China launches pilot 'waste-free city' plan to boost recycling
Ten cities will be selected for the first phase, with measures to include better sorting of solid waste, improvements in urban planning and the construction of new treatment facilities
Is there a 'circular' solution to the world's food problems?
Redesigning the food industry into a so-called "circular economy" model would reduce health costs, save land and water and create new business opportunities
Climate stress drove wave of Arab Spring refugees - researchers
Severe droughts helped fuel migration and asylum requests from the Middle East and North Africa, new evidence shows
Root and branch reform: Swedish scientist makes fuel from tree waste
"We're actually using the stuff of the wood that they don't use when they make paper and pulp"
Zimbabwe seeks wiser ways to use water amid erratic rains
Farmers who rely on free rainfall struggle to buy water to irrigate crops, while Bulawayo city is mulling restrictions on use in homes
'The trash never stops': Indonesia battles to clean up rivers
Authorities are battling a lack of recycling culture or environmental awareness to achieve an ambitious target of a 70 percent cut in marine plastic debris by 2025
Prince William turns interviewer in Davos appearance with Attenborough
"We are now so numerous, so powerful, so all-pervasive…that we can actually exterminate whole ecosystems without even noticing it"
Somalis turn a profit by transforming their scrap plastic
A green business is turning plastic bags, bottles and wrappers into roof tiles and other recycled goods
China firms funding coal plants offshore as domestic curbs bite - study
Top destinations are Bangladesh, Vietnam, South Africa and Pakistan - and about a quarter of the proposed capacity would use technology no longer allowed in China
'A List' climate change firms outperform on stock market -survey
Only two percent of 6,800 firms that submitted data made the "A List" of the CDP index, with the shares of those leaders tending to outperform on stock markets