Many national governments lack the tools, or will, to accurately assess their reforestation efforts. CTrees is a platform aiming to provide transparency and accountability.

Until now, the development of AI-based technologies for recognising text and speech has been in the hands of large technology companies. BLOOM aims to make this more transparent.

Could specially engineered enzymes soon be used to break down our mountains of plastic waste?

The EIBA project is developing an AI that identifies end-of-life parts to help reuse products instead of merely recycling them.

The ability for machine learning algorithms to analyse huge amounts of information are making them indispensable tools for conservation research.

For many people, tossing garbage into the bin marks the end of their relationship with it. It has now become someone else's responsibility and - if it has not been disposed of properly - someone else’s problem.

Artificial intelligence has long since solved complex tasks and made our everyday lives easier. But do intelligent computer programmes also provide new solutions for environmental and climate protection?

The manufacturer of graphics cards wants to use its know-how to recreate the Earth in a digital simulation on a unprecedented one metre scale.

While some manufacturers are going big, others are looking to small, self-sustaining microfactories as a more sustainable way to build things.