If you're trying to stave off the mid-morning munchies, these foods will satisfy both your taste buds and your appetite.

Video: How these roly-poly, spineless worms are serving as role models for soft material robots.

Video: Getting enough shut-eye really matters for children, and those who are poor need it the most.

The Charlotte mayor's nomination to lead the Department of Transportation hints at a renewed White House focus on boosting public transit and urban walkability.

When most people hear poultry at home, they think of chickens, thanks to the current trend of urban cluckers. It turns out that there are a lot more options tha

There's one piece of good news from Japan: All the wind turbines survived the earthquake and are helping to power some regions of the country.

Work is completed on Brighton Waste House, proving 'there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place.'

Just try not to think about who — or what — might be watching as you settle in for the night.

Devil’s Den Spring in Florida is a premier diving spot hidden inside a sunken cavern.

Full moons can disturb your sleep, but it's the lunar cycle that's to blame, not the light.

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

4 free, short yoga videos. These videos, each less than 20 minutes, will keep you moving and toned, even if you have limited time to practice.

Try this routine to help your body fight off the coughs and colds going around this season.

Deep sea explorers capture video of a rare encounter with a piglet squid, so named because it appears to have a snout.

These volcanic seamounts are rich with life and are estimated to be at least 30 million years old, formed when Australia and Antarctica broke apart.

Seafloor-dwelling bacteria may prevent methane from reaching the atmosphere by eating it up.

This surprising discovery won't be enough to stop climate change, but it will help, researchers say.

The whole point of getting out into the natural world is to see, smell and hear the sounds of nature.

Unity College students settle into TerraHaus, the sustainability-focused Maine institution's new residence hall that's built to stringent, super-efficient Passi

The technologically advanced Stoosbahn ascends and descends over 2,000 feet in about four minutes.

If you're looking for a way to de-stress and relax, bath in the forest — or more specifically, take a walk through the woods.

Felines, both heroic and villainous, play prominent roles in these 9 whisker-heavy horror films.

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

When her concern about colony collapse disorder reached a peak, this writer put her deep, personal fear of bees aside. Sort of.

Now's the time to make that dream a reality. Here are 5 cold-season tips to prepare for your first spring with a bee hive.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

Raymond Wang, 17, won prestigious $75,000 award for engineering a system to make cabin air safer.

A newly unveiled firm's asteroid-mining plans may be ambitious, but they're not any crazier than some extractive operations already under way here on Earth, com

Deep Space Industries Inc. announced that it plans to harvest metals and water from asteroids within a decade.

On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tells TODAY that there's still work to be

Using a sample from the very riser pipe that the plume escaped from, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemist Christopher Reddy and his team ascertained tha

Nearly two years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster gushed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, tar balls from the spill still turn up on Alaba

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

More than 12 miles of Louisiana coast have been closed to fishing following the discovery of tar balls and other toxins.

Some of the long-term impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are on the psyches of the people who work there.

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

Recurrent sheens of oil in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill have baffled researchers.

Jason Alexander Byers uses an unusual material to make an environmental point.

Yoga nidra, also called sleep yoga, is a restorative style of yoga that looks (and feels) more like taking a nap than exercise.

Sheep provide us with meat, clothing and even scientific illumination, but how much do you know about them? Find out with this quiz.

OPT harnesses ocean power with some bright yellow buoys (VIDEO).

City lights keeping you awake? Put on an eco-friendly sleep mask and get a darker, deeper night's sleep.

If you suffer from specific conditions, you might want to look at changing the position you fall asleep in.

Blue light doesn't help you sleep, and you're exposed to a lot of it.

McDonald's adopts the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue ecolabel for its Filet-O-Fish. Will high demand for the sandwich create an overfishing problem?

Consumer Reports’ risk guide helps shoppers make informed decisions when buying fruits and vegetables.

Here's a quick look by the numbers at where we're in trouble on key environmental issues. I've borrowed a bit from the style of the Harper's Index, and a bit fr

It's yet one more benefit of living in the Google years.

This informative chart from Green America rates the candy companies on their commitment to avoiding child labor.

NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a "human-tended waypoint" near the far side of the moon — one that would embrace international partnerships