Hundreds of swimmers took part Sunday in Hong Kong's iconic harbour race, which had been suspended for 33 years until water pollution could be cleaned up. Hong Kong has been engaged in a major effort to restore the beautiful port.
This simple machine can turn your leftovers and yard waste into liquid fertilizer or clean cooking gas to use in a stove.
Thousands of people planted 647,250 in a single day across Ecuador. It's the second environmental world record snatched by the South American nation.
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is a city landmark teeming with tourists, restaurants and — until recently — floating trash. A citizen who walked by every day and saw floating trash in the water came up with an ingenious solution -- and the city agreed.
You've heard about folks donating hair to make wigs for cancer patients, but did you know you can donate beard hair to help clean up oil spills?
At least 16 Amur leopard cubs have been spotted in a Russian National Park just nine years after the species dropped to just 30 cats in the wild.
This innovative six-pack ring, made from beer by-products, will not be choking any animals or leaving plastic to pile up in the environment.
This ingenious win-win idea is boosting bee populations while warding off elephants from invading small farmers' land.
Independently confirmed: China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working.
This cereal company is working with its oat growers to set aside the equivalent of 3,000 football fields as natural habitat for honey bees.
Community activists in Peru have succeeded in shutting down the creation of a $5 billion open-caste mine near a pristine lake–thanks to a gutsy poor farmer.
Scientists have found a faster, cheaper way of making biofuels by simply using sunlight and reversing the process of photosynthesis.
Demand for Tesla Motors' first affordable electric car has stunned the company, with more than a quarter million people in two days vying for the new model.
It's not every day that a 13-year-old boy gets a chance to address the United Nations General Assembly. But Felix Finkbeiner is no ordinary teenager. Finkbeiner had one item on his agenda: taking adults to task for their lack of action on planting trees.
These two civil engineers are rebuilding their Palestinian home with Greencake; low-cost bricks made out of the very ash filling the city.
This new super-sponge could prevent thousands of heart attacks, asthma attacks, and premature deaths caused by mercury contamination every year.
This New Zealand brewing company has invented a way to save receding beaches worldwide by having a cold one with your buddies.
The Governor of Hawaii has just signed two bills that outline strategies to help meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord.
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Saudi Arabia is about to step down as one of the world's top crude oil exporters with the launch of this sustainable energy plan.
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