Prior to founding Galway Green Labs, Dr Una FitzGerald found she was contributing to the disposal of large volumes of laboratory plastics on a daily basis.
From sermons about climate justice to carbon-neutral church halls and eco-friendly initiatives like recycling candles, a growing number of churches are going green.
After 30 years, Ktunaxa First Nation, with help from the Canadian government and Patagonia, finally shut down the Jumbo Glacier ski resort development.
China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner said on Sunday, as it seeks to tackle one of the country's biggest environmental problems.
With sea level rise already lapping at its door, the city of Miami made its first significant commitment to address the root cause of climate change, not just the symptoms.
Being tailed by a whale across a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean put the task facing the all-female crew of a round-the-world plastic pollution mission in perspective.
A swath of land in the Everglades at the center of a fight between a family determined to drill those urging them not to might finally have a new future.
An unprecedented 28 major coastal restoration and flood protection projects, with a total construction value of $1.97 billion, will be put out to public bid.
Clean energy investment in the United States surged to a fresh record of $55.5 billion last year, despite the government's attempts to roll back supportive policies, a report showed on Thursday.
