A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on a 3-month Antarctic expedition, supporting an international proposal for the world’s largest protected area.

Wind on the snow dunes of the Ross Ice Shelf causes a near-constant hum that is as beautiful as it is haunting.

In support of Greenpeace's Antarctic campaign, this may be the prettiest video I've ever watched – and the cause couldn't be more important.

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

The iconic English office pod can be used for all kinds of things.

More proof that some things never change.

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

Few other animals are known to be intrinsically motivated to assist others in need.

Architects are often late bloomers. Frank Gehry is in his prime at 79; Ralph Rapson died at his drafting board last year at 93.

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design

Barcelona wants to build an indoor carbon-neutral ski dome, taking waste energy from the gas industry to cool the hall and using renewable energy to power the rest... fact or fiction? Eco-friendly or greenwashing?

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

Don't just sit there, do something.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

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

The largest wildlife refuge in the United States needs protection from oil & gas development.

The graph says it all...

The map-makers are calling this the biggest change that they had to make since the breakup of the U.S.S.R.!

Actors Emma Thompson and Michelle Thrush are traveling with their daughters to the North Pole, as part of an Greenpeace campaign to create an international sanctuary in the Arctic.

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

More good news for the Arctic as the Obama administration pushes off further offshore drilling in Alaska.

Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.

This week, delegates are meeting to determine the fate of a proposal to protect part of the Arctic. This pianist's moving performance urges people to show their support.

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.

A rise in Arctic storms has more than doubled the number of winter warming events, which could greatly impede ice growth.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.

Scientists discovered that plants in the Arctic are growing twice the height.

As melting ice opens up new potential for exploitation in the Arctic, a new ban aims to protect much of the fragile ecosystem.

A new NOAA report reveals we've lost 95% of the Arctic's oldest, thickest sea ice. Here's what that looks like.

70% of this potent pollutant comes from fossil fuels, not biomass burning.

In 40 days over the summer, the coast had retreated by 14.5 meters, sometimes more than a meter a day.

An Arctic explorer calls for 'party ships' to be kept out of this sensitive and remote part of the world.

A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.

Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.

It's all about the amazing connections.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to.

The device made from household objects could replace AA batteries for powering small electronics.

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.

We´ve noted in the past plans for new desalination plants in Australia and low-grade energy desalination technology from New Mexico.

Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --

Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?