From rare orchids to a flower that lives for just a few hours, these blooms are the pick of the crop.

The gridlock-relieving rapid transit project across Lake Washington is a world's first.

As the Florida Keys cleans up and dries out after Hurricane Irma, take a moment to recognize this 113-mile-long feat of American ingenuity.

BP is coming under criticism for buying 'gulf oil spill' search advertising on Google. Will the company's attempt to redirect online traffic backfire?

A new report from Climate Central finds that most of the overflow was caused by coastal flooding, which was made worse by rising sea levels.

Antarctica's melting glaciers launched so many icebergs into the ocean 14,600 years ago that sea level rose 6.5 feet in just 100 years.

One of the states most at risk from climate change has reportedly banned officials from using the phrase 'climate change.'

Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge is rich with wildlife and history — and it's under siege from the waters that surround it. And it's only to get worse.

An entire ecosystem living without light or oxygen flourishes beneath the ocean floor.

The stench of foul-smelling flowers attracts insects that aid in their pollination.

Long before modern countries like China and Dubai began making artificial islands, the Calusa people built a kingdom on seashells.

In addition to surreal garden installations, the Hampton Court Flower Show hosts talks and demonstrations focusing on environmental issues.

Wildlife has slowly but surely returned to the formerly foul tideway. Is swimming in the Thames next?

With an estimated price tag of nearly a billion dollars, the 7-mile bike highway would help alleviate London's traffic and air pollution woes.

The just-unveiled glass-bottomed walkways at Tower Bridge offer a dazzling new way to see the city. And, yes, ladies can wear skirts without fear.

In flood-prone Gloucestershire, England, dam-building semiaquatic Eurasian beavers make good neighbors.

Environmental artist Christo works his inimitable magic with 7,501 oil barrels in a new project at Hyde Park titled ' The London Mastaba.'

The vernal equinox marks a shift in seasons, and nothing says that better than flowers bursting into bloom.

Massive trees, towering over 250 feet, only flower once every 7 to 10 years.

New research finds that people who don't like music might have lower blood flow in certain parts of their brains.

Scientists, engineers and telecommunications officials are in the early planning stages for a seafloor fiber-optic cable that would span the Pacific Ocean, and

Researchers trace back the origin of all flowering plants to a single ancestor using a sophisticated data crunch.

The archaeological site is located a mere 900 feet off Manasota Key in Florida.

The wildfire in the Florida Everglades has spread to 32,000 acres, and officials are using all the resources they can to contain it.

The Danish capital's urban 'parkipelago' will eventually include a sauna, cafe and mussel farm.

You can watch Leo DiCaprio's "Before the Flood" free online.

Fairbanks will be the demo deployment site for BAT (Buoyant Altitude Turbine), an inflatable wind turbine floating 1,000 feet above the earth.

Chris Burley and Ei Ei Khin have an ambitious goal: Grow 1 million wildflowers to help threatened honeybee populations.

The apiarian artery is the buzziest infrastructure project in Scandinavia.

Did Japan hit the rare earth elements jackpot? Scientists have found undersea mud off the coast that could be packed with elements like yttrium, cerium and pras

Scenes of devastation along the state's Indian River Lagoon show hundreds of thousands of dead fish.

Neolithic humans in the Wadi Faynan region of southern Jordan may have polluted the river while first learning how to smelt.

Sewage in Mumbai's Thane Creek makes the city attractive to thousands of migrating flamingos, even though it's a turn-off for humans.

After 467 days in orbit and a ticker-tape parade, a special litte astronaut will live out its days at the National Air and Space Museum.

The modified-Boeing 747, known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here on April 10. The jumbo jetliner came in f

Four astronauts are spending 12 days underwater to prepare new methods for working in outer space. And they're Tweeting about it.

At a reservoir outside of Tokyo, water and electricity do indeed mix.

You might be familiar with floating wind turbines, but what about floating solar panels?

Punta Gorda, a sleepy Gulf Coast getaway north of Fort Myers, shines bright as Babcock Ranch, a solar-powered eco-town, attracts its first residents.

The creators of the original Flow Hive are back with a new model.

At the time of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the spring of 2010, computer models predicted that the 200 million gallons of crude oil pouring out of the gus

But environmental groups say oil is still coming ashore and more work needs to be done.

Five years later, scientists may have finally found up to 10 million gallons of missing oil from the 2010 BP spill.

Just like 'Jurassic Park,' except with flowers instead of dinosaurs.

Carefully managed fire is used as a tool to protect wildlands from invasive plants and other threats.

New guidelines limiting mowing along roadside strips help create wildlife corridors in the UK.

Researchers in the U.K. hope that prettying up fields with strips of wildflowers will attract pest-munching bugs.

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

Right now, we basically build cities in a way that worsens flooding events, but nature has solutions.

Which flowers are the most environmentally friendly option: Organic, local, fair trade or silk?