Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

It's being killed the name of "convenience."

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.

At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project

Oldest ever popcorn discovered in Peru tells the story of indigenous corn varieties versus gmo monoculture crops.

Just when it started to seem like we had mapped out pretty much all lifeforms on Earth, biologists say they have now found yet another ark-full -- and all in just one small region of South America.

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?

The new find may change anthropologist's conception of early Peruvian prehistory.

Biologists believe that oil companies are to blame for the recent dolphin deaths.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

A skeleton of the bizarre land-walking whale provides answers about how whales first spread around the world.

Nicolas Laisné's vast project is a very different kind of office development.

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

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

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

Nicknamed 'Farout' by the team that discovered it, the celestial object is some 11,160,000,000 miles away.

Hubble's image of Messier 3 reveals what astronomers say is one of the prettiest "globular clusters" in the universe.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

Hydroelectric power is an easy choice to make if you have access to a stream or river, but this concept takes advantage of the streams running through our walls: our plumbing.

World hydroelectric power generation has risen steadily by an average 3 percent annually over the past four decades.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.

A mix of wind, solar and hydro power could replace fossil fuels in every country in the world.

What to do when a church gets in the way of your water plans? Drown it.

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

When one tiny home isn't quite enough, how about adding another?

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.

The kit includes an LED headlight and tail light and a rugged case that attaches a smartphone to the handlebars.

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers uses ultra-thin, flexible materials to generate electricity from body heat.

Spark is a musical instrument that harvests kinetic energy when it's shaken, storing it in a battery for powering LED lights.

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.

The shiny sticker generates energy from movement.

The same inventor who brought us the body heat-powered flashlight is at it again.

Could this be even more encouraging than a FitBit to get up and walk around?

Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.

From record investments in energy investments made by US states, to East Africa's largest wind power project, Chicago's smart gridization, to Chevron's huge fine being upheld, here's what we're reading today.