They may be convenient, but baby carrots — and what they represent — sure are wasteful.

Sprouted grains, legumes, nuts and vegetables are showing up on the store shelves. Here’s what you need to know for a basic understanding.

When fried, a new strain of seaweed has a strong bacon flavor and a ton of nutrition.

Dulse, a succulent red marine alga, is highly nutritious, fast-growing — and supposedly tastes like bacon when fried. The Internet weighs in...

Koji, a fungus called Aspergillus oryzae, has been essential to Japanese cooking for centuries, and now it's catching on in the U.S.

RAN targets Tar Sands oil with dramatic banner at Niagra Falls urging President Obama to 'just say no' to dirty oil.

Pipeline spills aren't good for the environment and they aren't good for politics. They are especially bad for business.

Here are some arguments to consider if we plant to get more oil from our neighbors to the North.

Actor and environmentalist says President stood up to Big Oil by delaying project and calling for more environmental reviews.

The State Department has denied the proposed oil pipeline from Canada, heading off a congressionally mandated deadline of Feb. 21.

Climate activist Bill McKibben says now is the time for the Obama administration to stand up to the richest industry on Earth.

But protecting your skin and the reefs is possible.

New research from a team of U.K. scientists reveals that humpback whales share songs during their migratory travels in the South Pacific.

The Malawian inventor who built a windmill at the age of 14 stopped in last night for a visit with the Daily Show's Jon Stewart.

Video: President visits a wind turbine blade manufacturing plant in Iowa and discusses how the administration's clean energy investments are creating jobs and i

Anyone can jump off a building or a cliff. It takes a real green adrenaline junkie to hurl himself off a wind turbine.

Researchers have developed an interactive tool that uses bat calls and local environmental conditions to help wind farms reduce bat fatalities while still runni

Alec Baldwin champions both renewable energy and the preservation of East Hampton, N.Y., with equal passion. So how will things play out now that the actor has

Need holiday cheer? Call Dial-a-Carol 24/7 for a festive boost.

Along with a years-long renaissance of records, some are turning away from collecting music digitally.

Weary animals at elephant sanctuary in Thailand relax as volunteer plays classical piano music in the forest.

He may not have won an Oscar, but the director of "Gasland" isn’t backing off the natural gas industry.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will recommend ending a ban on most horizontal drilling, according to reports. Here are three quick things to consider about the plan.

In his State of the Union speech, Obama unveils plans to expand U.S. oil and gas production, but vows not to 'walk away from the promise of clean energy.'

The president discussed the nation's growing clean energy economy at a Daimler facility in North Carolina.

The new Artists Against Fracking makes a compelling case against opening up New York state to natural gas drilling. It's fuzzier about the energy sources that c

Pop star and social media powerhouse Lady Gaga encourages her millions of fans to support Yoko Ono's Artists Against Fracking campaign in New York.

The Coast Guard is investigating a proposal to ship hydraulic fracturing 'fracking' wastewater on the Ohio River.

Two Pennsylvania children, ages 7 and 10 have been permanently banned from talking about fracking.

Researchers at Princeton recently studied the question of whether abandoned gas & oil well are leaking methane into the atmosphere.

An odd, fruity equation provides perspective on the amount of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific.

Meet Chris Robinson, an average California dad who just happens to be constructing a 22-foot-long tsunami escape pod out of plywood in his backyard.

Toy giant freezes purchases from supplier accused of deforestation.

An inside look at the 4-year effort to restore Atlanta's Fernbank Forest, a 65-acre forest within the city.

The Miami Herald profiles Cabin Fever, a Little Haiti-based prefab firm specializing in versatile and affordable micro-dwellings that have a growing fanbase acr

New York City unveils a disaster housing plan centered around retrofitted shipping containers that boast interiors that are like 'CB2 meets Motel 6' and that ar

In Japan, militantly unfussy retailer Muji sells much more than stationery, travel pillows and slippers.

Vipp, the venerable purveyor of high-end trash bins, gets into the prefab vacation home business.

In a marriage of modular building and adaptive reuse, one Spanish developer has taken to the rooftops.

Units in Dubai's wind- and solar-powered Dynamic Tower will sell for $30M — Dramamine not included.

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

The 50,000-year-old, perfectly preserved forest is showcased like never before in a newly released documentary.

In A.D. 536, a volcanic eruption sent a thick haze into the air that blocked the sun over Europe, the Middle East and some of Asia for 18 months.

This supposed moon rock is actually an Earth rock. It was likely jettisoned from our planet ages ago, eventually crashing into the moon.

Anjouan is an island between Africa and Madagascar littered with sedimentary rocks called quartzite that don't belong there. Are they a chunk of Gondwana?

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

We hear a lot about carbon dioxide when we talk about climate change, but sometimes here's why too much CO2 in the atmosphere is a bad thing.

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

A greenhouse gas that is thought to have a potent impact on global warming was detected in trace amounts in the atmosphere.

The Swedish home furnishings giant plans to offer 'lower carbon alternatives' to the signature pork and beef meatballs sold at its in-store cafes.