Saharan sun could provide energy for UK homes in £8bn plan to build 100 sq km solar farm - and a very long power cable 21/10/2014

Up to 2.5 million British homes could be powered by Tunisian sunshine by 2018 under an £8bn plan to build a giant solar farm in the Sahara desert and ship the electricity to Europe through a 450km (280 miles) submarine cable. ...more

Bosco Verticale is Italian for dope urban treehouse 21/10/2014

This just in: We no longer have to choose between living in the city or the forest. A pair of new towers in Milan, Italy, proves that we can have it both ways. ...more

Warming Earth heading for hottest year on record 21/10/2014

Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say. ...more

First plant in Morocco solar mega-project to open in 2015 20/10/2014

Morocco's first solar energy plant will begin operating in 2015, an official said Sunday, as part of a multi-billion-euro project the oil-scarce kingdom hopes will satisfy its growing energy needs. ...more

Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals 20/10/2014

The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has accelerated rapidly in the past two months, underscoring the shortcomings of the government’s environmental policies. ...more

Volvo: Environment Prize winner uses satellites to reveal human impact 20/10/2014

The 2014 winner of the Volvo Environment Prize, Professor Eric Lambin, is a remote sensing pioneer using advanced data collection and satellite images to understand land use and the influence of humans on the planet. ...more

California’s plastic-bag ban highlights environmental harm 20/10/2014

California made big news recently when it announced the first statewide ban on plastic shopping bags set to kick in during the middle of 2015. ...more

Can cigarettes be used for the GOOD of the planet? Discarded ashes remove arsenic from drinking water, scientists claim 20/10/2014

Discarded cigarette waste may be a blight on our streets, but researchers are hoping they could someday repurpose it into something useful. ...more

Need to work on clean, safe environment: Shaikh Mohammed 17/10/2014

His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has approved a proposal to set up a nationwide air quality network that will monitor standardized environmental data gathered from across the country. ...more

10,000 new seeds added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault to safeguard against climate change 17/10/2014

As climate change becomes a very real global problem, scientists are stocking up the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a collection of crop seeds from around the world intended for what’s been nicknamed as “doomsday.” ...more