Loopholes in the Montreal Protocol may need to be tightened, researchers say.

Just like 'Jurassic Park,' except with flowers instead of dinosaurs.

The crest-tailed mulgara was once a common sight in New South Wales deserts before other predators edged it out of the habitat.

Researchers discovered a Chelonoidis phantasticus giant tortoise on Fernandina Island. The last time this tortoise was seen was 1906.

Thousands of pounds of moldy cardigans and unsellable denim shorts are being burned in lieu of oil and coal at Västerås near Stockholm.

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue light-emitting diode.

The well was uncovered in the basement of an old London building that was also used as a 'Harry Potter' set.

Still don't have organic, fair trade sweets for the trick and treaters in your neighborhood? These discounts make eco-ethical candy more affordable.

A slew of coupon and gift certificate sites offer discounts to sustainable restaurants, but sometimes you have to do your homework.

Following a 3-week stint, the very big bunnies will hop to other cities.

The Rolling Stones keyboardist and MNN co-founder sheds light on the band's new single, which includes a reference to hydraulic fracturing, aka 'fracking.'

Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum do their part.

Gold Rush? More like cold rush! The cast and crew of the miniseries reveal how they battled extreme weather to bring this epic tale to the screen.

Scientists in Singapore have concocted a drug cocktail that can extend an animal's lifespan twofold.

One blogger's perspective on the recent 'success' of Wisconsin's carbon capture pilot program.

Complaints of sidewalk excrement have become so frequent that the city has established a team dedicated to clearing away number twos.

The U.S. Green Building Council's annual conference and expo will be held in San Francisco, California.

This California hotel that our food blogger stayed goes beyond LEED certification in its sustainability initiatives.

This isn't your grandfather's vegetation-topped, solar-powered, vegan pulled pork sandwich-selling football stadium.

The palatial Beaux-Arts beauty completed in 1915 is named the oldest LEED Platinum building.

The intricacies of soil biodiversity may offer scientists insights into how species — animals and plants — can survive global warming.

This middle-of-nowhere cave may have never been seen by humans.

Polio could be wiped out by 2018, but Gates says it will require investment and hard work.

The elusive Bahama nuthatch was found in limited numbers on the island Grand Bahama amid concerns it had been wiped out in 2016.

The newly identified species may already be at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, researchers report.

A new study shows that share prices increase slightly after a carbon disclosure is made.

Feel free to leave your heart in San Francisco, but don't forget to drop those old boxer shorts and blouses in one of the city's new textile recycling bins.

A list of tips and sources of finding deeply discounted and free cookbooks for Kindle.

What started out as a free, legal music website (with optional tipping), has added free downloadable books to its offerings, including cookbooks.

Instead of running errands, Tom Wagg used his one-week internship to earn a place in history.

In this video, the author and real-food advocate talks about why the farm bill should matter to anyone who cares about food.

Effects of the fiscal cliff deal on food policy

Tim Hawking says he added swear words to his dad's speech software and used his wheelchair as a go-kart.

A new study introduces 18 previously unknown spider species that look remarkably like pelicans.

Dubbed the 'flying bulldog,' this extremely rare bee has been lost to science since 1981.

The discovery of two large lakes hidden beneath Greenland's ice suggests that climate change now cuts all the way to the bottom of the ice sheet.

California's City By the Bay has dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions by switching to a mostly hybrid taxi fleet. It's a model for the rest of the country.

Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher announced on July 4 that they are more than 99 percent sure they've found a new, and heavy, boson particle, that

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

Here's a look at 10 newly identified, and exceptionally strange, animals, both living and extinct discovered in 2015.

You've heard of cat cafes, but this might be taking things too far...

Finding sugars in meteorites adds a new twist to theories of how life arose on Earth.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a monster black hole larger than thought possible.

The unusually close trifecta of black holes will likely merge into one giant entity over the next several hundred million years.

NASA's Planet Hunter, TESS, discovered its first potentially habitable Earth-sized planet called TOI 700 d, located 100 light-years away.

While he was a NASA intern, Wolf Cukier discovered a planet while combing through data from the TESS satellite.

The exoplanets discovered by astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto include one potentially habitable, Earth-sized world.

Should they be means tested, or should programs be universal?

The Honey Flavor and Aroma Wheel will help tasters detect if there is the flavor of cotton candy or smell of locker room in their honey.

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