From its tiny source to the Houses of Parliament, here are glorious photos of the River Thames.

Research reveals that rivers deliver up to 4 million metric tons of plastic debris to the sea every year, with up to 95% coming from just 10 of them.

Commercial kitchens are really expensive to build. Why not share?

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.

Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The

Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.

They do this so well in Montreal.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

We have to slow down and smell the coffee, and it might actually be fun.

Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming Update: Karin has reported on this initiative before under Fish Farming Moves to the Condos, and Lloyd also covered it under the Future of Food. Great to see it still

Residents in southern Maryland have long felt like they live in an 'energy sacrifice zone.' They already have a nuclear power plant and now are trying to stop a liquid natural gas port.

Green roofs, living walls, vertical farms are all part of a new living architecture.

Green roofs are wonderful things and lovely to look at, but there are other factors in play here.

Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built

This simple idea could change how governments deal with the environment.

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how

You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

The BMW i8 is now in production, and final i8 details have just been unveiled.

Well, as much as you can humanize a $136,000 sports car.

CFL bulbs, or compact fluorescent light bulbs: energy savings Commonly referred to as CFLs, compact fluorescent lamps or compact fluorescent light bulbs, the energy-saving bulbs have escaped the stereotype of buzzing, flickery, washed-out lights to

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

The last of these dog-like animals, also known as Tasmanian tigers, was thought to have died in 1936. But might they still be lurking elusively in the wild?

The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.

The wind has never been this beautiful...

That's more underwater than usual.

New research calculates how individual CO2 emissions affect the Arctic's shrinking summer sea ice.

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

By analyzing a 364-meter ice core, researchers have been able to go back in time and track the freezing and melting cycles of Antarctica's peninsula.

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.

A gigatonne of ice here, a gigatonne of ice there... Soon enough we're talking about a meaningful quantity!

Two steps forward, one step back for Japan. The rest of the world has moved on from whaling, why couldn't they do too?

We don't hear about the ozone layer as much as we used to anymore, but that doesn't mean that the problem has been solved.

This looks a bit like the Hoth rebel station in Return of the Jedi...

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.