Watch the Architecture of Emergency climate summit
Extinction Rebellion, Waugh Thistleton, Maria Smith, Adrian Lahoud and more delivered presentations on climate change at the Architecture of Emergency summit in London's Barbican Centre. More
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Klaus Littmann plants forest in Austrian football stadium
Swiss art curator Klaus Littmann has planted 300 trees in a football stadium in Austria as a "memorial" to the environment in the anthropocene era. More
Think tank to research terraforming Earth founded by Moscow’s Strelka Institute
The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow has launched a postgraduate course to research how the Earth could be terraformed to reverse the impacts of climate change. More
MIT creates battery-free sensor for deep-sea and extraterrestrial exploration
An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets is the dream of a group of MIT researchers who have created a battery-free underwater sensor. More
"The rapid deterioration of Earth's biodiversity could be reversed equally quickly if we find new ways to design our cities"
Architects must act quickly and cooperatively to change cities and make their environmental good intentions reality, says Doug Voigt, urban design and planning partner at SOM. More
Architecture of Emergency summit to address industry's "failure" to tackle climate crisis
Architects will join leading academics and campaigners to consider how the architecture industry should respond to a climate emergency at Architecture Foundation and Barbican's upcoming summit. More
Goldsmiths bans beef and bottled water in move to end carbon emissions
Goldsmiths, one of the UK's best known art and design schools, has declared a climate emergency and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025. More
Foster + Partners' Marseille airport plans come under scrutiny for carbon emissions
A glazed terminal building at Marseille Provence Airport designed by Foster + Partners has come under fire from France's environmental authorities over fears it could hinder France's target to be carbon-neutral by 2050. More
V&A adds physical and digital objects from Extinction Rebellion group to its collection
London's V&A museum has acquired a series of objects from Extinction Rebellion, including flags, pamphlets and digital files, that show how the global activist group has used design to galvanise public opinion. More
Iceberg-making submarine aims to tackle global warming by re-freezing the Arctic
A team of designers led by Faris Rajak Kotahatuhaha proposes re-freezing sea water in the Arctic to create miniature modular icebergs using a submarine-like vessel, in a bid to combat climate change. More
Digital artwork called Symbiosia depicts effect of climate change on trees in Paris
Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker collaborated with scientist Stefano Mancuso to create this installation at the Fondation Cartier that shows the real-time impact of climate change on nature in Paris. More
Vilius Vizgaudis reimagines Texan city as "capital of sustainable living"
Bartlett graduate Vilius Vizgaudis has reimagined Paris, Texas, as a sustainable city in a bid to entice president Donald Trump to rejoin the Paris Agreement. More
Flooded London by Squint/Opera depicts "curiously utopian" vision of the city under water
Digital design studio Squint/Opera has reissued a series of speculative visualisations depicting London in 2090 when climate change has left much of the city under water. More
Fernando Mastrangelo designs Ridge Collection to evoke mountain ranges
A rippled table and a crackled mirror feature in this new series of work by Brooklyn designer Fernando Mastrangelo. More
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life encourages visitors to engage with climate change
Three decades of work by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson including an indoor rainbow and a tunnel of fog prompt visitors to London's Tate Modern to think about their impact on the planet. More
Climate-change data turned into colourful towering totems
Designer Alicja Biała and architect Iwo Borkowicz have aimed to capture the realities of climate change with these colourful Totemy towers that serve as multi-storey data visualisations. More
RIBA declares climate emergency saying it is architecture's "biggest challenge"
The Royal Institute of British Architects has declared a state of climate emergency, committing to a five-year plan of action for climate change. More
Paris plans to go green by planting "urban forest" around architectural landmarks
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has unveiled plans to plant trees and gardens alongside four of its historic sites to improve the air quality and address climate change. More
"There is no fashion on a dead planet" says RCA grad who refused to make final collection
Royal College of Art fashion student Laura Kraup Frandsen has refused to present a physical collection at her graduate show as a protest against overconsumption in the climate crisis. More
"We're seeing an unprecedented mobilisation of architects in the fight against climate change"
With architects changing their ways in response to global warming, Phineas Harper asks: what does radical architecture look like in the era of climate change? More