Wind turbine blades have a finite lifespan and are hard to recycle, researchers at KTU think they have the solution.
Wind turbine blades have a finite lifespan and are hard to recycle, researchers at KTU think they have the solution.
We need to stop filling rivers and oceans with more trash, but also to clean up the rubbish already there.
We are running out of lithium fast, and future batteries could have a lot more in common with milk and kitchen foil.
Technology has made many buildings less climate-friendly, but we can look back in time for simple solutions.
Popular Science publishes a list of the 100 greatest innovations of the year, and we've pulled out the 16 most sustainable.
It sounds like alchemy for the climate-crisis age, but researchers have been successful at turning glucose into olefins.
Coffee farming is highly resource intensive and leads to deforestation, but there are solutions to that. Could lab grown coffee be a viable option?
Sucking all of the excess carbon out of the air seems like a simple and wonderful solution, but it's not that easy at all.
Sensor equipped trees can gather huge amounts of data, and they are taking to Twitter to share it with the world.
Tallinn has big plans for hydrogen powered buses in the city, as part of the commitment to make public transport emission free by 2035.
Our earthshine is getting dimmer, and the bad news is that it is a potentially a very bad thing for climate change.
As the electric car industry demands more rare minerals for battery production, this is why we shouldn't mine them from the seabed.
As the race to get tourists into space gets hotter, is anyone actually paying attention to the potential climate effects of the industry.
As the world demand for batteries grows, we need to use better ways to recover the precious metals used to make them.
White surfaces have a cooling effect on the planet, and painting buildings with whiter-than-white paint cools them dramatically.
The new documentary explores how human activity has pushed Earth beyond the boundaries that have kept it stable for 10,000 years.
Trees, crops and organic waste can be transformed into plastics used to make everything from rubbish bags to plane wings.
A new study shows that large amounts of ocean microplastics are being emitted in to the atmosphere.
Numbers can be hard to visualise. These charts make the recent huge rise in greenhouse gases worryingly clear.
The humble spinach plant, together with some smart nanotech and an infared camera, can detect environmental changes (and explosives).
As demand for biofuels increases, research shows that giant kelp could offer a far more sustainable option than soybeans or corn.
2021 marks the official start of what could be a pivotal decade for the worlds’ oceans, with a massive UN backed program.
How to take the humble window, combine it with a bit of clever nanotechnology, and hugely reduce the need for energy munching air conditioning.
A new study shows that the amount of plastic consumed by marine fish is huge and continuing to increase rapidly.
After China took decisive action to end illegal CFC production the ozone layer has got back to slowly healing.
As extreme weather and natural disasters increase across the world due to climate change, how much should we rely on high-tech networks?
Tesla just bought $1.5 billon or Bitcoin, pushing it's value to a new record high, but it also has a huge environmental cost.
The Baltics love bees, but how much do we really understand them? New research is trying to understand animal sentience.
As the Baltics are covered in snow and ice, could we replace harmful road salts using antifreeze compounds naturally produced by fish