Tatooine, a desert planet in 'Star Wars,' may have a real-life analogue 1,000 light-years away.

Are natural flavors better and safer than artificial flavors? The answer may surprise you. Here's everything you need to know about flavor engineering.

Waves crash against wind turbines perched on a jetty in Boulogne-sur-mer, France.

In addition to buying energy from Altamont Pass wind farm, Google is financing upgrades that will save thousands of birds' lives.

Furnishings that pull double or triple duty really earn their keep.

Here’s a look at the psychology behind hoarding, how it differs from collecting and ordinary clutter, and how to keep untidiness to a minimum.

Student Jack Ross Pilkington is working to save dying bee populations and has even become a bit of a beekeeper.

Markus Imhoof's new documentary balances microphotography with compelling storytelling. The film will debut on June 10.

The president steps up efforts to protect the pollinators — and their $24 billion contribution to the U.S. economy.

The designer of the Bee Saver, a bioplastic keychain that contains artificial nectar, believes small acts can make a big difference.

Mushroom extracts have been shown to reduce the presence of bee-killing viruses.

Coal helped create communities throughout Boone County, West Virginia, years ago but now mountaintop removal mining may be demolishing more than just mountains

Photographer explains the story behind Indonesia's majestic Kawah Ijen volcano, which appears to spew eerie blue lava.

Coal mines are destroying the life that its miners have come to know through pollution and job loss.

Our houses are way more efficient than they used to be, but we're using more energy per capita than we ever have.

If you love the idea of long-lasting LED bulbs but not the price, this one-day Amazon Gold Box Deal may put these energy savers in your price range.

We can't just build better; we have to change the way we live.

With California-based OhmConnect, it's easy being green when you're also earning green.

The color looks radioactive, but activists promise it is nontoxic and harmless to marine life.

Those who live in the Quebrada Camarones region of South America's Atacama Desert have a remarkable resistance to arsenic, which is in the water.

Paddlers Paul Twedt and Michael Anderson started their Three Rivers Project to clean up Minnesota's three largest rivers.

Over 500 workers have been mobilized to deal with the endless tide of garbage inflicting the beaches of Santo Domingo.

Spanish endurance athlete Antonio de la Rosa is the first to cross the Pacific on a paddleboard.

Shuttle Endeavour touched down safely at the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning, completing its final mission to space.

NASA deployed a few high-flying paparazzi to Hollywood to scout out the best photo spots for next month's arrival of one of its biggest stars: space shuttle End

As the space shuttle Endeavor is poised to come to Los Angeles, crews will remove about 400 trees to make room for its passage.

Space shuttle Endeavour's trip to California has been delayed by a weather front in its way.

Space shuttle Endeavour's highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles has been deferred by a day.

The space shuttle Endeavour will begin a three-day trip across the United States on Sept. 19, and you can catch some of that journey —the final piggyback flig

The space shuttle Endeavour takes to the skies above California for its last-ever flight today, Sept. 21, giving observers from Sacramento to Los Angeles a one

Space shuttle Endeavour, now a permanent resident of the state of California, has traded its winged chariot for a set of custom wheels.

The iconic space shuttle Endeavour, in commission for 20 years, has arrived at a museum in LA, making that its home for the foreseeable future.

Space shuttle Endeavour, you're a star. A captivating new time-lapse movie has condensed Endeavour's recent three-day road trip to a Los Angeles museum into mer

Amidst much fanfare, the new museum display featuring retired space shuttle Endeavour opened to the media and invited guests here on Oct. 30.

Temperature records across the continent continue to fall as Europe buckles under heat wave. At least seven deaths have been attributed to the heat.

Kitschy nostalgia and clean-tech collide along Route 66, America's Mother Road, thanks to Solar Roadways.

If you're a fan of humanely raised, sustainable beef, you may want to become a 'steakholder.'

Twelve of the world's leading chocolate producers, with some help from Prince Charles, intend to tackle deforestation.

The final report by President Obama's oil spill commission concludes that the Deepwater Horizon blowout and subsequent massive oil spill was caused by a series

The retiring three-term Republican will leave behind many legacies, including a strong anti-environment record.

Documentary will offer a bird’s-eye view of conservationists’ efforts to save wildlife affected by the disaster.

At the time of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the spring of 2010, computer models predicted that the 200 million gallons of crude oil pouring out of the gus

Scientists propose dropping poison to kill mice on the Farallon Islands, but there's concern that wildlife and water quality will suffer.

Researchers hope these rhinos could serve as surrogate mothers, saving the northern white rhino subspecies.

These half-dozen exercises will help you shed pounds if obesity is in your genes.

While it ranks high on the gross scale, peeing in a pool has never been considered hazardous. A study, however, uncovers health effects.

Here's a graphical glimpse at America's most endangered wildlife, where they live and how many are left.

The sun, like many stars, may be a binary, meaning it could have a mass-extinction-causing 'brother.'

The Jambato harlequin frog had been feared extinct for at least the last 30 years.

Researchers extract nuclei from a preserved woolly mammoth carcass, implant them into the egg cells of mice, and watch as the bits became animated.