BevShots are alcoholic beverages photographed under a microscope, creating artistic colors and patterns.

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.

Creative upcycling leads to cellos made from oil cans and works created with plastic bottle caps.

Cartagena, Colombia's Caribbean port city, might not enjoy the name recognition of Bogota or even Medellin, but it has many of the features of a bona fide mains

Beautiful beaches and clear, blue waters are a part of the Big Island's geography, but so are volcanic mountains, lava fields, caves, and impossibly high waterf

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.

A new CNBC documentary follows the secret life of garbage -- from your trash can to the garbage trucks to the landfills -- and our oceans.

For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

A new study by two graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that a little over nine percent of the fish that swim ne

The trash accumulating in the Pacific Ocean — scientists estimate there are 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris alone — is arriving on the West Coast.

New research finds that the Great Lakes are becoming polluted with the same plastic particles responsible for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

There's a secret world of microbes hidden on the plastic littering the oceans.

The winner of a new video contest can join a 3-week 'hardcore sailing adventure' through North Atlantic garbage patches.

A single-celled, coral-killing creature with 'devil horns' has been found on microplastics in the open ocean.

A vast amount of the plastic garbage littering the surface of the ocean may be disappearing, a new study suggests.

Angela Sun investigated several aspects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in her documentary "Plastic Paradise."

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

San Jose City Council selects two sites for "sleeper cabin"-based housing communities for the homeless, after years of discussion and local opposition.

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Honeybees Sweetened Life for Stone Age Humans

The glass plates depict solar and lunar eclipses, comets, and even views of binary stars.

The FDA issued a statement, and then a clarification about that statement, about aging cheese on wood. What does it mean?

Shareholders make decision over concerns that titanium dioxide could be toxic.

A new study done in Boston eases concerns about contamination from the city environment that could be in foraged foods.

Carrageenan is in everything from dairy products to toothpaste. Here's what you need to know about the natural but controversial additive.

Those food storage beeswax cloths and bags you've been noticing? They work.

A new high-resolution image reveals the center of our galaxy as never seen before.

Video: Alexandra Cousteau investigates The Hoover Dam and the draining of Lake Mead.

Learn what is green in the stimulus package.

The winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy spilled enough sewage to match BP's oil spill more than 50 times over.

Millions of bottle deposits go unclaimed in the exceptionally tidy Danish capital each year.

An item you need may be for sale in your own neighborhood — at a price way less than retail.

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where 810,000 homes are heated by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: It needs more fuel.

DNA found in chewed birch pitch helps scientists recreate image, but it's also unraveling other Stone Age secrets.

Amateur photographer Steve Biro takes a riveting photo of a bald eagle and his mirror image.

The 2019 Audubon Photography Awards highlight striking images of birds and the places they live.

See the winners of 2019's Bird Photographer of the Year, a global photographic competition featuring 63 countries and countless beautiful birds.

With cases of the flu reaching epidemic levels, it is critical businesses maintain a healthy work environment.

The lower vaccination rate in this age group may be one reason for the unusually high number of hospitalizations and deaths, the CDC says.

The severity of two big winter storms from 2010 are compared, stat by stat. Which one emerges as the true snow storm of the year?

A new, award-winning public arts project makes good use out of building materials salvaged from Detroit's sizable supply of destroyed/derelict homes.

The 20-year-old wunderkind's impossible dream of cleaning up ocean plastic is becoming a reality.

A woman decided to volunteer at The Wildcat Sanctuary, a small animal refuge in rural Minnesota, and the results have been pretty amazing.

Whether you're a 'leaf peeper' or just looking for some fantastic photos, here's how to get the most out of the season's splendor.

An American Airlines catering cart at Chicago's O'Hare Airport goes wild.

Parents may feel the need to protect and schedule, but experts say our kids learn more when we get out of the way as they play.

Virtually sulfur-free biodiesel fuel is available in blends for home oil burners.

The new bi-fuel car runs on 'biogas,' which is already a big deal in Europe — and it's cheap, too.

A newly discovered hybrid of aurochs and ice age bison has been affectionately called the 'Higgs bison' due to its elusive nature.