In southern Chile hundreds of thousands of salmon escaped a farm during a storm in July. The company responsible, Marine Harvest – the largest salmon producer in the world – had 60 days to capture 10 percent of the fish. But when their deadline to do so expired, less than six percent had been recovered, which is causing problems for local fishermen and the environment around them.

Hurricane Florence has left more than just storm damage. Hazardous waste from hog and chicken farms and heavy metals from coal ash sites can cause long-term health risks in North and South Carolina. In an interview, Will Hendrick from the Waterkeeper Alliance discusses the future of storms and public health.

How would you survive in times of drought? In Kenya, a group of Masai living on the side of a volcano have found out how to extract water from the volcanic steam, but now the state wants to use this for geothermal energy.

Canadian scientists are hoping to replace a third of jetfuel with biofuel made using seeds from an Ethiopian plant within the next decade. But legislation and the need for further testing is causing some delays.

In Lebanon, power outages in some areas last for up to 12 hours a day. Now, the country's first wind farm is hoping to provide an extra 90 minutes of power supply nationwide, but the war in neighbouring Syria, the question of who actually owns the land and migrating birds flying through the area are posing more than a few difficulties.

In many parts of Africa, the increasingly high cost of chemical pesticides — coupled with some pests developing a resistance to them — has sparked interest in using plants to protect crops. Michael Wambi joined a group of students in Uganda who are experimenting with natural pesticides.

For the last six years, activists have been living amongst the trees of Germany's Hambach Forest in a bid to stop energy company RWE from mining the land for brown coal. Plans to clear the area have already been approved and police are enforcing the eviction of protesters. The DW Environment team went to find out more about what this means for fossil fuels in Germany.

Few things are more quintessantially German than the forest. With more than 30 percent of the country still given over to woodland, there are more than four million hectares of trees that need to be looked after. DW's Tamsin Walker headed into the woods of Spessart in Bavaria to join a group of volunteers lending a helping hand.

Thanks to strict planning laws, the fracking industry in Britain has struggled to get off the ground. However, things look set to change now that the government has loosened regulations, citing fracking's huge economic benefits. DW's Nik Martin visited one of the new proposed fracking sites in Surrey to find out how residents have kept fracking at bay for the last decade.

In just more than six months' time, Britain is set to leave the EU, where the Common Agricultural Policy has long been a bone of contention. Could Brexit provide new opportunities for sustainable farming in the United Kingdom?