Major food conglomerates want to stamp out state-by-state efforts to label foods containing genetically modified ingredients with federal legislation.

The state may soon require foods with genetically modified organisms be labeled.

Image: Toyota Supply & Demand A few months ago, Toyota was quite afraid of the new low-cost Honda Insight hybrid. It even went as far as to make a $21,000 version of the 2010 Prius (aka Prius I) to try to compete with Honda on price. Well, seems like

In a bid to highlight the clean air advantage of the Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen fuel cell electric car, the company is putting up pollution-scrubbing billboards.

A new report chronicles the impact of climate change along Pakistan's shores.

Passive House multifamily buildings use almost no energy and don't cost much more than conventional buildings. They should be everywhere.

Corporate Knights Magazine asks the question and gets a different result than we did.

A new study shows a major difference between EPA estimates and actual landfill numbers.

And the company that makes the chemical, Bayer CropScience, refuses to agree.

Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not

But can fast fashion ever be green? Fabrics are easier to change than business models.

This rapper nails it, imho.

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.

A smart fridge might well make you fatter and poorer.

That honey that lines the shelves of your local grocery store probably isn't honey at all.

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic

They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.

Tortoise sauve! The randy 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise has sired over 800 babies.

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.

Apparently kids are meant to be seen and not heard.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

The mayor has portrayed the controversial soda tax as a great source of revenue with which to do fabulous things for the city, rather than a benefit for public health.

If you could see "aural litter" you would be shocked at how much of it there is.

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

Mushrooms and game meat in European regions where Chernobyl fallout was most intense still have excess radiation, but Burgundy truffles get the green light; foodies rejoice.

And more blaming the millennials, robots and boomers and kitchens are exhuasting.

also: recycling in crisis, how we will live in 100 years.

Even with falling subsidies, solar still makes sense.

The 2019 Cruise Ship Report Card reveals what a dirty, harmful industry cruising is.

This one-of-a-kind treehouse is elevated above the ground to minimize its environmental impact.

This flat pack, do-it-yourself version of a chicken has a lot of features, but can it help raise happy chickens on a city balcony?

It's good news... but we shouldn't be eating tuna at all.

The organization scored the biggest gadget makers on their products' environmental records.

The modern movement started as a way of dealing with tuberculosis. The same rules apply today.

E-bikers use their bikes more, go longer distances, and often substitute it for driving or transit.

The fast food chain has taken last year's promise to eliminate antibiotics from pizza a step further.

Another interesting find from Buenos Aires design fair, Feria Puro Diseno (FPD), this is a modular system designed by local studio Disenaveral to build different kinds of shelving spaces that adapt to changing situations.

Researchers have discovered that the problem of ocean noise pollution extends all the way up to the shoreline. And shore crabs face a double-edged sword from too much noise from ships.

Family doctors are acknowledging that there's only so much medicine can do, and sometimes a walk in the park is just what a person needs.

Perhaps we are getting carried away with all this Smart City Talk; Amanda O’Rourke thinks so.

Survey finds that drivers with a few "smart" features in their cars take a lot more risks.

The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. More than a quarter of the total U.S. grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars

The Gene-Z app works with Apple and Android and can detect plant diseases in 10-30 minutes.

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

In a compromise with environmentalists, the energy giant is committing some significant resources to clean tech.