With daycare costs rising, perhaps ditching the building is not such a crazy idea.

Report accuses wood burners of being naively careless when they should be worried

Scientists call it a remarkable discovery in an area where butterfly wildlife was thought to be well known.

Activists get one firm to agree to stop clearing Indonesian forests for paper plantations.

Working with nature instead of against it, forest gardens promise abundance, as well as the kind of resilience a changing climate demands.

The Outdoor Care Retreats let nature give a valuable boost in creating a respite from the sterile and stringent hospital environment.

After 25 years of buying land in India that farmers no longer wanted, the husband and wife now play host to elephants, monkeys and more; see a new video about their work here.

The Echmiadzin Cathedral complex in Armenia is one of 12 spiritual destinations that are becoming more sustainable.

An existing storage shed in the forest is transformed into a small modern home with a striking form.

Torrey Trust, owner of Surf eCo, wanted to do more to protect the oceans and the environment so she opened up her own surf school that teaches kids young and old about the environment while helping them catch a few waves. Located in Encinitas, CA,

Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems

Globally, religious groups own 5-10% of the world's forests and influence much more.

Back in 2009, the EPA was sued for "abdicating leadership" on protecting Chesapeake Bay. Part of clean water advocates' anger was directed at a lack of geographical targeting for agricultural conservation funding. But

One of the world's most famous architectural renderings turns into a building. Will it thrive?

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.

Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that

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The new map was created from a study of over a decade's worth of Landsat satellite images and is the first to show in fine detail land use changes around the globe.

The Japanese pursuit of shinrin-yoku uses trees and nature to heal oneself – here's how you can do it even in a park.

37 species under national protection have been observed in the Ziwuling area, thanks to massive reforestation efforts.

One of the '25 most wanted' lost species, the silver-backed chevrotain is a snaggle-toothed, deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit and walk on its tippy toes.

This one of a kind structure combines architecture, technology, algae farming and real-time data, and will dynamically respond to environmental factors like weather and movements of people.

This woodland cabin in the Bohemia region of the Czech Repbulic keeps it simple but clever, with one end perched on a large rock.

Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson has designed a beautiful building and, wow, what beautiful drawings.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.

The continue reduction in Amazon forest clearance is based on preliminary data however. Last year the final tally resulted in significantly higher levels of deforestation.

Despite a steady decline in deforestation in recent years, the latest figure suggests indicate a change of direction.

The Amazon is home to one of the most fascinating life forms of all -- humans, like us, but who are living free from the narrow confines of our 'civilization'.

A popular solution for deforestation has been to offer locals payments for NOT cutting down trees. But does this system actually work?

Woven in collaboration with an indigenous Amazonian people, this enormous sculpture invites visitors to enter a space for ritual and contemplation.

Although activities that mess with local ecosystems to let humans experience nature usually seem intrusive, looking at the canopy face to face while slowly traveling in an aerial tram in the Costa Rican rainforest is a fairly

When two male Alston's singing mice meet, they sing an operatic duet that researchers say offers clues about our own speech.

Timeless responsible furniture design on show at Qubique Berlin this week

Less than half an inch in length, the brightly colored frogs are highly endemic and vulnerable to extinction.

NASA finds that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out – here's why.

Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot and more make the case.

So much for my New Year's resolution to stop writing about concrete planters in the sky.

Photographed in various natural settings, these life-sized, child-like works of art invoke a sense of wonder and delight.

Austria's Wörthersee football stadium is now thriving with life in an installation that is as beautiful as it is chilling.

Soon, willow, alder, ash and oaks will grace the banks of the Maritza river once again.

But no, we're not going to compare to that other tower.

Welcome to almost 30 percent of the world's forest cover.

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

Mixing conservation with death care, a new start-up offers permanently protected memorial trees that solve a slew of problems.

A proposed office uses "climatic architecture" to cool the building by making it into a natural wind tunnel.

The largest grocery chain in the US will develop and implement a new plan to improve its protection of tropical forests.

This is probably one of the most beautiful and awesome ads I have ever come across, thanks to Frame and Form. Watch the Xylophone of the Forest, and before you shrug it off because trees might have been killed for the making of this clip, hear me

Forest ecosystems sequester large amounts of carbon in vegetation and soils, off-setting the carbon emissions we produce and mitigating climate change. The boreal forest and its associated wetlands, in particular, provide critical carbon storage ...

The United Nations established the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in 1994 – the day is observed every year on August 9.

Where did your paper coffee cup come from? Does it support a red-cockaded woodpecker? Or a gopher tortoise?