Ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show starting 14 September, BMW is drumming up buzz for a completely new concept car, the Vision EfficientDynamics. BMW today released a video (over the fold) promising all the sporty driving fun of the BMW M3 in

The BMW i8 is now in production, and final i8 details have just been unveiled.

The EPA has just released official "fuel economy" and range information for the BMW i3 100% electric car.

If you'd like a close-up view of the BMW i8 electric sports car manufacturing process, here are the goods.

Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

Here's why the United Nations' Rio+20 Conference matters to everyone.

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.

Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.

Many vegans don't realize that there's 'meat' in their electricity supply.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature

This is green energy writ large. Very large...

It's a good thing global fish stocks aren't in peril...

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

At the time of its construction the Union Tank Car Dome was the biggest clear span structure in the world. It was demolished in 2008 (see Another

A dozen units survive, according to Alastair Gordon in the New York Times

Of course, Bucky answered, "Why not?" On Pi Day, we look at the Dymaxion and other round houses."

Those of us who love everything Bucky are stunned too.

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

The tiny house movement goes to the dogs with this $30,000 dream house.

Authors of a new study say dogs may help develop over-the-counter tests capable of life-saving early detection.

I know there are lots of transit map fans out there. It's a modern art-form for sure! Take a look at these original time-scaled maps.

The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.

The new map was created from a study of over a decade's worth of Landsat satellite images and is the first to show in fine detail land use changes around the globe.

A recent report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded that 55 percent of U.S. rivers and streams are in poor condition. When we see a number like that we might not realize how many rivers there are in the US...

New street view images suggest that one of the Google maps cars was in an accident

A satellite that ran out of fuel two years ago is now giving scientists a huge wealth of data.

The overhaul now includes the Voyager feature for deep exploration, not just satellite views.

The bigger question: why is the industry playing into the hands of the anti-fracking activists?

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

You may think you're ingesting a safe, clean product, but you're really putting synthetic microfibers into your body.

That's more underwater than usual.

Sugar maples rely on consistent snow cover to thrive, and climate change is threatening that.

Trump would rather keep humans out of the country than saltwater.

With a warming climate, the remains of unlucky mountaineers are beginning to rise from the ice.

The Swedish activist is 'delighted' that the new-to-science species will bear her name.

In the latest installment of 'A Death by 1000 Cuts,' a New York TImes analysis lists the Earth-loving rules that Washington is seeking to reverse.

The monthly vegetarian gathering will also host policy makers to discuss various aspects of climate change.

The largest greenhouse gas emitter wants wiggle room when it comes to cutting emissions.

Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for restoration projects that put the

How big of a locavore are you? Could you eat only foods that were available to Native Americans before 1600?

Do international treaties mean anything when America needs fresh water?

Two steps forward, one step back for Japan. The rest of the world has moved on from whaling, why couldn't they do too?

Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

Along with her large-scale drawings, artist Zaria Forman has recorded the eerie song of a warming planet.

Yes, it's actually possible!