A company in Chile has developed a bag that dissolves in water within five minutes. Could this mean the end of the billions of plastic packages that end up in our seas every year? Read on

Europe's latest pollution spotting satellite can highlight a wide range of pollutants in the atmosphere, and track where they came from. Read on

The project, consisting of a large floating pipe, aims to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Read on

Jupiter uses predictive cloud computing models to inform business owners how climate change will affect their operations in the future. Read on

A startup from Spain wants to use a cryptocoin to democratise emissions trading and give consumers the opportunity to offset their CO2 emissions. Read on

At Web Summit, journalists, activists and innovators gathered to start a conversation about how they might hold the key to solving the climate crisis. Read on

A climate startup has partnered with Reykjavik Energy to develop the world’s first ‘negative emission’ power plant, and it’s already online. Read on

Carbon capture plants - that filter carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere - could help provide the solution to the world's growing CO2 problem. In Switzerland, Climeworks has inaugurated the first ever commercial plant of this type - a tower of giant air filters located just outside Zurich. Read on

The future looks bright for e-mobility. But electric vehicles aren't the only alternative to traditional combustion engines. What are the other options? And how do they shape up? We talked it over with Michael Müller-Görnert from VCD, Germany's leading ecological transport association. Read on