Abandoned coal plants are a huge opportunity →
They’re cavernous, solidly built and often on prime urban land. Now, they’re being reborn as everything from charter schools to solar farms. REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
Read MoreIndia bets on barren land, rail tracks to raise solar capacity →
India aims to boost solar power generation by encouraging the installation of panels along rail tracks and on barren land, the finance minister said on Saturday as the country looks to cut its carbon footprint and accelerate clean energy production. REUTERS
Read MoreUganda's refugee farmers sow seeds of change →
In Uganda, a developing country where land is still relatively plentiful, refugees are encouraged to build their own houses and use their gardens to grow food to supplement their rations. PLACE
Read MoreCrowded Hong Kong goes underground to overcome land crunch →
From Singapore to sub-Saharan Africa, cities are fast running out of space - Hong Kong's solution is to move more facilities underground. PLACE
Read MoreSekem: The miracle garden in the desert →
Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming it into fertile land. In 1977, award-winning social entrepreneur, philanthropist and drug designer Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish started the initiative an hour from Cairo after a vision. ATLAS OF THE FUTURE
Read MoreIndigenous and women's rights can boost climate fight - UN →
A report by the U.N. climate science panel recognises strong community land rights as key to tackling global warming. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Read MorePlant-based diet can fight climate change - UN →
Switching to a plant-based diet can help fight climate change, UN experts have said. A major report on land use and climate change says the West's high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming. But scientists and officials stopped short of explicitly calling on everyone to become vegan or vegetarian. BBC NEWS
Read MoreStop damaging land or face climate catastrophe, major report warns →
Humans need to stop abusing the land we live on if we want to avoid catastrophic levels of climate warming, scientists on the UN’s major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will warn at at a meeting in Geneva this week. THE INDEPENDENT
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