University of North Texas has build a LEED Platinum stadium to be the envy of other college campuses.

College students make waves for clean energy at IU, UK basketball games.

Student activism nationwide flies in the face of a recent study claiming young Americans don't care about the environment.

Students organize a massive call-in to demand the school transition away from coal.

The Post-Landfill Action Network, launched at the University of New Hampshire, challenges campuses across the continent to start tackling waste seriously.

This summer, students are spending 8 weeks conserving nature in hands-on environmental internships in NY and Philadelphia for The Nature Conservancy’s Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities initiative.

Former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims sets out a sensible guide for why and how American parenting needs to change, if we truly want our kids to do well in life.

Food insecurity is a very real problem for many Americans, but who knew that it affected so many college students, too?

A new study has found that sleep disturbances have a greater effect on academic performance than anxiety, depression, binge-drinking, and marijuana use.

From boosting focus and cleaning the air to improving wellness in general, these easy indoor plants are a great addition to dorm decor.

Emily Atkin blames the President, but everybody who digs coal is going bankrupt. It's bigger and deeper.

But the builders and the realtors are fighting sprinkler laws across the country.

It has become a familiar pattern. A natural disaster occurs and we can't help but wonder how it may have been influenced by climate change. Here's a look at how the Colorado rains and flood were connected to global warming.

The Mountain Pine Beetle is getting more press because of the havoc it is causing in the Southern Rocky Mountains, but the Spruce Beetle has the potential to be equally or even more devastating in Colorado.

Another phase of the wonderful Green Lane Project has just been announced, and PeopleForBikes has taken the opportunity to highlight biking and protected bike lane growth in the US through a new video.

Recycled aluminum and silver get another shot at becoming beautiful with this handmade collection, created with Japanese origami papers.

This beautiful area near Salida, Colorado, could become the next national monument, with your help.

Andrew Michler figures it out in his own home in Colorado.

EPA to blame for the catastrophe on the Animas.

Another good reason to move to Colorado.

In a ghost town in the one of the coldest places in the US, lone resident Billy Barr has spent 4 decades recording snowfall … to the enormous delight of scientists.

Ever wondered what it's like to live in a renovated van? Here is one company that rents DIY van conversions out.

The newfound fossils shed light on the early evolution of one of the planet’s most mysterious amphibians.

Designing kitchen ventilation that works in really tight houses seems almost impossible.

Another year down the drain: From pee-powered generators to pigeons that shit soap, it's been quite a year for toilet-related stories. Here are some of our favorites.

This simple Australian design has some interesting features and benefits.

A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society.

Urine for a surprise as Alex Wilson concludes that urine collection beats composting. I was, because they are not mutually exclusive.

Put your poop to work; it's fuel for a biological furnace.

This is a very clever and clean alternative toilet. Unfortunately, it shrink-wraps your poop in foil and sends it to landfill.

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.

Here's the hot poop on a toilet with a conveyor belt to move the stuff out of sight, out of mind.

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a

South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.

A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more.

Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.

This should take the wind out of the "all turbines are evil" crowd's sails.

When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right.

While in Mongolia for World Environment Day, I toured the Salkhit Wind Farm.

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieve a major breakthrough on the path to the dream of fusion as a clean energy source