Businesses have been urged to grab themselves a share of an industry set to be worth US$3 trillion a year by 2050.

Current policies to make low-carbon and more energy efficient homes risk leaving low income households out in the cold.

Europe's first auction of carbon allowances for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has been held.

Marine planning and terrestrial planning need to be more closely integrated than is proposed by upcoming laws, marine experts have said.

London's Mayor has pledged to give £15,000 to a group planning to mount a legal challenge against a third runway at Heathrow.

Irish alternate energy and waste company NTR has entered into a partnership to carry out research and development into making fuel out of algae.

Irish tidal renewable energy company OpenHydro has struck a deal that gives it access to one of the world's largest tidal energy resources.

The continuing water shortage in Dublin has led to the consideration of creating a reservoir in the midlands to be used as a water storage depot.

Dublin has become the home for the development of the world's first eco computer.

Precautions have been taken to ensure that there is no further spread of a life threatening bacteria found in the water supply at Lourdes Hospital, in Drogheda.

A plan to rescue a world-famous stretch of wetlands has hit a hurdle after it was revealed that large swathes of the land have potentially harmful levels of pollution.

Scientists mapping the loss and health of the world's wetlands using satellites will launch a second stage of their project beginning next year.

Senior lawmakers from across the Americas are set to meet at the weekend in an attempt to agree how the region will contribute to tackling global environmental and financial crises.

Raging wildfires in California have forced thousands of people to flee their homes and destroyed hundreds of properties ranging from luxury mansions to mobile homes.

Environment ministers from across Australia have agreed to develop a national policy to deal with the country's growing mountains of waste.

MCERTS, the Environment Agency's Monitoring Certification Scheme has its first portable landfill gas analyser. Geotech reveals the first MCERTS portable landfill gas analysers to meet the EA's 'Performance Standards for Portable Emission Monitoring Systems' are the Geotech GA2000+ and GEM2000+.

Churngold scooped the Best Conceptual Design award and two further commendations at the Brownfield Briefing Remediation Awards last month. The judges praised the innovative use of In-Situ Chemical Oxidation in low permeability soils at the former ICI Burnhall site in Thornton.

Under a contract awarded by Veolia Water Solutions and Technology (VWS), Gee & Company has installed the bulk of the dosing equipment for the Actiflo TM clarification process to treat abstracted water as part of Thames Water's upgrade of Fobney Advanced WTW in Reading.

A leading international innovator in bird dispersal technology has been instrumental in helping the Sooty Tern re-colonise one of its former nesting sites, bringing the seabird back to Denis Island in the Seychelles, after an absence of over one hundred years.