Designer Matt Kovaleski integrates a solar power system into a picnic table setup for workers at Vice

Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection

Located in Rotterdam, this Concept House features a huge rooftop garden, and uses natural heating and cooling techniques to keep maintenance costs down.

Really, this trend should be nipped in the bud.

This reconstruction scheme in China encourages resilience and self-sufficiency.

There is not much that can go wrong in such a simple concept. That's really smart.

This family with four kids is traveling full-time in a beautifully redone vintage Airstream trailer.

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

Great cities know the future is renewable.

Kids have been digging in salt mines for thousands of years.

The company had been promising "near profitable" results. It turns out they were lowballing.

New wind and solar will be cheaper than 96% of all existing coal by 2030.

It fosters connection and community, boosts happiness... and results in delicious baked goods.

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any,

Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

Bluefin tuna is on the verge of total collapse. Maybe. It depends on who you ask. We may have been talking about

On land, slugs are far from nature's most beautiful creatures--but underwater, the family of shell-less creatures known as nudibranchs come in bright neons, glowing pastels, and vibrant primary colors. The 3,000 different kinds of nudibranchs get their

Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

How can a city destroy an edible garden on private property without legal permission? We also have the viral party-gone-wrong prank on Shell, the 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables, and more.

The case is actually moving forward.

Two weeks of climate action are starting on April 15.

Governments aren't paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people's attention.

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."

Unless, of course, TINA gets in the way.

Ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show starting 14 September, BMW is drumming up buzz for a completely new concept car, the Vision EfficientDynamics. BMW today released a video (over the fold) promising all the sporty driving fun of the BMW M3 in

Test out your green car awareness by seeing if you can name the 2014 World Green Car of the Year. Note: it has to be a new model.

In a funny twist, one of the stars of an extremely popular car show (Top Gear) whose script smeared Tesla is now going electric. James May is getting a BMW i3.

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,

In addition to metrics like ecological footprint, each of us (and each of the products and services we use and consume every day) has a carbon footprint; it's a way to measure the relative impact of our actions -- as individuals, as businesses,

Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's

Taking a step back from the emotional response of the recent environmental devastation, let's take a look at offshore drilling more broadly: How much oil do we currently produce from offshore drilling, and how much might we potentially recover?

My word of the year is a little geeky this time around, but it crosses over -- and unites -- fields.

Resolve to make these simple changes month by month as a graceful way to ease into a more sustainable lifestyle.

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

Researchers were shocked to discover what part of the bread-making process generates most emissions.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Cars are killing us, and it is time to limit the damage to drivers and to people around them, just like we did with smoking.

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.