Japan stands at a crossroads over its reliance on nuclear power as the country marks the second anniversary of one of the world's worst atomic disasters. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that struck Japan's n...

The 10 million residents of Shijiazhuang in northern China have spent the winter choking on off-the-scale air pollution even worse than Beijing's. A growing number of citizens are starting to fight back with the help of smartphones and other techn...

VBS travels to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, where kids play in dirty rivers and the sun sets early behind a thick curtain of smog.

A report released today by Greenpeace and the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources calculated the water consumption of China's growing coal industry and found that, by 2015, some of China's proposed coal mines and plants would ...

You've heard about the Foxconn factory in China where iPads are assembled. But have you ever considered the energy required to store your emails, photos, and videos in the cloud? As worldwide demand for data storage skyrockets, so do the power nee...

As other countries reduce or even eliminate their nuclear power programs, South Africa is expanding its own by building six new nuclear reactors. But at what cost? Not even the experts can agree on the economics of South Africa's nuclear ambitions...

This original investigative report by The Ecologist Film Unit and Link TV's Earth Focus -- which is now leading to calls for an overhaul of how the UN does business -- shows the consequences of incentive programs like the Clean Development Mechani...