This week, Environment heads to India to discover the Barefoot College, a school like no other. Here, 40 elderly women from outside India leave their families behind for six months to learn how to become solar engineers.
A controversial water-discharge project in eastern China was scrapped Saturday after thousands protested to highlight pollution concerns. Environmental issues have been a prime cause of protests in China in recent years.
With France’s biggest car manufacturer, PSA Peugeot Citroen, cutting jobs and posting record losses, the French government responded to the crisis in the auto sector Wednesday by unveiling a raft of measures aimed at promoting green cars.
France will unveil plans to boost support for environmentally sound cars Wednesday as part of a strategy to aid the country's struggling carmakers. Industry giant PSA Peugeot Citroen has reported €819 million in losses for the first half of the year.
Shell's planned drilling operations in the Arctic have fallen victim to a spoof website. Also, satirical website The Onion targets the Toyota Prius. All this, plus a scandal affecting McDonald's in France, in today's corporate flavoured Mediawatch.
London's Tate Modern gallery is hosting a series of "blackouts" during which visitors can explore the museum using Danish artist Olafur Eliasson's solar-powered lamp, designed to bring light to the 1.6 billion people without access to electricity.
Many experts warn that global warming will cause sea levels to rise dramatically - a problem that needs dramatic and rapid solutions. So how do we deal with rising sea levels? That's the theme of this week's environment programme...
Protesters in China convince the authorities to abandon plans for a polluting factory. American web users in a wonderful show of solidarity with a dying grandmother. And a guitarist performs a brief history of rock and roll, in one take.
From toxic banking to the asbestos industry – which one is getting a lifeline this time? Also, we focus on World Heritage sites being destroyed in Mali, with the expectation that more is to come.
Just as it was beginning to pick up pace, the French capital’s much vaunted car-sharing scheme, known as Autolib’, has hit a bump in the road after a Paris court ruled that its name must be changed because it breaches trademark laws.
