The series will see all-electric SUVs racing across five remote territories to raise awareness of climate issues. The series has consulted with ecological experts to ensure the impact of its presence in these areas will be kept to a minimum, while scientists will also travel with the teams to investigate the effects of climate change.

Hong Kong can increase its use of renewable energy while working towards achieving its climate goals by 2050, environment minister Wong Kam-sing has said, but he is not ready to fix hard targets.

Quek Yew Aun has been selected by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) to be on their ‘2021 EE 30 under 30 Changemaker” list for his efforts promoting marine conservation awareness. Yew Aun made an impact on the scene with the game he co-created the first marine-themed role-playing card game in Malaysia: Reef Stakes.

For a country that has traditionally been attached to paper bureaucracy, Japan is finding Covid-19 is highlighting the importance of digitization to radically transform and modernize public services, from education to health, in order to adapt to the changed circumstances the pandemic has wrought.

A major window furnishings company is ushering in a new class of employee benefits by offering its surplus weekend solar energy to staff. Instead of exporting this surplus energy to the grid, director of finance Peter Hughes said the family-owned company wanted to share its surplus solar with staff.

A team of scientists at the Penn State Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics has developed a new method of harvesting energy from radio waves to power wearable devices, As per a press release by the university. “We are utilizing the energy that already surrounds us — radio waves are everywhere, all the time,” lead author Huanyu Larry Cheng said.

Roughly a third of all the food produced around the world goes to waste. But now an innovator has come up with a way of making fruit last longer by simply applying a sticker. The inventor of StixFresh says that the sticker acts in the same way as the natural protections used by plants themselves. Simply sticking one to a piece of fruit can extend its shelf life by up to two weeks, says Zhafri Zainudin.

The British band Coldplay has sponsored the Interceptor 005 - a watercraft designed by the Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup to remove plastic rubbish from our rivers. This will be the second Interceptor to be deployed to Malaysia after the first one was received in August 2019 and placed in the Klang River.

The Government is to introduce a low-carbon kitemark to enable consumers to choose greener products, as it aims to cut industrial emissions by two-thirds in 15 years, the business secretary will announce today.

Our summers are already about 20% longer than they used to be, and if the climate crisis continues unabated then northern hemisphere summers could cover nearly half of the year by 2100, making them more than twice as long as they were in the 1950s. And unlike their counterparts of the 1950s, future summers will be more extreme, with heatwaves and wildfires more likely.

The prospect of such a bleak future is anxiety-inducing. We spoke to nine young people about how eco-anxiety—the stress associated with facing a climate crisis and uncertainty about the future—is playing a role in their lives and what they’ve been doing in response.

Curtis Wynn, president and CEO of Roanoke Electric Cooperative, wants to repeat history, and bring the clean energy revolution to Roanoke's service area, a part of northeastern North Carolina where main streets sometimes are lined with empty storefronts and twenty percent of the people earn less than the poverty level.