Nature

The palm oil industry, accounting for $19.8 billion of exports from Indonesia alone, faces major environmental challenges. New tools could help companies produce it more sustainably. Read More

If the company's partnership with a tiny biotech upstart delivers on its promises, it could start sourcing and processing the material at commercial scale in the southeastern U.S. Read More

The company's U.K. arm revises policy to exclude suppliers using wood from protected forests. Read More

A prescription for the energy industry to lower fracking’s chemical impact and address community concerns with more meaningful public disclosure. Read More

Coca-Cola believes it has found the real thing in its new technology that reuses cleaned and treated water for non-product applications. Read More

TerraCycle says it can make an impact against the ever-growing mountain of cigarette butts. While the campaign has gotten approval from tobacco manufacturers, there are doubts about whether it will be effective. Read More

As water-related risks grow, it's becoming increasingly important for companies to figure out how to assess those risks. The World Resources Institute has launched a revised, global tool that could help. Read More

Virgin teams up with Strauss to sell home water-purification systems in the U.K. Can it tap into the flood of demand for consumer water purification? Read More

There is a growing body of evidence showing that sustainability certification is spawning far-reaching changes in production and land use practices, supply chains and in the way businesses operate. Read More

Intel soundly beat its greenhouse-gas emissions goals, but missed several other targets: It consumes more water and creates more chemical waste than previously, instead of less. Are its new goals more realistic? Read More