They are as gutsy and gritty as ever.

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

If you could see "aural litter" you would be shocked at how much of it there is.

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

Almost two years after a ketchup snub sparked a patriotic backlash in Ontario, sales for French's ketchup remain strong.

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

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

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Biologists believe that oil companies are to blame for the recent dolphin deaths.

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

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

Nations met in Peru this month to discuss solutions to climate change

From ancient trees and strange sea slugs to odd and adorable insects plus more, our most popular reader's photos of the year are a tribute to Mother Nature.

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.

Pesticides make lawns unplayable.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

Did you know that cheetahs sound a lot like your housecat?

Perhaps lofts are not the best solution for tiny homes and apartments.

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

Here is an architect who knows how to get people on their feet.

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

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

To cap off a week of black hole fever, the cosmic object has now been named by a language professor in Hawaii.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

Fresh criticism from Georgian environmentalists adds to the diplomatic tensions created by Turkey's dam-building spree.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

A travel writer captures the beauty of Iceland's wilderness, but will these natural wonders exists for much longer?

The project will take advantage of the sun, mountains and sea.

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

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

Sure, we'll be using oil for a while. But where, exactly, is demand growth going to come from?

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

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

We apologize for the bad pun in the title, sometimes it's just hard to resist. Fair trade is a familiar concept to our readers. Aside from writing about well-known fair trade commodities like chocolate and coffee, we've also seen posts on everything

When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human

Researchers have developed a chip that can run off the low voltage deep within the inner ear.

We matured our cities around the needs to cars. Now it's time to mature our streets around human, not machine, needs. We are all pedestrians.

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

Forget plugging in your phone to charge, soon the battery could stay topped off from swipes and typing.

It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.