From helping with dementia to prehypertension and chronic pain, these lifestyle changes could help you hop off the medication merry-go-round.

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

Knitted woollens should never get tossed until you've tried to repair them. Thanks to online tutorials, it's not as hard as it seems.

These lovingly photographed, colourful rowhouses are what's left after all the neigbouring ones have been demolished.

An architectural tradition dating to the 9th century, Iceland's turf houses are an enduring inspiration.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

This ambitious goal is all the more remarkable because NIPSCO is currently 65% coal dependent.

We are by no means helpless in the face of climate change.

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?

If you can't beat 'em, ship 'em. The state of Illinois is spending $2 million to ship invasive Asian carp back to China, where they're considered a delicacy. In Illinois, and the Great Lakes region, they're

This year, Gandhi's birthday will be marked by a national crackdown on six specific plastic items.

It's another national monument established by Obama and threatened by Trump.

New research finds that normal sleep may be protective against early death for people with certain health risks.

A child experiencing an asthma attack is admitted to the hospital every 20 minutes.

Things don't quite work as they are supposed to when people stand up.

This beautiful product, made in the U.S. from sustainable and recycled materials, is my smartest office purchase to date.

Our reviewer rises to the occasion.

It's all a facade, as architects compete to see who can design the ugliest exterior.

Archigram’s Plug-in City meets 3D Printing

Where the words and appeals of those indigenous tribes destined to be displaced by the dam had failed, nearly two-hundred native Amazonians have now gathered in a last ditch effort to protect their homeland using their bodies.

Those struck by Cupid's arrow are expected to spend $27.4 billion this year, up 32 percent from last year’s record $20.7 billion.

Activists risk arrest in an effort to prevent slow oil drilling exploration in the Arctic.

Here's a lovely renovation using the healthiest materials, and as few of them as possible.

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?

Two misfortunate advertising campaigns from Argentina use polar bears and tackiness to promote air conditioning.

An article in the latest issue of the journal Current Science raises serious questions about the long-term viability of genetically-modified Bt cotton to actually do what it's intended to do, increase pest resistance.

Though cotton yields initially doubled when GM cotton began being planted a decade ago, in the past six years yields have failed to increase even though planting has markedly increased.

TreeHugger just keeps on having to eat its hat with these guys.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

Solar power has grown up, and it's ready to blow up.

In Utah, birds plunge to their death after storms make parking lots look like ponds. Thwack. Another reason for less pavement?

In a victory for Berta Cáceres' campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.

CEO John Holland-Kaye expects to be taken up on this offer within the next 12 years.

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."

This very easy trick gives shoppers a quick way to grasp the good, the bad, and the ugly in packaged food.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

Using an age-old method to cool the air, this terracotta "cold pot" could be an energy-efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional air conditioners.

Plastic pollution doesn't just kill fish. It kills people too.

You are not alone. Even when you are...

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the

The United Nations established the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in 1994 – the day is observed every year on August 9.

Another door has closed for Western nations hoping to dump their trash overseas. Maybe it's time for another model?

This small cat species is native to South America.

Access to affordable capital is one of the biggest challenges for expanding a young industry. For solar in Africa, crowdfunding is helping to change that

Modern building codes and zoning regulations, while helping to set safety standards that can save lives, can also serve as big barriers to building small, sensible, and affordable dwellings with alternative materials and techniques.

The mockery of the official meeting overshadows everything around it. Can we start thinking about what are we paying our 'representatives' for?

The latest urban intervention to celebrate the city's status as European Capital of Culture is an unusual film venue for pedestrians.