Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

The project will take advantage of the sun, mountains and sea.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

The data center will be the largest in the world.

Another large-sized solar charger and battery system is about to hit the market, as an off-grid solar generator in a briefcase.

The inventors of the innovative LuminAID solar lantern are Kickstarting another version of their device, this time with the added feature of a charging port for portable electronics.

An important, if short, cautionary tale on being dependent on any single foreign source of energy.

Science has shown over and over again that bar soap does not transmit infection. It is a powerful, plastic-free, and cheap disease-fighting tool.

A remarkable exhibition of the future of transportation is mounted in the middle of industrial archaeology.

India's streetlights are about to have a serious upgrade. The energy savings alone will be huge.

Mini-spots, reflectors and candelabra bulbs were supposed to become more efficient next year, saving 80 billion kWh.

And they are not alone...

Writing in Bloomberg, Marc Champion has a thought-provoking, but controversial take on horse meat, noting that the ban of horse slaughterhouses in the US has increased suffering for the animals. Is that a case for killing them here?

Religious communities across the country will gather to reflect on the moral implications of climate change and our imperative to act. One man, in particular, should pay heed.

The plyscraper era has begun as Cross Laminated Timber towers start popping up everywhere.

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

This fake fight has a good cause.

Phil Levin thinks it will change real estate completely; Christian Wolmar thinks it is ludicrous tech nerd fantasy.

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

In Ottawa, Canada, self-driving cars are being touted as a reason to delay transit investment.

Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

The unmanned flying devices cut out expensive and polluting shipping methods for the heavy books.

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.

And why not?

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.

The tech giant has hit this major renewable energy goal ahead of all its competitors.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.

You already own the solutions. They are called feet.

It's not rocket science, it's building science, and it's all here.

Our bet: no.

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the

BMW has built the first of their Hydrogen 7 cars for public use, and handed the first set of keys over to US funny-man, Will Ferrell. 25 of the first 100 cars will be handed out to celebrities in order to promote their hydrogen cars in a predictable PR

The British government sees offshore wind as a genuine opportunity to lead.

The recycling industry is in a state of panic, hit by two forces beyond its control. The first problem is the economy (go figure). Demand for consumer products is down; retailers are focusing on price versus value. China (the

A new kind of food label hopes to fight obesity by stating how much exercise is required to burn it off.

3D maps created by Climate Central show how sea level rise could change some familiar cityscapes.

It solves the young activist's dilemma of wanting to attend two U.N. climate change summits without relying on fossil fuels.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

Starting in 2020, the company will redesign packaging to be more environmentally-friendly.