What effect will the new French “ecotax” on plane tickets have on flights, passengers and more import Read on

The world of marine transportation relies heavily on enormous ships, from cruise liners to containers to giant tankers. One thing each has in common is the use of some of the lowest-quality fuel in the world - bunker fuel - to take them from port to port. Read on

Extreme problems sometimes require extreme solutions: A new UK research unit is looking at radical solutions to climate change. Read on

The printing industry doesn't just create paper waste - it uses a whole lot of plastic too. Bulgaria-based LAM'ON have come up with a biodegradable laminating film that could help eliminate the printing industry's huge - but mostly invisible - plastic problem. Read on

Negative-emissions technologies - that remove carbon dioxide from the air and in some cases, even turn it into something new - are powerful tools in the fight against climate change. In our latest Knowledge article we look at some of the most innovative approaches. Read on

Two young American ecopreneurs are developing the world's first ever farm for growing coral on dry land - up to 50 times faster than conventional methods. Read on

Plan A is a unique online platform that uses open source data to predict where and how climate change will hit the hardest - and then uses that insight to help fund innovators who are working on effective solutions in those specific areas. Read on

Returning to a pre-industrial era before we started burning coal to try and avert climate change might sound like the stuff of dreams for some environmentalists. Now researchers in Australia have come up with a method of "undoing" emissions by turning them back into coal. Read on

Many of the inventions that we use in modern society were born from "failure", discovered accidentally, while somebody was busy trying to create something else. That's how we ended up with the microwave and penicillin. And that's also how HiperIn was created, a brand new type of material that could reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry. Read on