‘Underconsumption core’ offers an alternative to rampant consumerism. Meet the new trend of 2024 — and the TikTokers hoping it will last.

Infinite Recycled Technologies is turning big panes of glass into new products and a major New York City real estate firm is on board.

Over the course of a century, Norway’s forests have tripled in size, doubling in just the last 40 years.

Ten years after a massive pest eradication program removed all rabbits and rodents, Macquarie Island is flourishing, still pest-free.

Artists who add a special credit to songs that use the sounds of nature can channel royalties from streaming to conservation projects.

Court finds Peruvian government responsible for violating the rights of residents of the town of La Oroya to a healthy environment.

Medellín in Colombia was experiencing a severe urban heat island effect. Now, new green growth is bringing temperatures down dramatically.

Villages in a drought-plagued part of North India have been transformed by a revival of old farming practices.

Ancient California redwoods defy scientists’ expectations and sprout new shoots from blackened trunks

As restrictions on petrol-driven leaf-blowers spread across the US, neighbourhoods are getting quieter — and cleaner.

Asphalt contributes to the urban heat island effect and makes places more prone to flooding. Planners are rethinking its place in cities.

South African social enterprise collects plastic waste and transforms it into reusable items, diverting more than 10,000 kilos of waste.

In California, grazing goats offer lower costs and reduced noise and toxic chemicals compared to standard landscaping solutions.

Horticulturalist embraces guerrilla gardening, planting more than 100 unauthorised trees in south-western Sydney.

Engineers have found that almost any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air.

Low-emission zones in big cities such as London reduce air pollution, especially for poorer communities.

Rather than demolishing buildings, a nonprofit in Minnesota is deconstructing and reusing salvaged items, reducing waste to landfill.

A decade after the deadly Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh is home to nine of the world's top 10 sustainable garment factories.

Biax could help the building industry eliminate 25,000 tonnes of polystyrene from foundations each year — a lot for a lightweight material.

Flinders Island, just off Tasmania, has a waste problem and locals in one town are doing their own glass recycling, one bottle at a time.