Supported by the Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology Centre, young farmers are experimenting with natural farming methods, while saving money and lives in the process.

The company should really be called 'Eggland's Worst,' based on how these poor animals are treated.

Scientists found a way to get more crops per acre and save the planet at the same time.

I picked a lot of squash.

Few things make as much sense as eating a harmful species, while sparing the threatened ones.

Report also provides a blueprint for how to overhaul the food system to improve wellbeing all around.

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.

The Echmiadzin Cathedral complex in Armenia is one of 12 spiritual destinations that are becoming more sustainable.

As a keystone species, the importance of the sea otter on the health of coastal ecosystems can't be understated. A new study shows that they may even play a key role in helping coastlines cope with agricultural run-off.

Tiny houses don't have to be overly cute and rustic, as this little modern home shows.

A new study shows that children bear 88 percent of the burden of diseases linked to climate change.

Getting enough nutrients from food reduces risk of death, not the same could be said for nutrients in pill form. And in fact, some supplements were linked to increased risk of death.

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.

It runs the full width of the car. What could possibly be the problem?

The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from

Knitted woollens should never get tossed until you've tried to repair them. Thanks to online tutorials, it's not as hard as it seems.

Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming Update: Karin has reported on this initiative before under Fish Farming Moves to the Condos, and Lloyd also covered it under the Future of Food. Great to see it still

New York's skyline is getting greener and a whole lot more productive too.

We are going to need a new term that binds them all together. A lecture in 20 slides.

As subsidy-free renewables proliferate, it will become harder to derail decarbonization.

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed

Managing a sugar bush is a win-win situation for all involved.

A community effort in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains offers hope for this unique mammal.

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

Buying products from solar farms is just one more way to support clean energy.

Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects figure out how to square the circle.

Radioactive uranium occurs naturally in soils but farming techniques may be causing it to dissolve into groundwater

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.

A new study suggests we look to the past for guidance on how to cope going forward.

More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers

When doctors team up with food banks, it improves health and staves off chronic hunger.

This fascinating installation where algae, bioluminescent bacteria, humans and smartphones interact may chart where a new generation of urban "cyber-gardeners" may go.

An extended mating season is bringing California's tarantulas out in droves; here's a reminder to go easy on the gentle giants.

These designer bags from Brooklyn are made with local leather.

Tomorrow's home urban farm may not need soil, just an Urban Farm Pod that doubles as an extra living space (emphasis on the "living").

The vase designed and named after Finnish designer Alvar Aalto is an icon among the design-savvy. The now-classic piece was released in 1937 at the World Fair in Paris. Today, the vase is produced by Iittala, which has slightly changed the size and

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San

As always, they warm your hearts as well as your toes.

Dutch designers build a border wall that you can skate through.

The jungle wasn't untouched rainforest after all.

We've all heard it — "this city" or "that city" has more bicyclists because it has warmer weather. Looks like it's time to retire that statement.

In this excerpt from the latest book by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the authors explain why we're standing at a climate crossroads&dmash;and how serious the next decision really is.

A pull between city life and the slower pace of nature inspired author and illustrator Julia Rothmans to create “Nature Anatomy.”

A rise in Arctic storms has more than doubled the number of winter warming events, which could greatly impede ice growth.

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects