A clever redo of a small 376-square-foot apartment in São Paulo that uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

From how to cook butter beans to recipes and health benefits, here's the lowdown on the tastiest legume in the pantry.

Unless they're specially branded Keep Cups that reduce the likelihood of catering staff getting burned.

Everybody is hopping on the hydrogen train, but it's being driven by natural gas.

A Tesla won't get a camel through the eye of a needle.

For many parents, working from home is the biggest professional challenge they've faced to date. Here are some coping strategies.

The carbon footprint of concrete can be a whole lot better, if you make it out of carbon dioxide.

They save concrete and look great after all these years.

Sand mining is described as "the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of." Another good reason to use wood instead of concrete.

So much for my New Year's resolution to stop writing about concrete planters in the sky.

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house.

Contractors are having trouble meeting the new safety standard.

Using ceramics and metal nanoparticles, a non-profit organization from University of Virginia is making these simple but effective purifiers that can eliminate up to 99.9% of waterborne pathogens.

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.

Companies and manufacturers are creating custom solutions for their difficult-to-recycle waste

Do people have the right to say no to corporations that come into their communities and create environmental and health risks? In Israel, the public is proving that they do.

A major brand is putting out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from recycled beach plastic

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?

The carbon footprint of air freight is ten times that of truck freight; perhaps it's time for "slow shopping."

When the heck did electric commercial flight become a realistic prospect?!

On the heels of their success pushing sales of electric cars, Norway want to spur the move to electric airplanes

This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging.

It's expected that by 2037 the number of people flying will double.

The question of flight shaming keeps coming up, and there has been some significant pushback.

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost everybody is living a low carbon lifestyle.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that's what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.

With a renewed partnership between the fashion label and resale consigner The RealReal, McCartney is coaxing consumers into a circular economy.

Just yesterday I joked seated at my neighborhood's dive-y, not-concerned-about-clean-food diner that the likely hormone-injected milk I stirred into my coffee might spur the growth of a third boob. It was a risk I was

When I reported on a planned 8,100 cow super-dairy in the UK, I noted that many dairy farmers were concerned that these industrial-scale operations would expose the public to the fact that even most smaller

If shrimp can be happy on a farm, why not pigs? For all the weekday vegetarians and omnivores out there, here is a way to obtain sausages, chorizos and bacon in a friendly way. First of all, plenty of indoor and outdoor space

Mac McClelland at Modern Farmer ponders the term "humane slaughter" and visits Prather Ranch, a certified organic beef ranch, to see how it is done

Astronomers are stunned and stumped by the brightest light seen in 24 years of observations of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Learn when the autumn equinox happens and what to expect as we bid farewell to summer.

Much of the upper US could be treated to some celestial theatrics.

In many part of the world, the 2019-2020 winter was the winter that wasn't.

From dancing tree fairies to the reality of spring fever, there’s more to the March equinox than almost-equal night and day.

I've made it through the first month of my thrifty New Year's resolution.

With only two members of the species left, a successful egg harvest and fertilization could mean all is not lost.

Here's what to know about Lynx rufus, the solitary wildcat that roams North America.

A new water treatment system could save billions of gallons of water each year by recovering almost all of the waste water at bottling plants and water treatment facilities.

This novel wave energy technology can deliver large volumes of high pressure water ashore for desalination or power production (or both).

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...

Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.

The thermostat add-on lets consumers set a limit to what they want to spend on cooling and heating and then it controls the temperature to keep energy use in check.

The smart thermostat will help people save even more money and help utilities curb peak demand loads.

The dual source heat pump uses either the ground or the air as a heat source.

The largest grocery chain in the US will develop and implement a new plan to improve its protection of tropical forests.

A compact chicken coop for city dwellers that wheels around the yard and fertilizes soil is on display at "Dwell on Design" this weekend. The show's awards recognize