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China Makes Jaw-Dropping Cuts to Carbon Emissions in 2015 Equal to UK’s Total Output
China is on course to set a world record this year for the largest voluntary reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of any country in...
An Algae Farm Designed To Suck Up Highway Pollution
A highway overpass might seem like an unlikely place to grow algae, but actually it's ideal: Car exhaust turns out to be the perfect...
World’s Five Biggest Palm Oil Growers Agree To Moratorium on Deforestation
The five biggest palm oil growers in the world have launched and signed the Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto with a temporary moratorium against deforestation...
Bloomberg Invests $5M in Solar-powered Lamps for Africa
Today, seven out of ten people lack access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa, which means they turn toward dirty and toxic kerosene for lighting.
On...
Oslo Turns Food Waste into Fuel for Buses
A plant in Norway last week began converting household food waste into liquid biogas fuel to run the city's 135 buses. As a result,...
Algae Powered Street Lamps Suck Up C02
What if underground parking garages were lit by lamps running off the CO2 exhaust from the passing cars? French Bio-chemist Pierre Calleja invented an...
Amazing Young Designers: Oh, What You’ll Do With Recycled Plastic Bottles
A Puerto Rican design student at London's Royal College of Art has created a customized bicycle that grinds discarded plastic containers at one end...
Two Monolith Machines Suck Carbon Out of the Air in California
Peter Eisenberger, a distinguished professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, has build two machines in Menlo Park, Calif., to pull carbon...
Amazon Forest More Resilient to Climate Change Than Feared
The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts...
Start Up Company Wins $630,000 for Making Bio-Plastic Out of Greenhouse Gas
A young start-up called Mango Materials has won a Green Challenge prize of $630,000 for its plan to use bacteria to turn the most...
13-Year-old Recycles Cooking Grease into Heating Oil for Needy Families
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin of Westerly, Rhode Island discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their...
China to Spend $27 Billion on Emission Cuts, Renewables
China's central government plans to spend $27 billion (170 billion yuan) this year to promote energy conservation, emission reductions and renewable energy, the Ministry...
Today is America Recycles Day
Since 1997, communities across the country have come together on November 15 for America Recycles Day -- the only nationally recognized day dedicated to...
Greenest Skyscraper Ever Rises From World Trade Center Site
The new World Trade Center in New York currently under construction promises to be the most environmentally advanced structure ever built on such a...
UK Opens Free, Solar-powered Plug-in Vehicle Charging Network
For first time electric vehicles will be able to travel the length and breadth of Britain using the world’s first solar national charging network...
Solar Project Will Power 85,850 Homes for Los Angeles
The largest U.S. producer of crystalline solar power energy Wednesday announced plans to build a massive system to provide solar energy to tens of...
World’s Largest Solar Project Breaks Ground in California Desert
The largest solar project in the world broke ground in the Mojave desert yesterday as the first ever to be built on federal land....
Urine-Powered Fuel Cells: Pee Power to the People!
Researchers have figured out a way to make the world's first urine-powered fuel cells -- a significant feat, because most fuel cell systems today...
Japanese Man Invents Machine to Turn Plastic Back into Oil
Out of his love for the environment and concern about over-flowing landfills, Akinori Ito, from the Japanese company Blest, developed a machine capable of...
Honda Plans Electric Vehicle and Plug-In by 2012
Honda will start selling an electric vehicle as well as a plug-in hybrid by 2012 in the U.S. and Japan, joining the race to...