As their popularity spreads throughout Europe, Germany has become the latest country to introduce electric scooters to its roads. Could they help solve traffic problems and make our cities cleaner and less polluted? What is their real environmental impact? Read on

A citizen science project from Stuttgart wants you to build your own air pollution sensors - helping to create a global map of particulate pollution and raise awareness for an issue which is thought to kill millions of people each year. Read on

A UK organization is calling on companies and governments to disclose their environmental statistics in a bid to help the fight against climate change. Read on

A new energy storage system - consisting of huge quantities of rocks - is being tested in the Port of Hamburg. Read on

Just like many animal and plant species, giraffes are also threatened with extinction. But a combination of big data, artificial intelligence and citizen science could help optimise efforts to protect them. Read on

Swedish startup Enjay has developed a way to clean up the catering industry's greasy carbon footprint - by capturing restaurants' dirty waste heat and turning it into usable energy. Read on

Sloths might not be the first animal that comes to mind when it comes to designing robots, but their super slow lifestyle could hold the key for the energy-efficient monitoring robots of the future. Read on

One group of ambitious European travellers want to set an example to all of the world leaders heading to the UN's Climate Change conference in Chile in December 2019 - by turning their back on the aeroplane and taking a two-month boat trip instead. Read on

On the African continent, the lack of eco-friendly transportation is being tackled by innovators who are tapping into the region's abundance of solar power. In Jacqueville, a small beach town on the Ivory Coast, the latest arrival is taxis fuelled by the power of the sun. Read on