Jason Aramburu is trying to revolutionize how we garden by expanding the production of "Black Revolution" biochar, a soil-less growing medium made from farm waste.

Scientists hope the technology that filmed it can make fishing more sustainable.

He says it is all part of the grand plan and we shouldn't worry.

"Siri, turn down the temperature in my bedroom please"

As reported in the Otago Daily Times, the noticeable impacts of climate change on area coral reefs and a recent starfish outbreak are not as bad as previously thought due to noticeable changes in the Fijian lifestyle. From

There are some pretty wonderful things going on in this little structure.

Polar bears re-brand a Shell refinery in Denmark.

Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.

The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.

Mere days after the murder of celebrity activist Berta Cáceres, a fellow member of her group was shot and killed for his participation in the same environmental group.

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

Cooling servers requires a lot of energy, so why not locate them somewhere that is always cold?

This Australian design takes the work out of parking bikes.

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

Stairs are coming out of the closet and becoming the major architectural element, helping keep people active and healthy.

Images via: Zoic.com San Diego based cycling clothing company Zoic just released their spring line, which now includes EcoZoic - an organic and bamboo charcoal blend of clothing that is both functional as well as eco-friendly. But while Zoic wants to

Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The

Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

They do this so well in Montreal.

Residents in southern Maryland have long felt like they live in an 'energy sacrifice zone.' They already have a nuclear power plant and now are trying to stop a liquid natural gas port.

Green roofs, living walls, vertical farms are all part of a new living architecture.

Green roofs are wonderful things and lovely to look at, but there are other factors in play here.

Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

The last of these dog-like animals, also known as Tasmanian tigers, was thought to have died in 1936. But might they still be lurking elusively in the wild?

The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.

New research calculates how individual CO2 emissions affect the Arctic's shrinking summer sea ice.

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

By analyzing a 364-meter ice core, researchers have been able to go back in time and track the freezing and melting cycles of Antarctica's peninsula.

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.

A gigatonne of ice here, a gigatonne of ice there... Soon enough we're talking about a meaningful quantity!

Two steps forward, one step back for Japan. The rest of the world has moved on from whaling, why couldn't they do too?

We don't hear about the ozone layer as much as we used to anymore, but that doesn't mean that the problem has been solved.

This looks a bit like the Hoth rebel station in Return of the Jedi...

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.

Another signs that the poles are warming fast.

The 10,000 year-old ice shelf is half the size of Rhode Island; its collapse will add greatly to global sea level rise.

New discovery points to troubling signs for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which would prove catastrophic.