Opening day at the Collingswood Farmers Market in New Jersey is a huge success.

Find out if your favorite farmers market won in American Farmland Trust’s annual contest.

The results are in for American Farmland Trust’s 2011 America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest. Did your favorite market win?

Learn about the importance of the city that marks a dividing line in the Mississippi River.

DIY Christmas ornaments add nature to your decorations

Giving human names to hurricanes may seem odd, but it's part of a major shift in our relationship with tropical cyclones over the past 60 years.

We make interesting decisions when we choose what to recycle and what to throw in the trash.

Incineration has become America's stopgap solution following China's crackdown on imported foreign waste, and it's hurting low-income communities.

Harvard Business Review names Dan Amos one of the best-performing CEOs in the world.

A study from UC Berkeley reveals that information stimulates our dopamine-producing reward system — just like food and money.

A new study suggests a serious expression could go a long way toward getting some serious work done.

We have a new, official word for all that gym wear you're seeing everywhere these days.

Study finds U.S. and Canada have lost 29% of birds in past 50 years.

Thanks to arctic air from the north and a dip in the jet stream, superstorm Sandy has gotten stronger and is now a snowstorm on top of a hurricane and post-trop

The movie "Hidden Figures" is the story of the African-American trailblazers who helped win the space race. Now NASA is naming a building after one of them.

We all know there's too much plastic making its way into the environment; here's an innovative solution to a seemingly intractable problem.

With Earth Day now behind us, it’s time to take another look at the steps we are taking to be a more sustainable company.

As the largest domestic hunger relief organization, Feeding America manages 200 food banks that distribute food to 60,000 agencies.

Howard Wood wins Goldman Environmental Prize for his work to save marine ecosystems from damaging commercial fishing practices.

Wheelchair-bound author Shane Burcaw started writing funny stories about living with a neuromuscular disease and inspired a movement.

Many schools take hot lunches away from kids who have a negative balance in their lunch accounts.

To prevent kids from getting bored over the summer, teach them some fun garden games.

SkyBridge, North America's longest pedestrian suspension bridge, opened earlier this year in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. And now it's ready for Christmas.

The highly anticipated successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in spring 2021.

The how and what of powering diesel engines.

Volkswagen is trying to convince Americans that its TDI diesels are as environmentally friendly as hybrids, and it's using sports marketing to get the message a

Technology could lead to the transformation of clothes, cars, buildings and even billboards.

Fom Argentina to Mexico, solar in Latin America is likely to grow like gangbusters in the coming years.

A deceased celebrity tops Barbara Walters' annual list for the first time.

New book about the painkiller industry has already been optioned by Warner Bros.

When the only way to visit your neighbors is to hop into a car, holiday parties take on a deeper significance.

Game cameras give us a view into what happens in the woods when the sun goes down.

A terrifying, meat-eating worm is named after John Bobbitt — you know, that terrible episode from 1993 involving Lorena Bobbit and a big knife.

The Inaccessible Island rail (Atlantisia rogersi) can only be found on a single Atlantic island in the middle of nowhere. Here's how it got there.

The newly refurbished stairs in Rome are open to the public again, but tourists will be fined for sitting on them.

Troubles on the set and suspicious deaths helped to cultivate a nasty reputation for these cursed movies and famous legends.

These sweet, inspiring and silly commercials are Super Bowl stars.

Herpers are people who search for chameleons at night and remove the invasive species from the wild. What happens next, though, is controversial.

Photojournalist Emmanuel Rondeau spent a month trying to photograph endangered tigers in Bhutan for the World Wildlife Fund.

billy barr spent the last 40 years living alone in a cabin in Gothic, Colorado, and collecting meticulous weather data about temperatures, snowfall and more.

You may think you like spending time alone, but these deserted roads stretch for hundreds of miles through remote areas with nary another human around.

The 11 mushrooms and other fungi here are a far cry from the typical white-or-brown palette of criminis and portobellos.

The series, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, has the highest number of adult-child coviewing experiences of any children’s show.

Teenager Greta Thunberg wins Time's 2019 Person of the Year award for her work as a climate activist.

Conformity and anti-conformity are just two sides of the same coin.

America 2026: How Trains Will Make Your Commute Better

Most U.S. safety scorecards are based on information from the past. A new scorecard adds scientifically based predictions about the future.

Video: The former VP returned to '30 Rock' in honor of NBC's Green Week -- delivering an unexpectedly funny performance as the light bulb-changing janitor.

Video: Former vice president tells Weekend Update he's just going to start acting crazy from now on.

$75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences to open amidst controversy of site's toxic past.