A dramatic act of protest reminds companies to take responsibility for the wasteful packaging they produce.

Is this carrot-based animal feed additive something worth crowing about?

Everyone is jumping up and down for joy at the fact that McDonald's is now serving antibiotic-free chicken. Please, let's not ignore everything else that's so wrong with the company.

The premature deaths are linked to excessive breeding.

Another interesting find from Buenos Aires design fair, Feria Puro Diseno (FPD), this is a modular system designed by local studio Disenaveral to build different kinds of shelving spaces that adapt to changing situations.

Using mushrooms to challenge our unhealthy obsession with "body preservation," artist Jae Rhim Lee fabricates a suit that will remediate environmental toxins from dead bodies.

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

Architects are finally taking it seriously. It's about time.

The motion is non-binding, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

While advertising her new film "Beauty & the Beast", Watson wants people to think about how and where clothes are made.

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

This Australian design takes the work out of parking bikes.

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.

We often criticize climate denialists for being anti-science, and yet many environmentalists reject science that clashes with their own worldview.

Inspired by massive flooding in the UK, the Church of England is renewing its commitment to fighting climate change. And that's sending a signal to the markets.

Fossil fuel divestment is a moral issue. Religious institutions appear to be taking a stand.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.

Researchers have discovered that the problem of ocean noise pollution extends all the way up to the shoreline. And shore crabs face a double-edged sword from too much noise from ships.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

Thought experiments worked for Einstein. Can they help protect the environment too?

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.

The UK newspaper dates the movement back to the publishing of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; I contribute with a guest post on architecture and design

A typical pacemaker could be powered by solar cells as small as 3.6 square centimeters, which could be implanted under the skin, thereby avoiding the need for periodic battery replacements.

We spend billions of dollars on over-the-counter cough medicine, but numerous studies find it’s not effective. Try these tips instead.

With one in 3 cases of dementia preventable, a sweeping new report identifies modifiable factors in early, mid- and late life that make a difference

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.

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.

A visit to a Sri Lankan herb and spice garden reveals a rich history of trade and alternative medicine.

Here is the secret for the most delicious, cheapest, and least wasteful lasagna you can make.

This recipe is creamy, sweet, and wonderfully refreshing.

This fake fight has a good cause.

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.

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

Something like this could be on the roads by 2022.

Though it was announced over two weeks ago, perhaps because of Exxon's backing of Synthetic Genomics, Dow Chemical's backing of Algenol Biofuels is getting a bit more play. Together they will develop a pilot-scale algae

It's been a while since a good poo-power story has come down the pipe, but here's an interesting one: Massachusetts-based biofuels company Qteros and wastewater recyclers Applied Clean Tech have announced that they

Can we just all put palm oil biodiesel produced on deforested peatlands to rest already: A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows that biodiesel production under these

After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.

Is the conventional wisdom that we need not worry about tailpipe emissions in biofuel-powered vehicles, because the plants had been absorbing carbon while growing, grossly misguided?

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.

This poetic, one-of-a-kind urn floats on the water while slowly returning cremated remains to nature.

Sensors on cell phones is a concept that has gone mainstream enough that this Kickstarter project has blown its funding goals out of the water. The device turns your cell phone into a "Swiss Army Knife of environmental sensors."

Art Works For Change is using a unique online exhibit to inspire change through storytelling, including 'featured tours' of the galleries by leading eco-organizations.

A new study found men think society expects them to conform to stereotypes ... but how right are they?

We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.

Also called "carbon lock-in," it's about time.