The discovery of one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.

Made in New Zealand, this modern little house looks clean and bright inside and out.

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.

This week, Anishinaabe tribal members began riding horseback along the proposed route of a what could possibly become the largest tar sands pipeline in the United States.

Big risks evidently still promise big rewards.

Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.

We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up.

What does it take to get improved environmental coverage in the media?

Streetfilms shows how a road can in fact be many things, not just a place for cars.

Children. Alone in the forest. At night.

Everyone says we should do something, but nobody ever wants to pay the price.

Like a gadget from a superhero's gizmo-kit, two engineering students have invented a device to battle blazes with noise – water and toxic chemicals not required.

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.

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.

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

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

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

To cap off a week of black hole fever, the cosmic object has now been named by a language professor in Hawaii.

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

The new species endemic to the marine protected area expanded by Obama was named in honor of his efforts to protect and preserve the natural environment.

Earlier research found evidence of a wildlife wonderland at the disaster site, now the first camera study validates an abundance of wolves, boars, foxes and more.

Matt recently wrote Eat Like It's 1975 to Save the Planet: New Report Links Obesity, Energy Consumption & Climate Change, which said We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognize it as a

Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The

Leaving Boras takes us past a

IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.

An exhibit about the pioneering mid-century designers illustrates the innovative ideas that inspired their work.

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.

The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture.

My favorite day of the year is a shadow of its former self.

The plyscraper era has begun as Cross Laminated Timber towers start popping up everywhere.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and while some great progress has been made, there are still many rivers which are endangered, including one flowing through our nation's capital.

From its tiny source to the Houses of Parliament, here are glorious photos of the River Thames.

A beautiful video by photographer Pete McBride shows how this epic and ancient river is now the most endangered in the country.

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.

The River Thames has inspired artists throughout the ages; here's a modern take on it.

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done.

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.

Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start

New Environmental Protection Agency requirements for its Renewable Fuel Standards program have been released which raise an issue which has sat dormant for a little while: How to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of a

Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

It creates as much CO2 as a million transatlantic flights. Why isn't this a bigger deal?

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

Now, if only we could get US drivers out of their trucks.

Price is no longer the main obstacle. Lack of understanding might be.