Researchers find that even just sleeping with a shirt that one's romantic partner has worn leads to improved slumber.

Indulging in a Western-style diet for 7 days impaired the brain function in healthy young people and made them want to overeat, researchers find.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is proposing a rate increase due to extreme drought having reduced their ability to ramp up hydroelectric generators in time for customers to turn on the bright kitchen lights and cook dinner - after 4:00PM. Only 6

"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the

Chris Yurista lives out of his backpack. He tells the BBC that "It's always nice to have a personal sense of home, but that aside - the internet has replaced my need for an address." He's got a job and moonlights as a DJ, couch-surfing in friends'

Bill Nye was the guy that said driving your car to the gym is literally insane - why not reclaim a piece of childhood through hooping?

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?

The happiness you feel in a shopping spree may feel as good as the happiness from helping someone, but gene expression reveals a dangerous difference: could shopping cause disease?

Whether you opt for 'Buy Nothing Day' or 'Small Business Saturday,' the journey toward sustainability begins with a single step.

This Friday, Patagonia encourages us to celebrate the clothes we have and the stories they tell.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

If a vertical farm fantasy is the best unbuilt project in the UK, then sustainable design is in worse trouble than I thought.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

The top how-to food stories can be summed up in one word: COMFORT.

It's a mix of speculative fiction and informed prediction. Which do you think is most plausible?

Some question if it is even possible.

It's a celebration of a technology that covers longer spans with less concrete and looks good, too. Here are some I have feasted on.

There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.

A new solar-power kit from BRIGHT Products is like the Swiss Army Knife of solar gadgets.

Trust the rock stars, or your doctor.

Why oceans, why now?

What do you do when there's no more carry-on room?

Cat lover? New plant parent? Fortune seeker? Traveler? We've got the perfect plant for all.

Yes, but first we need to develop a collective conscience when it comes to travel.

I was disappointed to see that Subaru, beloved of TreeHugger types, is on the wrong side of this issue.

The rock band won't be touring its newest album until it can figure out a greener way of doing it.

Because a single day of #OptOutside isn't enough for real action.

Loop's reusable packaging service is coming to brick-and-mortar stores in U.S., Canada, and France.

You probably already have most of the stuff you need.

With a renewed partnership between the fashion label and resale consigner The RealReal, McCartney is coaxing consumers into a circular economy.

COBE architects are turning charging time into quality time.

Just yesterday I joked seated at my neighborhood's dive-y, not-concerned-about-clean-food diner that the likely hormone-injected milk I stirred into my coffee might spur the growth of a third boob. It was a risk I was

Sometime within the last century, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation. Now, nearly a third of the world’s cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing the land’s inherent fertility.

Astronomers are stunned and stumped by the brightest light seen in 24 years of observations of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Don't forget to spend some time in nature! Let the 2019 US fall foliage forecast help.

Here's an easy way to reduce food waste and never buy commercial soup stock again.

These simple tricks add the depth and flavor that plant-based vegetable stock can sometimes be missing.

It's time for swift and immediate action to protect marine life from further devastation.

Mixing conservation with death care, a new start-up offers permanently protected memorial trees that solve a slew of problems.

The UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020.

With the first heatwave of the summer behind us, let's start thinking about how we can adapt ourselves to the heat, rather than just complaining about it or pushing it away via air conditioning.

Keeping our thermostats programmed at year-round comfortable temperatures could be affecting our health.

Learn how to transform your yard into a sanctuary for birds, bees, and other little critters.

Entice butterflies to stay, eat, mate and lay eggs in your garden with these plants and tips.

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Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.

Some houseplants love mist, others not so much. Here's what to know.

Carved pumpkins are susceptible to rot, but there are ways to stave it off.

Some plants help each other enormously, while others hinder their neighbors – use this cheat sheet to ensure harmony in the vegetable plot.

Think outside of the houseplant box with these unique ways to bring some green indoors.