It does a lot more than just get you from floor to floor, in this interesting Korean courtyard house.

Yet another reason to skip the escalator/elevator and hoof it instead.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

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

Hubble just took the most detailed image yet of the eerie and mysterious Ghost Nebula, some 550 light-years from Earth.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.

When one tiny home isn't quite enough, how about adding another?

It's searching for a place to live because its home has been destroyed by our addiction to palm oil.

The timeline needs some work. But this is a start...

Innovative model brings fresh produce and jobs to areas and people in Chicago that need it most

A piece of classic playground equipment gets a clean tech makeover.

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.

A community soccer field in Rio de Janeiro stays well lit at night thanks to energy harvesting tiles laid under the turf.

It goes from bland plastic to a thing of beauty.

Now in its sixth day, the forest fire threatens critical habitats and precious water sources.

Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group responsible for Saturday's attack in a Nairobi mall, receives significant funding from the illegal poaching. This is why the US sees wildlife trafficking as a national security issue.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are banding together to combat unlawful timber products and curb deforestation.

A vagrant Cape Sea Lion that made a record trip to Kenya is rescued from a fisherman’s gillnet.

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

When sunscreen chemicals wash off beach-goers, they bleach coral, stunt its growth, and sometimes kill it outright.

It took three years, but Hōkūle’a made the impressive journey using only ancient Polynesian navigational methods.

Many sunscreens contain chemicals that are devastating to sensitive coral and other marine life.

There are huge gains to be made by boosting efficiency. Even if we can never get to 100% because of the laws of physics, we could get much closer than we are now.

If your price doesn't reflect the true cost of your product, then there's no such thing as a free market.

Celebrate this National Relaxation Day by doing a whole bunch of nothing too tasking.

And put away your phone if you are on vacation.

A roundup of some posts from our sister site.

and lessons in management from Renaissance Florence

From mislabelling to plastic contamination, eating fish isn't as safe or healthy as most diners would like to believe.

The American public is deathly afraid of the kind of changes we actually face -- such as, the end of consumer culture, the gross loss of value in suburban real estate (which

The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?

This soil-free smart garden promises fresh greens and veggies that are grown as local as it gets.

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.

Grow some of your own greens, veggies, and herbs indoors with one of these automated hydroponic growing systems.

In our hyperconnected and always-on culture, stepping away from our gadgets for one day can be a move in the right direction for slowing down and connecting with people, not screens.

Sunshine is wonderful, but you can have too much of a good thing. This device measures it.

This example of programmable architecture uses lightweight materials and drones to help it adapt to environmental changes.

Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The

Leaving Boras takes us past a

The numbers are in for the World Happiness Report 2017; who wins this year's crown of contentment? Think of it as a love letter to Scandinavia.

Instead of turning sunlight into electricity, and then using that to power indoor lighting, Lucy redirects the daylight into rooms for effective natural illumination.

Portable solar chargers keep getting lighter, smaller, and more rugged, and PocketPower promises to deliver on all three of those features at a low price.

Sunslice is a small folding solar charger that can fit into a pocket, while still producing enough electricity to compete with much larger offerings.

A new way to deliver natural light to rooms without windows.

The GoSun Fusion probably won’t save the world, but the design thinking behind it might.

Kent Peterson does it with off-the-self stuff, but it should be easier than this.

It's less flashy. In fact, it kind of blends in. But it's still designed to save energy.