“Down to Earth” highlights the sustainability inititaives at several of California’s wineries and opens up your sustainable wine choices.

The exoplanets discovered by astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto include one potentially habitable, Earth-sized world.

‘NJ FRESH!’ showcases why New Jersey is rightly called The Garden State.

Soaring prices have made walnuts, almonds and other nuts a tempting target.

Solyndra's public and highly controversial bankruptcy filing is affecting other solar projects.

There's a poaching ring focused on some succulents in the genus Dudleya, which can fetch millions on the black market in East Asia.

Before you check the medicine cabinet, you might want to look in your backyard for a healing plant.

Numerical palindromes can be read the same forwards and backwards.

By playing and joking with young patients, Carrick makes going to the hospital a little less scary.

The ability of royal jelly to help heal wounds is yet another great reason to love (and save) the bees.

White ravens are spotted occasionally on Vancouver Island, but they don't seem to stay for long.

A great horned owl is rescued from the ashes of the Maria Fire in California.

We don’t think that people who want to eat organic should have to pay more for their food.

Talia Frenkel created a company that makes healthier condoms — but that's not all.

A Wales hospice honors children by memorializing their names in birdsong.

The plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is hotly contested between oil companies, Alaskans and conservation groups.

50 technology companies will compete in the clean technology 'Oscars.'

Researchers are developing robotic fish to swim our waterways and patrol for pollutants.

Brrr.

A biker in South Australia stopped when she saw a koala and it came up to her looking for water.

An award-winning MIT team has created a portable, solar-powered desalination system that could provide freshwater in remote locations.

Massive investment coupled with falling prices has created a perfect renewable storm in the Golden State.

Green Bank, West Virginia. is literally one of the quietest places in America, the perfect place for scientists to listen for E.T.

The Aldabra banded snail was believed to have been driven to extinction by climate change, but researchers have found a few stragglers.

Metallic noise, captured from the deepest point on Earth's surface, likely belongs to a species of baleen whale, scientists say.

Scientists have never seen a giant shipworm (Kuphus polythalamia) alive before, and it's the stuff of nightmares.

When vandals took over an abandoned cow tunnel in Portslade in Brighton, the community took it back.

Research reveals you can change facets of your personality if you're motivated and committed.

After fires burned away the dense foliage, an ancient Australian landmark called Budj Bim is revealed in more depth.

The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California is ablaze with colorful wildflower blooms.

Community works together to rescue dozens of horses from California wildfire.

Video shows rainstorms rolling over Western Australia, dumping rain on areas affected by bushfires.

After California bans new fur products, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s also ditch fur.

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Video: As climate talks continue in Copenhagen, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin finds herself in a war of words with Al Gore. NBC's Andrea Mitche

The former vice president has a new video project that he hopes can be a response to attacks from the fossil fuel industry.

This week, Al Gore announced a new venture — the Climate Reality Project — which he claims will push public interest past the tipping point toward serious a

2016 will be the year that holodecks becomes real. Sort of.

As the technology decreases in price, some hospitals are trying it as a distractive force to cut the use of opioids.

Whether you want to fly a drone for fun or business, you need to know the rules.

It's a great example of how phone technology is going to change everything about aging.

The City of San José, California adopted an ambitious Green Vision roadmap and won the 2011 Siemens Sustainable Community Award in the large community category

Pest-killing spiders behave differently after exposure to a common insecticide, a new study finds.

At Italy's Ferrari Vineyards, the honeybees keep the vineyards thriving and at least one bear's belly full.

These small-scale solar systems can bring communities impacted by the bushfires and flooding back online in as little as a day.

Grandma's chicken soup has got nothing on these miraculous broths.

Similar organisms might have seeded the early Earth with life.

A wave in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Cape Mendocino is one of the tallest waves ever recorded.

New evidence suggests this same story has been passed on for 37,000 years.

Australian soldiers from the 9th Brigade used their day off to help feed displaced koalas affected by bushfires at Cleland Wildlife Park.