Masao Yoshida, one of the Fukushima 50 who stayed behind at the earthquake and tsunami-struck power plant after the other employees evacuated, has just died from esophageal cancer.

A group called Remake wants fast fashion to fall out of fashion, by revealing underprivileged garment workers to the world.

In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the

IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.

Why would an engineer at Apple quit his job to design a product to help gardeners propagate plants?

It's time to take back the streets from all the cars and make room for alternative modes of transportation.

After 25 years of buying land in India that farmers no longer wanted, the husband and wife now play host to elephants, monkeys and more; see a new video about their work here.

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.

A new study looks at how AVs are part of a much bigger picture of how we get around.

Republican Candidate in Michigan blames too much federal regulation. Others might suggest too little.

These lovingly photographed, colourful rowhouses are what's left after all the neigbouring ones have been demolished.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

Don't give up; Collective and individual actions can change the world.

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It's time for some fareness.

Doing street improvements for pedestrians and cyclists increases sales by 30 percent. So why aren't cities doing it?

We've already seen how pay-as-you-throw trash metering can cut landfill waste in half, and we've witnessed whole cities make composting mandatory. So there's little doubt that much, much

Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working

Steve Mouzon looks at the true cost of sprawl.

Nobody should be drinking canned beer. Period. But it is particularly bad for young women.

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

From an existing two-storey transformed into four compact floors, this 11 ft. wide house is redone into a much more spacious home.

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.

Already suffering a perilous decline, the deaths of 4 North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence this month doesn't bode well for the species.

The new-to-science Amazonian glassfrog has skin so transparent that its tiny heart can be seen beating in its chest.

The Obama administration ban didn't last very long at all.

And now the three unlikely friends live together under a single roof.

We live in his world of conspicuous waste.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.

Every year we go look for the latest in sustainable design. Every year the post gets shorter.

The latest video from The Story of Stuff dives into the world of privatized water systems and why this impinges on a basic human right.

Meanwhile, cars and trucks keep getting bigger and higher. It's time to do something.

Was it the Uber car, the safety driver, the victim, or the traffic engineers who designed that road?

The Toronto Star's list is useful but incomplete.

From cherries and cauliflower to grapes and pumpkins, wonderful things happen when you cook these foods whole.

The results of our annual survey are often surprising.

Can these 200 people save the world?

It's about time more cities did this.

New research finds that on just two remote islands alone, nearly 600,000 crabs are killed every year by plastic debris.

These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

Why are we not surprised?

With all the talk of the "sharing economy", are we in danger of losing sight of the bigger picture? Sharing is caring after all.

Studies prove these myths aren't true but nobody is listening.

In which a brash-talking politician takes on the lobbyists - and everybody wins (hint: the "lobbyists" aren't who you think!)

Listen to the Betty Boops of the insect world as they "boop oop a doop" in the hive.

In a ghost town in the one of the coldest places in the US, lone resident Billy Barr has spent 4 decades recording snowfall … to the enormous delight of scientists.

Shoppers like to think they're in control of their own food decisions, but there's actually a complex web of manipulations between supermarkets and food processors going on behind the scenes.

Michael Thiele is 'rewilding' honeybees in California, returning them to more natural nest environments in order to help them survive.

Craving an outdoor getaway? These sites make booking a campsite as easy as possible.