Lomé start-up Woelab upcycles e-waste into new products. We join them as they talk to high-school students about how to get the most out of limited resources and promote a clean environment.

Experts say Lake Chad could disappear this century. With water and vegetation retreating fast, communities around the lake are coming under pressure – and into conflict.

Upcycling is environmentally friendly – and it’s trendy, as an outfit turning old bicycle tires into belts, and the Berlin-based online retailer bringing them to an enthusiastic public, are proving.

A loss of habitat, a taste for bush meat, and a desire for exotic pets has led chimpanzees to the brink of extinction. In the late 1980s, enthusiasts opened a sanctuary for orphaned apes in northwest Zambia.

Want a truly green Christmas tree? WaldDirekt connects shoppers with regional, certified growers who only fell the festive firs once an order has been placed.

Though the Kenyan government restricts the manufacture and import of plastic bags, the nation still uses over 24 million a month. "Challenge Gift Bags" offers a paper alternative.

Nigerian architect and artist Demas Nwoko has built a house in keeping with old African construction traditions. His low-energy home stays cool in the heat, warm in the cold and harvests rainwater.

Decades after the end of World War II, the North Sea off the German coast is still littered with explosives that threaten marine life, and make the construction of offshore wind parks more difficult.

Ever wonder what happens to old car tires? One Niarobi cooperative is giving them new life as fashionable footwear – and creating jobs in one the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

West African giraffes in are close to extinction. But their numbers are recovering at Niger’s Kouré Reserve, where fewer giraffes are shot by poachers or farmers.