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The world’s first floating wind farm is exceeding expectations and is outperforming average wind power plants based on shore by far. As a result, there are already plans to build a new version of the wind farm over a larger area and with more capacity.

It seems multinationals all over the world finally start to realise that plastic straws – huge amounts of which are used wastefully – do indeed pose a big problem, and McDonald’s is the latest to get rid of them in its restaurants.

Global carbon emissions could be cut by 3% if all countries adopted a strategy used by the UK and relied more on natural gas rather than coal.

The amount of plastic in the ocean could triple by the year 2025, according to a new report from Britain, seriously bad news considering there is already over 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic trash in the world's oceans.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) set out an aim for one billion passengers to fly on scheduled flights powered by a mix of jet fuel and biofuels by 2025.

More than 100 major cities around the world are now mostly powered by renewable energy sources, according to a newly published study. Data from 2017 showed that urban centres as disparate as Auckland in New Zealand and Oslo in Norway have become green.

The country currently gets between 35 and 40 percent of its power from coal, that’s why the decision to cut its dependence on coal-based energy production made headlines. Details are not yet known, but considering Chile’s reliance on coal, even the announcement is a big step towards a greener future.

China wants to become a world leader in forests by 2035 and said it will plant two new forests which will cover an area roughly the size of Ireland in total.