18:05 05 July 2010  | 1 comment

There is plenty of hype around greener cars, but meeting drivers' performance expectations is proving hard

17:01 28 June 2010

Novel methods for recycling mixed plastics with self-destruct capabilities could help reduce the growing mountains of harmful waste

13:55 21 June 2010

Sequestering the carbon from fossil-fuel power stations can cut emissions – and there's a new recipe to keep it locked away underground

15:30 15 June 2010  | 2 comments

Making eco-cars more affordable and renewables more practical: why repurposing electric car batteries makes perfect sense

THIS WEEK:  08:00 09 June 2010  | 6 comments

Cleaner ways to dispose of the deceased are becoming available, from dissolving a corpse in chemicals to freeze-drying it to a powder

14:46 02 June 2010  | 4 comments

Solar-powered reactors promise a route to carbon-neutral motoring running on synthetic fuels

10:26 25 May 2010

Smarter office lighting could be an easy win for energy-cutting initiatives

17:34 11 May 2010

A lot of carbon dioxide is emitted in the production of cement – but it is set to become a net absorber of the greenhouse gas

17:40 04 May 2010  | 4 comments

New, cheaper thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electricity could reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions

11:12 27 April 2010  | 3 comments

A technique borrowed from large-scale solar power plants could help householders maximise their energy return from solar cells