Who forgot their charger?
Will Oliver / EPA
Why taxis firms and electric vehicles are a perfect match.
Save The Elephants suggests that 100,000 elephants were killed for their tusks in the past three years.
EPA/Daniel Irungu
If we want to save elephants we need to tackle widespread corruption that threatens their populations – and this goes for all wildlife.
Fish can suffocate too.
Bruce Evans
The oxygen is being sucked out of the ocean, and while much of it is happening far below the surface, it will still affect us above.
These streets were made for driving.
Matt Cornock
The most common way to get around is also the most neglected.
Soon you’ll be able to buy energy straight from your neighbour’s roof.
Steve Jurvetson
Cheap renewables and modern tech are a massive threat to traditional energy providers.
Don’t give up the day job, Nelly.
Dennis Jarvis
The natural world throws up all kinds of beautiful creations, but many still say art is for humans.
These ‘cliffs’ can be the height of a skyscraper.
Torsten Blackwood / EPA
A massive glacier tongue sticking out off the edge of the continent has been snapping off every 70 years.
Ringing through the changes.
Hernán Piñera
The Palace of Westminster is due to undergo a refurbishment and the original designs for its ventilation system are still relevant today.
Well meaning, but possibly unhelpful.
Kamyar Adl
Selling shares in polluting energy companies just leaves these firms in the hands of less concerned owners.
Exotic mosquitoes like this ‘Asian tiger’ are heading to the UK.
Australian government
The folk song goes: all God’s creatures got a place. But not the mosquito.
A dam in Indonesia splits the forest in two.
Bagus Indohono / EPA
Smaller, isolated chunks of forests can’t sustain as much wildlife as one big connected region.
Aurora borealis lights up the sky over Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, England.
Owen Humphreys/PA
How scientists tracked a massive emission from the sun right across the solar system.
Not just a pretty face.
Noal Siegel
Luminous fungi have evolved pale green light to attract insects to spread their spores.
Cool, now whose turn is it to make the tea?
Ramon de la Rocha / EPA
A solar eclipse knocks out Europe’s solar power generation while also causing a huge surge once people get bored. It’s a unique energy challenge.
What’s pulling the plug on the world’s carbon sink?
Geoff Gallice
Tropical rain forests play a key role in regulating the environment, but the Amazon is struggling.
Winning lots of battles – if not the war.
Fernando Bizzera Jr / EPA
Native groups in a remote corner of Peru just took over 14 oil wells for a month.
A fridge too far?
EPA
Making and keeping things cold is one of the big challenges of the next decade.
Christopher Columbus: discoverer of continents, definer of geological epochs.
Albert Bierstadt: The Landing Of Columbus (1892)
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas they didn’t just make human history – they changed planet Earth forever.
Mission accomplished? Protesters outside the European parliament in Brussels.
Greensefa
Europe was supposed to be big business for fracking companies, but so far not so good. So what’s going wrong?
The Maasai no longer have to hunt lions to gain some pride.
DAI KUROKAWA / EPA
You don’t need to kill wild animals to prove your worth.
Coming to a forest near you?
lynx image via www.shutterstock.com
There’s more to reintroducing wildlife than just releasing a few lynx.
The planned wind farm will be four times larger than the current champ - London Array.
London Array Limited
Dogger Bank, a popular fishing spot in the North Sea, could soon host up to 400 wind turbines.
Swansea Bay: tidal powerhouse?
Marylyn Jeans
A tidal lagoon for Swansea could harness the power of the seas.
Even the funkiest skyscrapers can’t stand out in the Beijing smog.
EPA
We’ve seen smog before, but never on this scale.
There must be energy here…somewhere.
NASA
A new form of engine can capture the energy released when solid carbon dioxide turns into gas.