A tap with running water came when apartheid ended but the text books for each student have yet to arrive

Australia is on track to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target under the UN’s Kyoto Protocol climate pact in part because of the global economic downturn, the government says

Indonesia’s moratorium on clearing natural forests will not apply to developers of strategic infrastructure

New Zealand’s national emissions trading scheme, the first outside Europe, moves up a gear from July 1 but watered down rules, a flood of free permits and uncertainty over UN climate talks means the market could falter

US considers centralised infrastructure bank with the potential to spawn brand new road network

The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis – or just making money?

Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea

After turning its back on nuclear power, Japan is set to heavily back renewable energy technologies

Vast subsalt oil reserves have been uncovered in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and west Africa, but extreme pressure and inhospitable conditions have made extraction a challenge. But with new advances in technology, these subsalt oil fields may well be the future of industry

Through a plethora of projects Neoenergia is becoming one of the country’s largest renewable energy providers

Should governments be promoting biofuels as the energy industry’s future while millions of people are starving around the world?

Researchers say that dumping iron at the bottom of the ocean will remove carbon from the atmosphere