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A biotech startup is researching building materials that could revolutionise construction. Not only are they biodegradable – some also absorb toxins

Further steps have been taken to clean up beaches and seas in 2019 – but much more needs to be done

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. Some days you may feel like you’re the only one concerned with what is happening to the planet. But there are a host of scientists,...

Experts horrified at large-scale forest removal to meet wood pellet demand

Green groups say 52% vote against federal government facility should rule out region as potential site

Many Americans attend ugly Christmas sweater parties. But in Britain, there’s even an annual Christmas Jumper [another term for “sweater”] Day that fuels the trade in hideous holiday garb. Now, research by the environmental...

Greenpeace calls for fresh monitoring of region where nuclear disaster occurred

Party wants UK workers to take advantage of opportunities in a global green economy worth £3tn

When she's not slinging brews behind a Bushwick bar, designer Lorelei Christensen is scouring some of New York City's darkest corners looking for debris that she can transform into shiny little pieces of eco-jewelry...

Retailer’s fleets will use carbon neutral renewable biomethane

Retailer will use renewable biomethane, supplied by CNG Fuels, from 2021

Whatever the result, the communities on SA’s Eyre peninsula are split over the issue – and will be for some time

Exhibitions of art can, and perhaps should, be thought-provoking, which is exactly the goal of the temporary showing ‘Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink’ by design studio PriestmanGoode at the Design Museum in London....

The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit dedicated to eliminating plastic pollution in the oceans, recently announced its first success. After years of trials that left its engineers scratching their heads over design challenges,...

As the services available at salons evolve, waste, pollution and exposure to toxins have increasingly become part of the experience. When one considers that the beauty industry creates 420,000 pounds of waste every day in...