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After Lützerath in Germany was emptied of its residents to make way for the Garzweiler coalmine, protesters occupied the deserted village while waiting for a showdown with the police...

Calls for construction on Museum of the 20th Century to be halted until energy efficiency issues addressed

See Monster, on a decommissioned North Sea gas platform, is one of the UK’s biggest ever public art works

Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable

An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come

Smart, low-carbon homes were once the preserve of one-off grand designs – now there are up to 30,000 projects in the pipeline

When is a meme worth $600,000? When technology has created a ‘unique’ version that can’t be owned by anyone else

The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments...

Practice Architecture’s house is built from the plant growing in the fields around it. The project addresses a vital issue – the energy consumed and carbon emitted during construction

Practice Architecture’s house is built from the plant growing in the fields around it. The project addresses a vital issue – the energy consumed and carbon emitted during construction

Street of 105 homes hailed as high-quality architecture in its most environmentally and socially conscious form

Should we stop building airports? Return to mud and thatch? The climate crisis is an opportunity for creative thinking, but the values of architecture need a radical overhaul

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 forced the evacuation of nearby Pripyat, home to 45,000 people. David McMillan has journeyed there 21 times since to record abandoned homes and buildings as they are reclaimed by nature

The nuclear disaster site is being marketed as a tourist destination with novelty gas masks, radioactive ice cream and - now - a multimedia art show with the military

Photographer Josué Rivas spent seven months documenting the Native American community that came together to protest against the controversial Dakota pipeline...