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Very soon, the UK will be home to the world’s largest wind farm. The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced that DONG Energy is building a 1,386 megawatt wind farm called Hornsea Project...

The cost of keeping a growing child clothed is oftentimes staggering, which is why this expanding origami-inspired range of children’s clothing was awarded this year's UK James Dyson award...

After Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas last weekend, you probably didn’t think the situation could get any worse. Sadly, it did. On Tuesday, ExxonMobil acknowledged that two of its refineries were damaged during...

Mineral Carbonation International wants to transform Carbon dioxide emissions into useful building materials. The Australian firm just unveiled a pilot plant at the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources that will attempt...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be converted into a useful building material in a project from Australian firm Mineral Carbonation International (MCi)...

Good news for Chinese consumers. This week, General Motors will start selling a tiny electric car which, after national and local electric vehicle incentives, costs just $5,300. From front to end, the Baojun E100 measures...

A trio of California communities are standing up to fossil fuel peddlers and holding them to account for their role in climate change. San Mateo and Marin counties and Imperial Beach filed an unprecedented suit against 37...

Riding a bike is good for your health and the environment - so you'd think governments would go out of their way to encourage cyclists, right? Wrong. Oregon — a state known for its avid bicycling culture - just approved...

A gargantuan iceberg is set to break away from an Antarctic ice shelf within days — or even hours. Initially discovered by UK researchers in 2010, the nascent iceberg has been rapidly calving since 2016. Once the crack...

A gargantuan iceberg is set to break away from an Antarctic ice shelf within days — or even hours. Initially discovered by UK researchers in 2010, the nascent iceberg has been rapidly calving since 2016. Once the crack...

Who says there's no such thing as second chances? An historically off-putting landfill in Brockton, Massachusetts, which was once dubbed Mount Trashmore for its overwhelming bad odor, has been transformed from a wasted space...

The year 2020 could be a huge turning point for our planet. If we don't stop our carbon emissions from continuing to rise by that date, according to an April report from multiple institutions, we likely won't be able to meet...

Sweden just took a huge step to become even greener than they already are. Their parliament just passed a law - 254 to 41 votes - to slash carbon emissions all the way down to zero by 2045. The move makes them the first country...

U.S. President Donald Trump may believe coal is the future, but newly-released statistics by BP Statistical Review of Energy state otherwise. According to the data, global coal production fell by an astonishing 6.2 percent...

The science is in on climate change - it's real and hurting Earth right now. But not all Americans are aware of the threat, according to former NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan. She said the country's citizens are "under...