As more doctors use food as a medical tool, health care providers are making nutritious options more readily available — even farmers markets.

Alexandra Cousteau searches for the lost creeks that now flow under Toronto roadways.

The U.S. Energy Department wants you to save green by painting your roof white -- as long as it doesn't make your neighbors see red.

Banks won't touch them they are so financially risky. So why does Obama want U.S. taxpayers to fund nuclear plants when there is a 50% chance they will fail?

Administration stimulus spending has jump-started an unstoppable EV revolution, says President Obama. Because of the Recovery Act, the cars will plummet in cost

Solyndra's public and highly controversial bankruptcy filing is affecting other solar projects.

A new analysis reveals that greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 surpassed even the worst-case scenario envisioned by scientists four years ago.

Republicans in Congress have delayed part of a 2007 law that would require U.S. light bulbs to be more energy-efficient, scoring a symbolic victory.

President Obama's proposed budget may be a longshot in Congress, but it still offers a preview of what he hopes to accomplish if re-elected this fall.

Solyndra's 2011 bankruptcy cast a shadow over the U.S. solar power sector, but ongoing growth in the past year may indicate it was only a partial eclipse.

The MIT physicist is already steeped in Beltway politics, but his enthusiasm for nuclear power and natural gas worries some environmental advocates.

Luxury automaker Fisker has officially missed a $10 million payment to the Department of Energy. Is a bankruptcy filing next?

In his first week on the job, new U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz makes it clear he sees 'no ambiguity' about the scientific consensus on global warming.

Trapped, starving dog is rescued weeks after Hurricane Dorian barreled through the Bahamas.

Suet is a high-calorie source of easily digestible food for birds, and making it couldn't be easier.

You can create a haven for birds and other creatures by with native plants — and one very handy tool.

In anticipation of Obama's visit to Canada, environmentalists circulate petition to stop 'dirty oil.'

One of the cleanest places in your home may actually be one of the dirtiest, according to a study that suggests one in five showerheads spews out bacteria.

The hip Scandinavian superstore becomes the latest company affected by the broadening scandal.

See how much plastic you can keep out of landfills if you start recycling in the bathroom today!

A fleeting ban on the ubiquitous landfill-clogger is overturned by a Manhattan judge.

Meanwhile in England, shopping basket theft is on the rise.

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... if it's in New Orleans, it's just a Black Hawk helicopter airdropping old Christmas trees.

Onward Bag is landfill-skirting design at its most ingenious.

This is not a tempest in a disposable teacup, but a very big problem.

Japanese scientists have found a special bacteria, Ideonella sakainesis, that likes to eat polyethylene terephthalate, better known as PET.

If you want paper or plastic in NYC, plan on sharing a few more nickels. The fee goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2016.

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where 810,000 homes are heated by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: It needs more fuel.

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Blake McFarland says he just wants to make cool things.

Manufacturing and distribution of plastic shopping bags come with steep fines and serious jail time in the East African nation.

A large portion of the clothing you donate ends up in the landfill. Here's why — and what you can do about it.

Some business groups oppose plastic straw bans because they see it as excessive regulation, but other groups have more practical issues with the bans.

A massive study finds that no research tool can predict the outcome of a human life.

A study finds that a tomato's cancer-fighting properties are reduced when consumed with iron-rich food.

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Eating food for healthy hair isn't a new, but did you know that hair problems like thinning or going prematurely gray can be prevented with food?

Ever since Michael Cardenaz saved a hummingbird, the little bird keeps coming back to visit him.

The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker is showing up in some interesting places in the South as it makes a comeback.

Thanks to an abundance of beech seeds, so far this year 150 orange-fronted parakeet chicks have been born in the wild in New Zealand.

Rescue workers swooped in and saved nearly 100 baby birds when tree in Oakland split and started to topple.

The only endemic duck remaining on the Hawaiian islands is back from the brink of genetic extinction.

BIrds and bats don't seem to rely on their gut bacteria for the same things we do.

A massive bald eagle is filmed in slow motion taking off from a street in Melrose, near Boston.

Scientists have found a new influenza virus that infects bats. But don't pull out the hand sanitizer leftover from the H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic just yet. Wh

While research on the lab-altered H5N1 virus that can be transmitted between mammals in laboratories is put on hold, scientists are debating how to balance bios

After a mild round last year, flu season is off to an early start this year with cases jumping in 5 Southern states, says the Centers for Disease Control and Pr

The best way to protect yourself against the flu is to get the flu shot, and the best time for that is before the flu season starts.

The government released a framework to determine to fund research that could create a version of the bird flu virus that could infect by airborne droplets.

A brand new flu virus has been found in Peruvian bats.

Soak in the cuteness of this baby koala after her first checkup at the San Diego Zoo.