Half-a-million “friends” are calling for Facebook to cut its ties to coal-fired power. Will the Greenpeace-led initiative leave a black mark on the world of cloud-computing?

Is hemp the next ultimate material for cars? Electric vehicle developers in Canada think so - and designed a car to prove it.

Your car could soon be chugging along with its gas tank full of fuel derived from whisky byproducts, thanks to a breakthrough development by Scottish scientists.

You’ve heard of the great swirling garbage patch in the north Pacific Ocean. Now a group of Dutch architects want to turn it into a sustainable island where you can live, grow crops and even spend your vacations.

The Dalian Port in China has resumed operations of all its terminal and ground facilities following the July 17 explosion and oil spill. How did they clean it up so fast?

The PR war between environmentalists and the oil industry is heating up, as critics shift their eyes from the BP oil spill to another energy development that shows no sign of slowing.

Go ahead and compare the BP oil spill to the Exxon Valdez, but the age of social media adds an important twist.

With climate change on the agenda of the G20 summit in Toronto this weekend, sustainability experts have a message for world leaders: Integrate economy and sustainability now.

Americans are getting creative about how to clean up the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. Will the silver bullet be sawdust? Dog hair clippings? Do you have a better idea?

In this video blog, Jean-Michel Cousteau from the Ocean Futures Society urges a ban on new offshore drilling as a result of the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Video footage from the NRDC shows dolphins swimming in the chemically-dispersed oily waters off the Gulf of Mexico.

Underwater video footage shows BP’s remote operating vehicle successfully closing off one of the three leaks that is gushing at least 5,000 barrels a day of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

BP Group Chief Executive Tony Hayward says in this video he is proud of the response effort to the potentially catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Nature is full of inspiration for technologies that are both energy-efficient and eco-friendly. Professor Gunter Pauli explores 100 innovations and unique business models meant to inspire entrepreneurs to engage in a sustainable, socially responsible “Blue Economy”.

The online world is abuzz with anticipation of Wednesday’s launch of the power-plant-in-a-box, the Bloom Box, developed by 8-year-old Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.