The massive American multinational corporation Apple is continuing to make large strides in its pursuit of 100% renewable energy. In its recently released annual environmental report, it states that its corporate facilities are now receiving 75% of their energy from renewables, and that some of its data centers are now 100% powered by renewable energy.

A new app called AppliFish has been developed to help policy-makers, producers and consumers make informed decisions about the fish species that are consumed.

One thing I find very odd about the world is that even today when solar panels are being installed from Canada to Tasmania and powering everything from laptops to fish tank filters to cars, there are still people who appear to wake up in the morning and decide that their mission for the day is to tell the internet that solar is too diffuse a source of energy to be practical.

Millions of people around the world took part in WWF’s global annual phenomenon, Earth Hour, tonight on Saturday 23 March. The 60 minute switch off, which began in Samoa and will end in The Cook Islands, saw over 7,000 towns and cities in over 150 countries taking part this year.

Fire tornadoes rank right up there with the strangest, scariest and most spectacular natural phenomena though they often arise as a result of human-caused misadventures. Also known as fire whirls or fire devils, fire tornadoes can rage for more than 20 minutes, uproot 50ft tall trees and rise hundreds of feet into the atmosphere.

According to a report published by ExxonMobil called Outlook For Energy: A View To 2040, diesel will overtake gasoline as the number one fuel by the year 2020, which is only seven years away.

On May 17, 2010, E.ON, the biggest electricity utility in Germany, opened a brand new 860 MW combined cycle gas-fired power station in Bavaria, which it had built at a cost of $520 million. Less than three years later, having hardly been used and losing money, the owners of Irsching-5 (pictured above) are threatening to close it.

A volunteer of the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation sorts through plastic bottles at a recycling plant in Taipei on February 28, 2013. Tzu Chi runs 5,400 recycling stations across Taiwan with the help of more than 76,000 volunteers. 

Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the sea). This is what wind manufacturer Dong says will help bring the cost of offshore wind down to below that of new gas-fired power stations (the size of the blades, not Bolt’s premature demise).

Now that VW, Europe's biggest and most powerful car company, has agreed to make cleaner and more efficient cars, it's time to convince the rest of Europe (and the world) to follow suit.

There has been no end to the debate and controversy surrounding “fracking” — hydraulic fracturing of carbon-rich shale deposits to liberate natural gas and oil — and its impact on water, land, and the atmosphere. New technology from Santa Clara, California-based Picarro could put an end to it.

One bit of malarkey I see trotted out every now and then is that wind is too diffuse a source of energy and requires too much land to be practical. Well, if that’s the case then coal power must be even more impractical because the coal fueled Hazelwood Power Plant in the Australian state of Victoria produces less electricity per square metre than the state’s wind farms.