What is Lyme disease? Here's where you are more likely to get it and the symptoms to look for if you're concerned.

Websites point restaurant goers to local eateries that support sustainable seafood.

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch iPhone app has added Project FishMap. Now you can add green restaurants to a shared map to earn badges.

Tired of quizzing your waiter about where your seafood comes from? Here's a website and other tools that can help with your restaurant research before you go.

Morieka Johnson helps you choose what to get at the grocery and the sushi bar. Plus: 10 fish to avoid.

You can still enjoy seafood, but make sure you buy sustainable, low-mercury options.

Tiny tempests above cracks in Arctic sea ice help pull down toxic mercury and ozone from the sky — an unexpected new source of mercury pollution.

Shocking lab results have convinced me to buy my tea elsewhere.

The research reveals genetic clues about the insects' behavior, making it possible to target specific attributes.

Nature has a great way of giving clues to the clueless. When spring arrives a little earlier, and fall stays a bit later, it’s not necessarily a good thing.

Santa Monica's iconic amusement pier is the site of this year's Land Art Generator Initiative. The Pipe is an offshore desalination concept that's making waves.

Thanks to massive water-diversion and salt-evaporation projects, satellite images show how the Dead Sea is gradually living up to its name.

More than just the seafood is local at this Maryland waterfront restaurant.

The 300-foot-long (92.2-meter-long) Viking Lady is set to get a battery pack, which will turn the supply vessel into a hybrid ship with technology similar to th

Like magic, sound waves have the ability to manipulate objects suspended in midair.

Adding to data from current technologies, GPS radio signals could help to show a more comprehensive view of hurricanes' behaviors.

Endangered loggerhead sea turtles are making a comeback in the Southeast thanks to protections put in place decades ago.

Microsoft co-founder's donation will fund research into Alzheimer's and other conditions.

75 percent of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, meaning they originated in animals. Here are 10 to be aware of and which animals carry them.

Not that you need a reminder, but the high season of heat cranking and thermostat tweaking is upon us. Energy Star shares a few basics on how to reduce home hea

Wanted: Test scores from 1 million people as web-based research project aims to learn more about the region of DNA that determines how the brain works.

Nothing says "I'm single and ready to mingle" like a dose of salty digestive fluid. For sea lampreys, anyway.

By keeping out invasive cats, rats and other predators, a new fence on Kauai is helping a rare bird bounce back.

A solar computer bag, which comes with charging adapters for various devices, was popular item with celebs like "Modern Family" star Rico Rodriguez.

Plus: Notes from around Hollywood.

Marilu Henner and others stage reading 'Surviving Grace,' a play about Alzheimer's.

New Discovery series 'Lone Target' turns Joel Lambert into human prey.

New research supports the hypothesis that parasites could have a role in preventing certain diseases.

25-year-old wave runner Lindsey Russell undertook the 20-mile challenge to raise money for charity.

A decade-long search for alien life called the Breakthrough LiBillionaire Yuri Milner pledges to fund a decade-long search for intelligent life.

Humans have always been searching for a cure for aging, but researchers claim to have developed a mathematical proof that shows it's impossible to avoid.

The bandage uses a thickening agent known as kappa-carrageenan, obtained from seaweed, to create injectable hydrogels.

Breakthrough vaccine technique makes you immune to all forms of the flu virus.

Seagulls followed the Tiber to Rome decades ago. In recent years, however, they've become more numerous and more aggressive.

The two cities will receive substantial financial and technical assistance from Bloomberg Philanthropies to help combat combat climate change.

London, Houston and Bangkok are among the cities most vulnerable to sea level identified in a new report by London-based charity Christian Aid.

More than 1,000 workers will study the environmental effects of energy production.

Beauty abounds in the weather-warped details of Dwell Development's latest net-zero residence.

The after-school carpentry wizards at Sawhorse Revolution have big, community-bettering plans for micro-housing.

Assembled as a local factory, the prefab housing units will house over 200 people at 3 different sites.

Eelgrass is thriving again, thanks to the help of a sea otter rehabilitation program.

Rare endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles hatch on New York City beach, but they normally nest in the Gulf of Mexico.

Rescuers in Cape Cod are racing to save wave after wave of "cold-stunned" sea turtles.

2019 has been a record year for the threatened species, even after Hurricane Dorian destroyed sea turtle nests in the state.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren't the only days when you can get good deals on a range of gifts.

'Tis the season for Cabin Porn and 200-page treatises on Norwegian wood chopping technique.

People living in the the U.S. and the E.U. are responsible for the greatest average loss of Arctic sea ice, says Max Planck Institute.

Ed Begley Jr.'s back with new book and third season of 'Living With Ed.' Green guru follows up his 2008 book with 'Guide to Sustainable Living' and takes his re

For those who prefer their meteorological forecasts to be startlingly literal, check out this WiFi-enabled chandelier that magically produces indoor clou

Feel free to leave your heart in San Francisco, but don't forget to drop those old boxer shorts and blouses in one of the city's new textile recycling bins.