The oceans hide vast valuable minerals and metals that are running low on dry land. But what happens when you start rooting around on the seafloor, where life has been undisturbed by humans for billions of years?

Shopping malls have seen a major decline over past decades due among other factors to the rise of online shopping. Now, a proposed megamall just north of Paris is making a bid to be relevant by becoming glitzier than ever and piling on the added attractions. But environmentalists have other ideas of what the city of the future should look like.

The small British city of Bristol has successfully cut carbon emissions over the past decade, even as its economy grew. How is the former European Green Capital nurturing a green economy and persuading its citizens to get around the city pollution-free? Once a year, a month-long program of walking events is helping shift the culture away from cars.

Shenzhen in southeast China is considered the country's most up-to-date location, and as the world's first mega-city to boast an all-electric bus fleet, its public transport system is no exception.

Plastic has been making plenty of headlines and we're all becoming aware of the damage it does to marine habitats, and its insidious spread into everything from drinking water to Arctic ice. In the UK, activists are taking the problem into their own hands.

Fast fashion may well be a modern phenomenon, but the environmental damage and exploitation of workers that goes into the business of staying on-trend has a long history, as a new exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum reveals.

As the EU takes Germany and other member states to court over air pollution, Berliners have launched their own law-suit in a bid to force the city to take action, and help citizens breathe more easily.

The great plains of Africa, the American wild west or the Australian outback – perhaps some of the images conjured in your mind when it comes to the word “wilderness”. But what about the Netherlands? How much wilderness can a small country take?

The Congo Basin rainforest spans six countries in central Africa. It's a biodiversity hotspot, and yet it's disappearing at an alarming rate. Often cleared for agriculture, environmentalists are encouraging farmers to adopt more sustainable methods to grow crops and protect the forest.

It’s been more than three decades since the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Catastrophic radioactive contamination turned the 30-kilometer exclusion area into a “dead zone.” But left to its own devices, new life is evolving in the radioactive wasteland.