Will the Detroit of green cars be in Silicon Valley, already a hub for electronic expertise, or … Detroit?

Days after oil sands producer Syncrude was fined $2.9 million for the deaths of 1,600 waterbirds in 2008, more ducks landed in one of their toxic waste ponds and had to be euthanized.

When Barack Obama heads for India next month, he’ll be carrying a heavy policy agenda. Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel Peace laureate who heads the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hopes…

A new species of monkey has been found in northern Myanmar — puzzling scientists because of a snub nose that means the monkeys are often heard “sneezing in the rain”. Why would anyone want, let…

Graham Hill’s latest design initiative, Life Edited, is a contest to renovate a 420 square-foot apartment in New York City in a way that will radically reduce your carbon footprint. With $70,000 in…

Who are the latest winners and losers in green business? This issue of ASSET4′s Green Gauge looks at companies that have made headlines in recent days for behavior affecting the environment.

Watch this video of Tom Darden, executive director of the Make It Right Foundation, the organization started by Brad Pitt to rebuild affordable, green homes in New Orleans’ lower ninth ward. Hear…

Hungary is back on the world stage because of a deadly chemical spill. For a country that has one so many Nobel Prizes in chemistry, let’s hope they will find a way to clean up the first ecological…

Would you keep a tiger as a pet?

So, does more stuff translate to greater convenience or more happiness? Not really. It’s clear that our metric of Gross National Stuff isn’t moving us toward a path of happiness.

The Next Big Thing in biofuel might involve genetically engineered plants that digest themselves, making it cheaper to turn them into fuel. That’s one of the new ideas that Arun Majumdar, head of the…

Bernadett Szabo spent eight days photographing the disaster than enveloped part of Western Hungary after a reservoir of red sludge, an alumina factory by-product, burst on October 4 and released one…

Bjorn Lomborg worries that people will conclude he’s becoming like Al Gore

This month, Vedanta Resources and subsidiary Sterlite Industries made headlines for being ordered to close a copper smelter in southern India after a court ruled it posed a public health risk to the…

Joscka Fischka, former German foreign minister and Green Party leader, reckons China will force Green policies on the world economy.