Australia's $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.

The tech and finance sectors dominated the magazine’s highly anticipated annual review of the top 500 publicly traded U.S. and global companies.

Bill Gates is backing the world's largest algae farm. What does he know that the rest of us don't?

The concept of pricing ecosystem services and allowing them to be bought and sold has gained wide acceptance among conservationists in recent years. But does this approach merely obscure nature’s true value and put the natural world at even greater risk?

At our recent VERGE São Paulo event, leaders from IBM, GE and WWF agreed that private sector collaboration is needed to help spur advancements in sustainable technology.

A few companies across the aviation sector have signed on to the idea of using sustainable fuel -- Boeing is among them. But to be able to use it effectively, an industry-wide commitment is needed.

As cities become more populated, planners are going to have to start thinking hard about open spaces.

It's an unprecedented opportunity.What issues would you choose? What messages would you impart? How would you leverage the opportunity to affect behavior change at scale?

Hunter Lovins, the keynote speaker at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's conference, should have been a huge hit. Not.

Inadequate sewage systems and the lack of toilets in much of the developing world have created a major public health and environmental crisis. Now various innovators are promoting new kinds of toilets and technologies that use little or no water and recycle the waste.