Scientists are concerned about how airports are conducive to the spread of disease.

From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be able to reap the harvest.

Over the past three days, one of Helsinki's tram lines has been carrying some unusual cargo -- living plants donated by passengers for inclusion in a roller-coaster-themed urban garden.

The sound of gunshots has been transformed into the sound of music in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez, where artist Pedro Reyes turned 6,700 confiscated weapons into a complete orchestra of fully playable musical instruments.

A new exhibition in Toronto looks at sustainable development.

A new Human Rights Watch report shows the horrific conditions, both environmental and social, that 90% of Bangladesh's leather is produced in—and exported from, to the US, China, Italy and elsewhere.

A new study shows how adolescents quickly improved their sleep time and quality in just one week's time.

Uttar Pradesh is going to be looking a lot greener after a marathon 24-hour tree-planting frenzy.

Report also provides a blueprint for how to overhaul the food system to improve wellbeing all around.

What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban

You want your kid to have a desk that fits her, to do homework, play and draw. You also want your kid to grow up, eventually. But you don't want to buy a new desk every few years as she outgrows the old one. So

Using mushrooms to challenge our unhealthy obsession with "body preservation," artist Jae Rhim Lee fabricates a suit that will remediate environmental toxins from dead bodies.

This automated smart home system for small apartments takes the effort out of having to transform your all-in-one furniture unit by hand.

Plus two ways to go green as we upgrade our popular series.

This pediatric care unit showcases how sustainable and kid-friendly design can come together.

These specimens of the fungi world are both beautiful and strange.

The Nature Conservancy is teaching New Yorkers about the protective natural ecosystems in the city

Not in the ocean. Below it.

He started an institute for making the world more playful and loving.

Although heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the US, many don't recognize the symptoms of a heart attack.

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.

A visit to a Sri Lankan herb and spice garden reveals a rich history of trade and alternative medicine.

We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.

Looking beyond traditional recyclables and the "blue bin", here are some of the organizations and companies seeking to redefine what we consider trash with alternative recycling initiatives and methods of reuse.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

The Open Sesame documentary examines the importance of open source seeds.

New York's skyline is getting greener and a whole lot more productive too.

We are going to need a new term that binds them all together. A lecture in 20 slides.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

lamar5292 has an idea for getting Haitians green housing: So how do you provide quick permanent safe housing that is also green in a situation like that? My suggestion is to take all the countries excess shipping containers to Haiti to be converted

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Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

Domes are tough. Here is a design that tries to make them comfortable. Does it live up to its billing?

The tiny house movement goes to the dogs with this $30,000 dream house.

This man wants to prove a point about rising global carbon dioxide levels by locking himself inside this DIY greenhouse for the next three days.

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.

Where have I seen this movie before?

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

Preserving fisheries is crucial. But one fisherman argues that regulation can do more harm than good, and that fishing communities used to regulate themselves.

The Norwegian Consumer Authority thinks the fast fashion company is misleading shoppers with its so-called Conscious Collection.

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

When you think Mexico, think biofuels (not just tequila). That's the message of OriginOil, a Los Angeles, California, company that's been contracted by the Mexican government to produce 1 percent of the

Bloom hoovers up harmful algae overgrowth from waterways and turns it into a flexible foam that can replace some petroleum-based products.

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region