A Los Angeles 'raw-gan' simplifies the raw lifestyle and diet in a cookbook and DVD combo, 'Going Raw.'

If Food Day’s message is that it’s time for all America to eat real, an invitation-only feast in Times Square that the public could view but not attend migh

Whole Foods is donating a portion of the proceeds from wines to Whole Planet Foundation to fund poverty alleviation in areas where they source products.

Car giant Honda breaks ground on a net-zero energy home, a super-efficient demo home at UC Davis.

The Aston Martin e-Cygnet will be available in 2013.

Spinach is a powerhouse of nutrients. With recipes like these, there's no excuse not to reap the health benefits.

Learn how to eat for a healthy brain with these 10 foods and beverages that boost brainpower.

The yoga clothing giant is recalling the pants because they're too sheer.

From wrestler Diamond Dallas Page to the New York Giants, these sun-saluting stars may surprise you.

A simple arrangement of meaningful things can help us find inspiration in our daily lives.

An environmental group obtains emails that it says show "bias and complicity" in a government review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

A striking infographic demonstrates the latent power of Big Solar in the United States. A powerful image from the Irish Sea illustrates the staggering scale of

Can something as subjective as happiness be measured by a formula?

Cannon Beach is building the first tsunami evacuation center, a city hall that can also serve as a shelter.

X- and Y-shaped ocean waves that are often seen at beaches may help explain why tsunamis can be so devastating, researchers say.

This century's deadly tsunamis kicked off an intense search for buried clues to prehistoric killer waves along Alaska's southern shores.

A powerful earthquake in Alaska sent towering waves up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall crashing down on Hawaii about 500 years ago

The Rainforest Alliance's new video suggests what it would be like if the environmental consequences of your food choices happened in your own backyard.

Pluto's moons are even stranger and more intriguing than scientists imagined, a new study reveals.

Here are five things researchers can learn about Earth by studying the dwarf planet Pluto.

Scientists are stunned at the incredible new images of the surface of Pluto, its largest moon Charon and its farthest-flung moon Hydra.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Habitat for Humanity constructs a prefab-hybrid home that incorporates various future-t

Thar she grows! The first three model homes at Grow Community, a net-zero energy development centered around gardening and low-impact modes of transportation, a

Turkey gradually became the centerpiece of the holiday, alongside the additions of regional favorites, to create the modern feast we know today.

If policing your child’s plate at a holiday dinner dampens the celebration, this one tip may be incredibly freeing for you and your children.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

Thanksgiving feasts and Christmas treats will be here soon, but being proactive can help you win the battle of the bulge.

The find is roughly 2 billion years older than any other known fungus fossil.

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that could push the date of human habitation in Australia back possibly as far as 80,000 years ago.

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

Neanderthals might be extinct, but their genes still live on inside of us.

The finding indicates that life on Earth began much earlier than previously thought.

It's called dendrochronology, the study of data culled from the growth patterns of trees. And it can tell us a lot.

The extinct cave bear Ursus spelaeus appears to have descended from a vegetarian line of bears.

Researchers uncover the remnants of lost continents hidden under the ice sheets of Antarctica.

A startling find in Wyoming radically changes our theories about the distant origins of our taxonomic order.

If dinosaurs had telescopes and had pointed them at Saturn, they might have seen a ringless world.

8 strange and surprising facts about the T. rex, king of the dinosaurs.

Rising carbon dioxide levels at the edge of space are apparently reducing the pull that Earth's atmosphere has on satellites and space junk, having effects on t

Carbon dioxide levels are now at 390.9 parts per million, well above what scientists consider the tipping point for the effects of climate change.

The U.S. energy sector is 'in the midst of a transformation,' according to a new report, thanks to the growing use of natural gas and renewable power sources.

This much CO2 hasn't filled the planet's atmosphere since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago — long before modern humans existed.

Reducing the flow of the greenhouse gases that spur global warming could prevent up to 3 million premature deaths annually.

U.S. federal budget woes are shrinking the monitoring network that tracks greenhouse gases such as methane.

The risk of 'severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts' is quickly rising worldwide, the draft report warns.

The latest World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin paints a grim picture for our environment.

Thanks to the combined technology of satellites and weather stations scattered around the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers can now keep tabs on the region's shi

Duct tape is the absolute darling of the do-it-yourself set; here are some novel ways to put it to use.

There's less paper in need of binding these day, so put this simple contraption to work with these clever applications.