So, last week approximately 7,500 songbirds flew into a giant flame and died. Maybe this is a good time to talk about the wastefulness and damage caused by natural gas flaring?

Is American consumerism innate, or manufactured?

This stair does it all: it's a connector, a partition, a bench, a counter and a concealer of clutter.

Researchers studying fossil clams in Florida believe they found the souvenirs of an ancient meteorite.

Here's what to know about Lynx rufus, the solitary wildcat that roams North America.

Dean Kamen is the kind of inventor we don't imagine exists anymore—a fervent polymath like Thomas Edison. Best known as the creator of the Segway, Kamen is also responsible for major breakthroughs in clean energy, water purification, prosthetics,

With his planes, helicopters, and other fuel-hungry pets, Dean Kamen admits that he takes a lot out of the world. This just means that, in keeping with his immigrant grandfather's advice, he has to put more back in. In the second part of our

From saucy to the divine, the origins of some flower names add even more to the loveliness of their blooms.

As we recognize African American History Month, it is important to highlight a lesser known part of this history - the legacy of forest ownership among the black community, and the leaders who are working to preserve it.

Oh, the farmer and the oilman should be friends. But they are fighting over ethanol.

But is that a bad thing?

Good news from Gabon: Conservation efforts in Batéké Plateau National Park are rewarded with a sighting of an animal thought to have disappeared from the region.

Visitors to this regional park can rent this minimalist cabin in the woods.

Situated in a nature reserve along the Dutch coast, this unique structure not only serves as an observation post, it also provides extra bird habitats.

Select zoos are enticing green families with healthier treats and recycled crafts this Halloween

Spanish collective Basurama arrived in Niamey, Niger, to assist locals in the construction of new leisure spaces with local, low cost materials.

Of all of Niemeyer's impressive works, the 1960s Copan building in Sao Paulo is the one speaking directly to contemporary urban trends.

So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on how you can get up to

On the Mouzon scale of 1 to 10 for walkability, this intersection gets -10.

A coastal grizzly bear pauses in its fishing efforts to pose for a group of photographers watching nearby.

Ryan North points out that unlike most games, this one is lethal

You don't need to spend money to play Chinese checkers, especially if you've got vengeance in your heart.

The sharing economy is built on reputation. So is online social gaming. Now the two are coming together.

Getting people out of cars and rebuilding our main streets is not going to be easy, and cannot be oversimplified.

Collins dictionary lexicographers observed a 100-fold increase in its usage in 2019.

Discover the miniature, magical world of tide pools -- and beat the heat -- by heading to North America's coastlines.

A new paper compares eggs, dairy, poultry, beef and pork to determine which has the biggest environmental impact.

Recommendations to eat less meat for environmental reasons won’t be included in the final 2015 dietary guidelines.

And then they yell at cyclists for not following the rules.

Ten years after Vancouver's Burrard Street Bridge bike lanes opened, it is no longer controversial.

It calls for more support of bikes, walking and transit, banning ICE-powered cars sooner.

Way more people get traumatic injuries in the shower than they do on bikes, but almost nobody takes the most basic safety precautions.

Student activism nationwide flies in the face of a recent study claiming young Americans don't care about the environment.

From campus gardens to intensive recycling, Sierra magazine's annual list gives a tip of the hat to the nation's most sustainable schools.

Sierra magazine released its 2012 Cool Schools list, and UC Davis took #1 - let's learn more about them.

This summer, students are spending 8 weeks conserving nature in hands-on environmental internships in NY and Philadelphia for The Nature Conservancy’s Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities initiative.

What these cars are capable of will come as no surprise to EV fans, but winning the King of the Mountain title puts another feather in the EV cap

Rob Cotter used to build expensive sports cars. Now he makes vehicles that are much, much cooler.

This super-plant has been misunderstood for too long.

A green, sustainable future awaits us all as the United Nations proposal for sustainable development becomes the law of the land.

It's a surprisingly well-rounded and thorough view of sustainability that shouldn't be limited to boy scouts.

The new digital billboards taking over our cities bring a whole new set of problems. That's why we need these orgs.

Americans don't walk and stop and cafés or take vacations. That's why they get to drive $75,000 plug-in hybrids.

It's another nail in the coffin for these monstrous purveyors of industrial tourism.

Even multi-millionaire pro-basketball players can ride bikes to commute to work!

Seniors residence so green and attractive that the government and nonprofits should jump up and say "We built it!"

There's a lot to learn from making the same recipe over and over (and over and over....)

In this age of consumerism, particularly around the holiday season, sometimes its easy to forget that the things we've used the longest often have the most value to us -- but the virtues of reuse just seem come naturally to some

I have to admit I'm a bit the green grinch of the family: I really can't stand all the mindless consumption over the holidays, and I'm always pushing the buy nothing concept. I don't even have a Christmas tree.

Why now, more than ever, all new building should be Passive House.