Buying a mattress free of harmful chemicals and gentle on the environment is no easy task. A mattress expert weighs in.

The resin reduces the energy needed to manufacture turbine blades and allows them to be recycled.

The People's Choice award went to photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, who took the photo in Cameroon.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right.

What is the best eco option- longlasting porcelain sinks, 100% recyclable, lightweight LDPE ones or second hand washbasins? Here's the story of how we chose the sinks for our non-hotel in Barcelona.

Only it can provide the rejuvenation and entertainment that cannot be found elsewhere.

Everybody promised to destroy HFC-23 but apparently they didn't.

Mighty Earth has released a scorecard for chocolate brands and retailers to help you make a good choice.

See this fascinating documentary about the dedicated man who created a forest the size of Central Park.

Wildlife photography has been celebrated for 50 years now, and it's getting better and better.

Toddlers don't need junky snacks. They need real food.

+ Inhabitots just turned three years old! My how quickly baby blogs... and babies grow up! Celebrating your little one's third birthday? Here are six green gifts your tot will love!

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Time is running out to enter! Win a trip to Mongolia for World Environment Day by entering our annual contest!

Scientists decided to put the old five-second rule to the test, to prove once and for all whether there is any truth to it.

The World Meteorological Organization said governments must fight climate change with the same determination as they did COVID-19.

Born on May 28, 2015, Obi was the first of Zoo Knoxville’s gorilla babies. She’s a natural gymnast who loves to climb. Obi’s name means “heart.” Ubuntu arrived on June 2, 2015. He's all boy and particularly enjoys pestering his half-sister Obi.

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Born on May 28, 2015, Obi was the first of Zoo Knoxville’s gorilla babies. She’s a natural gymnast who loves to climb. Obi’s name means “heart.” Ubuntu arrived on June 2, 2015. He's all boy and particularly enjoys pestering his half-sister Obi.

hello products are a solution to the struggle at the sink. This advertisement shows the frustrations moms and dads can face when it’s brush time and they need to negotiate with their kids to brush.

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Rob Stevens presents groundbreaking AdlensFocuss™ eyeglasses at New York’s CE Week.

Safe Handling of Raw Produce and Fresh-Squeezed Fruit and Vegetable Juices

Data showed China's exports rose 3.5% from a year ago, versus a 15.7% decline in a Reuters poll.

Investor and author Tim Ferriss said that he's struggled amid the Covid-19 pandemic. But there's a Stoic practice called "premeditation malorum" that has helped him sit with decisions in difficult times. Here's how to use it.

About 30% of the company's classic AirPods will be produced in Vietnam rather than China, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.

Rent is traditionally due on the first of the month, and with each passing month more tenants are becoming late on their payments.

"We don't think it will have this very rapid seasonal change that we have to deal with influenza," the head of the NIH tells Congress.

In reopening plants, automakers face worker safety issues and must abide by local mandates, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted earlier this week. Then there are more complex problems.

It's unclear why Tesla halted its operations at the plant that's normally operated six days a week. But the move means that Tesla isn't making any cars worldwide.

The second round of the Paycheck Protection Program launched last Monday and has so far provided over 2 million loans worth over $175 billion out of the total $310 billion Congress authorized in the latest relief package.

Habitat destruction like deforestation and agricultural development on wildland are increasingly forcing disease-carrying wild animals closer to humans, allowing new strains of infectious diseases to thrive.

Cramer said he did not understand the market's enthusiasm for Virgin Galactic, which has more than tripled in the past three months.

Susie Buffett sat next to someone who had just returned from a trip to Spain and subsequently rested positive for COVID-19, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

Blackstone chief investment strategist Joseph Zidle predicts the Federal Reserve won't ease as much as Wall Street wants.

Firms in Gulf Cooperation Council countries are facing "very severe liquidity problems" and "very uncertain times" amid the coronavirus crisis, says Gabriel Chahine of AlixPartners.

The coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East is likely to remain under control despite the easing of restrictions in recent weeks, as long as strict social distancing continues to be enforced, experts told CNBC.

Chinese internet giant Tencent has been surveilling content posted by foreign users on its wildly popular messaging service WeChat in order to help it refine censorship on its platform at home, according to a new report.

Time is running out if you're receiving SSI or VA benefits and want to make sure your children under 17 are included in your stimulus payments. You have just until tomorrow to report your information to the IRS. But beware: Some people have already complained that their checks fall short.

To help bolster the economy, the White House is weighing a variety of measures, including the possibility of extending the tax deadline to September or even December.

Even before the pandemic, affordable child care was a struggle for most. Now parents are squeezed by a near-complete lack of help, with daycare centers, schools and probably summer camps closed.

If you want to get your $1,200 stimulus check more quickly, you need to make sure the government has your bank account information on file. But time is running out. You now have until noon on May 13 to enter that data.

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Charity match for victims of Covid-19 promises to be a wonderful wallow in nostalgia for Boro fans

Anthems are invariably repetitive but the paean celebrating Middlesbrough’s journey to the 2006 Uefa Cup final took things to extremes. “Small town in Europe, we’re just a small town in Europe,” Teessiders chorused on the road to Eindhoven and defeat against Sevilla.

The limited lyrics failed to prevent those seven words becoming an evocative, now rather poignant, soundtrack to the season when Gareth Southgate, Stewart Downing and the rest of Steve McClaren’s team annotated the town’s place on football’s European map.

As the Premier League weighs up a possible return in June, many questions remain unanswered. From testing regimes to where games will be played, Paul MacInnes takes a look at the key hurdles

• Project Restart: the hurdles Premier League football must clear to resume