The mission is ambitious, the motivations are myriad and the methods are many. What's more, the progress is notoriously difficult to measure.

"We are still in." On June 5, with these four words a group of U.S. businesses and investors with a combined annual revenue of $1.4 trillion sent a powerful message to the world

You'll be forgiven for missing it. You may have been enjoying what now seems to have been the last gasp of summer — having a long weekend on the beach or snatching the last couple of days with the children before they headed back to school.

By 2030, the target date for the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, the number of youth aged 15 to 24 years will reach nearly 1.3 billion globally, up 7 percent from 2015.

A warning: At the end of this article, I will raise some uncomfortable questions about sustainable development ...

Companies around the world are being hit by cybercrime. I'm told that it is not if, but when, cybercrime will have hit and affected all businesses and households.

Eleven thousand years ago, the invention of agriculture made stable food supplies possible for the first time. In a relative blink of the eye, farming whisked aside 2 million years of hunting and gathering.

Michael Ford, nicknamed the "hip-hop architect," has devoted his career to studying the history of how urban planning gave birth to hip-hop...

Did the Montreal Protocol fix the ozone hole? It seemed so.

Today, at VERGE 17, Google and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation are launching a report on Cities in the Circular Economy: The Role of Digital Technology.