Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.

The unusual concert was held in the depths of the Florida Reef to promote coral reef protection.

Music is a comforting thing, especially for these rescued elephants living in an animal sanctuary.

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

Eat simpler food.

It's clever, cheap, burns calories and keeps the blood flowing and heart pumping.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island

"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem?

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

Oldest ever popcorn discovered in Peru tells the story of indigenous corn varieties versus gmo monoculture crops.

Just when it started to seem like we had mapped out pretty much all lifeforms on Earth, biologists say they have now found yet another ark-full -- and all in just one small region of South America.

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

The CDC has updated its US range maps to show the which mosquitoes are moving where.

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

With news that Southwest is allowing mini horses on flights, here's what to know about these petite equine wonders.

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

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

An astronaut-eye's view of Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station shows why everyone is kind of freaking out.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

Spend 90 minutes in the eyes of an astronaut.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The latest figures from the EIA show renewable energy sources overtaking nuclear power in the US, through the first nine months of 2011.

For backpackers wanting something other than solar power.

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.