Zero Carbon Archive

Schools and workplaces encourage our selfish side, but research suggests this attitude is counterproductive to our wellbeing

California senator announces planned measures to help farmers and residents facing threats to their livelihoods amid ‘very, very serious problem’

Legislation rushed through in the final hours of parliament allows local planning laws to be bypassed, seriously alarming anti-nuclear campaigners

An amendent to the Keystone XL pipeline bill hopes to force Republican climate change deniers to state whether they agree with the science or not

As crucial UN climate summit in Peru draws to a close, negotiators have made little progress on draft text

As the UN climate talks open in Lima to agree on a draft text for a binding treaty in Paris in 2015, here is a timeline of world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide since the dawn of industrialisation

During September 1960, electricity finally arrived in the village of Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons. However, as reporter John Mead discovered, not every...

Oliver Wainwright: There is plenty to appreciate about these lattice-work leviathans, but the National Grid is bowing to pressure to bury them instead

Most important assessment of global warming yet warns carbon emissions must be cut sharply and soon, but UN’s IPCC says solutions are available and affordable

Climate change takes its toll on the scientists who study it. But maybe those on the front lines can eventually help the rest of us cope.

For the last seven years, a bunch of Australian materials scientists from CSIRO, Monash University and the University of Melbourne have been developing a technique to print solar cells onto plastic surfaces. Now, the team is tantalizingly close to reaching commercialization stage, meaning that protective covers which also charge your gadgets with renewable energy could be just round the corner.

Welsh hippies ushered in an era of sustainable living well before the world had woken up to climate change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to release a comprehensive update its climate change report. Earlier drafts revealed the threat of climate change is no longer distant.

The floods and storms that have wreaked havoc across Britain this winter could be just the beginning, and now a growing number of people are making preparations for the end of the modern world. Here's what you'll need to do to stand a chance

WInd supplying most of the UK's power on Feb 14th 2014