As society moves away from fossil fuels, we will need more radical new technologies for storing energy to support renewable electricity generation.

Plastic “bags for life” should be banned or raised in price, campaigners say, as new figures reveal a surge in the bags is fuelling a rise in the plastic packaging footprint of leading supermarkets. Despite high profile promises by the country’s best known supermarkets to tackle the amount of plastic waste they create, their plastic footprint continues to rise, according to research from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Greenpeace.

Recycled aluminum is coming for your water and your iPad. Making products out of used aluminum is now a way for companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Apple to show a commitment to greening their manufacturing. Customers are supposed to be able to sleep a little better at night knowing that the shiny thing they bought did some good for the planet. But is aluminum’s future as bright as the hype suggests?

India's biggest online retailer is giving itself less than two years to stop using single-use plastic when shipping its products. Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce company owned by Walmart, said Thursday it would eliminate single-use plastic in packaging by March 2021. It also committed to "move towards 100% recycled plastic consumption" in its supply chain by the same date.

Windmills and solar panels may soon be keeping the lights on in the reptile house, and throughout the Detroit Zoo. The zoo, located in Detroit's suburb of Royal Oak, says it's shifting to being powered entirely by renewable energy.

Battery-electric price parity with internal combustion engines will be the tipping point that brings broad market acceptance for the emerging technology -- and that tipping point is closer than it may appear, said Reinhard Fischer, senior vice president for Volkswagen Group who heads strategy for VW brand in North America.

A warning from climate change experts that the UK needs to quickly plant a lot more trees has prompted readers to ask how they can help. At best we need to more than double the amount of trees we plant to achieve our carbon reduction targets, experts have said. Here are some of the things our readers wanted to know about tree planting.

Plastic is made from non-renewable fossil fuel (oil). In general, the pollution generated from plastic manufacturing harms and kills a wide range of marine life. However, more specifically, straws made from plastic add to this pollution, leading to irrevocable environmental damage.

This is a 70ft tug-style boat and I’ve lived on it for the past six years. The furniture is antique, campaign style mainly. Everything is solid oak and I hand-finished the floor. I like my desk area; I can sit there with the side door open and read and write songs.

Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW reach deal with California regulators on fuel-efficiency standards.

Soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have announced they are cutting ties with a trade association representing the plastic industry over concerns their memberships contradict a commitment to reducing waste. The two companies said they are to leave the Plastics Industry Association as they seek to dramatically reduce single-use plastics in their products and packaging.

Wetherspoons has become the first large business to stop using receipts after customers complained of mess and the waste of paper.

Recomposition turns deceased bodies into compost — and Washington State just legalized it.

I’ve never spent $18,000 on technology before. Heck, I’ve never even bought a car priced quite that high. But when I ran the numbers on solar panels earlier this year, I realized that for me — and maybe for you, if you live in the US — now is the right time.

Pick n Pay is trialling a 'nude' fruit and vegetable produce wall - a dedicated plastic and packaging-free zone - in 13 stores across the country to measure customers' readiness to switch from pre-packaged food to loose products.

Bali has banned the use of single-use plastic items in a bid to cut down on ocean pollution. The law prohibiting plastic bags, straws and Styrofoam has come into effect as of July 2, after a six-month transition period that ended last month. The Indonesian government has ambitious goals for the policy, hoping to achieve a 70 percent decrease in Bali’s plastic marine waste within a year.

Dutch company Lightyear has debuted a prototype solar electric car that can travel 450 miles on a single charge. But it's not cheap.

If you don’t clean your recycling, it can harm more than it helps. And that icon with the arrows is virtually meaningless

A plastic bag ban comes into force in Tanzania on Saturday, as Africa leads efforts to stem the tide of plastic blighting the farthest reaches of the globe, and depths of the ocean. Tanzania is banning the importation, production, sale and use of plastic bags, becoming the 34th African country to implement such restrictions, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

Vancouver has voted to ban the distribution of plastic straws as well as foam take-out containers and cups as part of its zero-waste strategy. The ban will be introduced on June 1, 2019. The move is part of the city's Zero Waste 2040 strategy, which was approved by councillors in a vote on Wednesday.