The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces

Environmentalists marched in Istanbul to demand solutions to climate change (L) while members of Greenpeace (R) face jail time for protesting plans to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant. Photos: 350.org (L), Greenpeace Akdeniz

What happens when you find bees have made your home into their hive? You call Mike 'The Bee Guy' and document it their removal.

In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are

On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the

The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?

...or does this augur the final breakdown of civilization?

Switching from fossil fuel powered cars could save 45,000 lives per year and on its own almost solve climate change

Using someone else's tools and space has forced me to adjust my approach to cooking.

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

Authorities in Ohio are warning residents to remain inside their houses after dozens of exotic animals had apparently broken free of an area wildlife farm and taken to the streets and highways. Police haven't said exactly

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house. Evidently neither could the US Green

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

Here is an architect who knows how to get people on their feet.

Architect Tamir Addadi squeezes a lot into a very small space

Not only did he have a startlingly brilliant brain for physics, but Stephen Hawking had a pretty good knack for life as well.

An astronaut-eye's view of Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station shows why everyone is kind of freaking out.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.

A man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.

We used to be able to justify burning a bit of fossil gas, but we cannot anymore.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000

Northern Arizona University student from a range of departments built the charging station piece-by-piece to educate fellow students on the energy used by their gadgets.

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.

It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.

It's the first plant plant of its kind in the states that generates electricity from the temperature differences in the ocean.

More pedestrians are getting killed in the roads. Are their phones really the reason?

As if to say 'sorry,' Kilauea softens its fury by tossing shimmery green olivine to the humble humans below.

More than two years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, the situation is worse than ever.

The technology turns the problem of nuclear waste into a source of safe nuclear energy.

Can a rare metal travel without a passport?

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.

And a really nice solar decathlon winner.