Another signs that the poles are warming fast.

The 10,000 year-old ice shelf is half the size of Rhode Island; its collapse will add greatly to global sea level rise.

New discovery points to troubling signs for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which would prove catastrophic.

A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on a 3-month Antarctic expedition, supporting an international proposal for the world’s largest protected area.

Wind on the snow dunes of the Ross Ice Shelf causes a near-constant hum that is as beautiful as it is haunting.

In support of Greenpeace's Antarctic campaign, this may be the prettiest video I've ever watched – and the cause couldn't be more important.

The 9-mile long archipelago has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.

The 'mega cruises' are harming the environment, the island's aesthetic appeal, and local quality of life.

A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck.

Though only powering 75-100 homes at launch, the TidGen Cobscook Bay project, in Eastport, Maine, is slated to expand to ten times its initial size.

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

The iconic English office pod can be used for all kinds of things.

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.

Doing street improvements for pedestrians and cyclists increases sales by 30 percent. So why aren't cities doing it?

It is a real problem when designing energy efficient homes, and it seems that there is no good solution except ordering in.

More proof that some things never change.

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills."

Study assessed the effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on mice's desire to exercise and found that it makes them lazier.

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

Few other animals are known to be intrinsically motivated to assist others in need.

A Brooklyn dinner party turns "dumpster diving" into an informative meal.

The Brooklyn Journalist covered this project like a blanket, and looks at some of the detailed claims.

Architects are often late bloomers. Frank Gehry is in his prime at 79; Ralph Rapson died at his drafting board last year at 93.

Prague-based permaculture activist Sophia Novack is raising funds to create a free online resource that can teach 'anyone (including you!) ... how to grow an incredibly productive backyard permaculture garden.'

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design

Fed up with the disposable culture we all live in, two women from Portland, Oregon, founded a low-waste company to help the entire city cut back on plastic.

Barcelona wants to build an indoor carbon-neutral ski dome, taking waste energy from the gas industry to cool the hall and using renewable energy to power the rest... fact or fiction? Eco-friendly or greenwashing?

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

Victory gardens have come back ever bigger - garden magazines and home gardening tools sales are good even in this recessionary economy. The harvest season is almost upon us, and an extension of that urban victory garden idea is to glean the fruit (and

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

Don't just sit there, do something.

This modern and comfortable two-bed treehouse in Texas is open to guests.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.

Despite a steady decline in deforestation in recent years, the latest figure suggests indicate a change of direction.

The largest wildlife refuge in the United States needs protection from oil & gas development.

A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material resources required to manufacture and deliver it.

The graph says it all...

The map-makers are calling this the biggest change that they had to make since the breakup of the U.S.S.R.!

Actors Emma Thompson and Michelle Thrush are traveling with their daughters to the North Pole, as part of an Greenpeace campaign to create an international sanctuary in the Arctic.

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

More good news for the Arctic as the Obama administration pushes off further offshore drilling in Alaska.

Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.

This week, delegates are meeting to determine the fate of a proposal to protect part of the Arctic. This pianist's moving performance urges people to show their support.

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.

A rise in Arctic storms has more than doubled the number of winter warming events, which could greatly impede ice growth.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.