One World – One Environment – One Network
pelovedREVOLUTION, the online marketplace for buying and selling authenticated and quality-checked designer fashion and lifestyle items, initiates LivingRoom a unique store around the theme of circular economy. Here exquisite designer furniture from different eras...
Indigenous knowledge has helped native communities adapt to natural hazards and gradually changing conditions. Harnessing this knowledge could in turn support Western scientists in scientific research. Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names,...
Using fibre-catching devices as part of the laundry process can dramatically reduce the amount of microscopic particles potentially entering the marine environment, according to new research. The study covered both prototypes and commercially available...
Recycling is still the best way of handling plastic waste in the ocean, despite options to create plastic containers that easily degrade in sea water. These are the findings of a new study conducted...
Seeds offer a level of resilience to the harmful effects of climate change in ecosystems across the globe. But warming and increased precipitation is harming seeds in the Tibetan plateau and elsewhere, says new...
As forest areas shrink and become fragmented, many tree species face problems. They often rely on animals that can no longer disperse their seeds effectively. Biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental problem we face...
Arctic researchers want you to know that each metric ton of CO2 causes a loss of 3 m2 of September sea-ice area. We all know we should fly less as a way to reduce...
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich are conducting interdisciplinary research into the development of materials that open the door to organic infrastructures with closed material cycles, such as bridges...
Chemical engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has developed a material that can capture CO2 from wet flue gases better and more efficiently than current commercial materials. Flue gas generally...
A modular housing project made of bamboo that captures rainwater, reduces heat gain and prevents flooding has won an international design competition. Earl Patrick Forlales, a 23-year-old from Manila, has won the Royal Institution...
MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that could be applied to a building’s windows to reflect up to 70 per cent of the sun’s incoming heat. Their invention could lower energy bills by...
In recent years, the car industry has increasingly worked on making vehicles more sustainable in terms of fuel type and consumption. A team from Finland has also focused on making the whole car more...
Heathrow Airport is offering a major incentive to the UK’s first electric commercial plane: free landing charges for one year. Worth nearly £1million, the prize is the latest in a suite of measures designed...
GES first partnership project launched in Drenthe The province of Drenthe in the Netherlands has installed an innovative, environmentally friendly water turbine called Flowconverter near the Ossesluis locks in Hoogeveen. The test phase will...
At the 16th Alpensymposium 2018 held last week in Interlaken, Switzerland, Successful Green founder Andrea Schaller had the opportunity to speak with two young plastic waste activists from Bali, Indonesia. Sixteen-year-old Melati Wijsen and...
Kiel University and a close spin-off have jointly developed an eco-friendly coating that reduces the accumulation of marine organisms on ship hulls. It is one of the shipping industry’s major problems: marine organisms like barnacles,...
The inefficiency of power conversion can be reduced thanks to a new design from MIT researchers. This could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles, data centers, and the power grid. Power electronics, which...
On 16 November 2017, Switzerland’s leading innovation conference took place for the twelfth time at the Congress Centre in Basel. The Swiss Innovation Forum (SIF) is a national platform for promoting creativity, design and...
A global initiative was launched Tuesday at the UN climate talks in Bonn, with the aim of providing insurance to an extra 400 million vulnerable people by 2020 for climate related disasters. 2017 is...
Cities can slash their greenhouse gas emissions far beyond their urban borders by taking measures to reduce their housing and transport emissions, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact...
