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

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

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.'

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

The Finns have a word for drinking alone at home in your underwear. What other cool foreign food words don't we have?

Animals use their senses to detect other animals, communicate and do some wild things. Can you identify the super senses of these animals?

Ubiquitous Mardi Gras beads can be made of other things: Biodegradable seed bombs, anyone?

Think bird-watching is boring? It's not if you visit these 10 destinations during bird migration season.

Even though native bees don't produce honey, they're incredibly important, says author Paige Embry. She explains how to help them in "Our Native Bees."

Trust Chanie Kirschner when she says you can't go wrong with flowers and chocolate -- organic or free trade, of course.

There are lots of causes for sleepless nights, but it helps to know if it's insomnia or not. Thankfully, there are natural ways to get back on track.

In honor of Cesar Chavez Day, here are 10 interesting facts about the civil rights activist.

State legislators in Colorado are working to make it legal for residents to harvest rainwater for irrigation.

This huge wetland ecosystem is running out of freshwater, and conservation efforts may not be moving fast enough.

Emoji can add emotion and intent to emails and texts, but can they ever become their own language?

Find out who won a year's worth of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and how contest promoted the benefits of fair trade.

New research suggests long, happy marriages may be in the genes.

A simple parenting technique helps Inuit children learn to control anger at an early age.

Raising a child is an expensive undertaking, and new parents can get a severe case of sticker shock even before they've left the maternity ward.

Should we be worried, or is it OK to keep drinking (for now)?

People in France have been reporting sightings of bright, hungry predatory worms since 1999.

From animals and architecture to treasures and wild weather, these are the shows we’ll be watching this month.

Media mogul offers to lobby at no charge in support of wind power.

As the U.S. struggles with an opioid epidemic, efforts like National Prescription Take Back Day are more valuable than ever.

To solve organ shortages, some places are making it the norm to have people opt out of organ donation.

A study in Philadelphia finds that transforming vacant lots into green spaces has a beneficial impact on mood and wellbeing, particularly in low-income areas.

Did you know that rounder leaves have greater daily light interception and carbon gain? Here's how and why plants change the shape of their leaves.

Just ask Jenna and Guillaume, who quit their 9-to-5 jobs to pursue their dream of touring North America in a custom-built tiny house.

Sky City was supposed to be 220 stories and this building was supposed to be 97 stories; but there's more to building than just technical innovation.

England is poised to introduce a sweeping ban on the import of endangered animal parts, including those from "trophy" kills.

Have a stocking to stuff before December 25? Consider these useful and beautiful gifts — most eco-friendly and/or from small designers — for $25 and under.

There are a number of reasons our houses are getting bigger, and it's a real problem.

Talk about blowing things way out of proportion.

It is one thing to go cashless, and it is altogether another thing to have no money.

What started out as a free, legal music website (with optional tipping), has added free downloadable books to its offerings, including cookbooks.

American workers either don't get paid vacation days, or they are afraid to use them.

John Addison says finding your inner calm will get you more than halfway there. His new book shows you how.

Plan on roughing it as part of the Great American Backyard Campout later this month? Don't leave behind your flask, flashlight.

Here are some simple ways to have a more eco-friendly Christmas.

Parasitic sea lice have become resistant to pesticides that used to control infestations in salmon farms around the world.

Say it ain't so, Amy Poehler.

Social marine mammals provide a 'unique and striking parallel' to our own species, scientists say.

As Tracy Jordan famously said, 'Live every week like it's Shark Week.'

Genetic relics from a 'ghost population' of red wolves seem to live on in these coyote-like creatures.

Bees often flit around with yellow saddlebags, called pollen baskets, hanging from their hind legs.

Scientists find the gene that gives bumblebees their unique patterns — and the rest of us fair warning.

A swarm of grasshoppers in Las Vegas is so big it shows up on weather radar.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Linkin Park, Don Cheadle, and Sergio Marone are all judges in the Date with History contest, which will send one young visionary to address t

Researchers may have finally figured out what kind of drugs Vikings were on as they headed into battle in a blood-thirsty state known as berserkergan.