggests material...
China has closed its Everest base camp to tourists because of a buildup of trash on the world's tallest mountain.
The move comes as the Tibet Autonomous Region Sports Bureau said it had...
Global decarbonisation could turn fossil fuel-reliant economies into ‘stranded nations’ unable to unlock the value of carbon-based assets and infrastructure.
These are the findings of a new World Economic Forum study, which shows...
The European Union has agreed to reduce emissions from new trucks by 30% by 2030.
The European Parliament and the Council, which represents the 28 member states, reached a provisional agreement which ensures...
A small rodent that lived only on a single island off Australia is likely the world's first mammal to become a casualty of climate change, scientists reported in June 2016. The government...
