Last week the South Korean National Assembly passed legislation to start a cap-and-trade system by 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase renewable energy.

Indirect land use change, or ILUC, dictates that the conversion of land into farms for biofuel crops must account for its carbon emissions-and the policy is dividing the EU.

For the first time since 1970, Japan became completely nuclear free yesterday with the shutdown of the Tomari nuclear reactor on the island of Hokkaido.

Daniel Martin Ferraro is an architect in Madrid who wants to transform our notion of solar panels. His hexagon-shaped FreeForm solar skins are both functional and elegant.

The demand in China for pork, an important protein in the Chinese diet, results in 1.5 million tons of pig waste annually.

Drive around Doha at night and you would think the city was working 24 hours a day. But buildings often insist all lights are kept on all night.

Fox News is at it again. Could wind farms possibly contribute to global warming? Perhaps at the earth’s surface. One study in west Texas has found some interesting conclusions.

SolarCity, the California-based installation giant, revealed yesterday it started filing documents with the SEC for its IPO. Could solar be turning a corner after all?