Father's Day is coming up, read about what 10 different green blogger dads would like to get for the holiday.

The secret to a long life might be how old your father or grandfather was when they reproduced.

A newly developed insulation from students at California State University could dramatically reduce the cost of air conditioning.

Solar Foods is set to unveil a fully sustainable, carbon-neutral food that can be produced anywhere.

Wearable air conditioners may help wean us off our emissions-happy ways.

Limbaugh blasts GM for trying to sell the Chevrolet Volt in China, but his central premise (based on a New York Times story, no less) may be wrong.

BMW is fielding an all-new 3-Series, and with it an ActiveHybrid 3 that offers both zero to 60 in 5.6 seconds and about 37 mpg. Up a notch, there's the ActiveHy

Ford's upcoming plug-in hybrid can deliver 550 miles of driving pleasure on a single tank of gas.

You don't need a yard to grow vegetables and herbs. Container gardening with specialty seeds will make the the most of your limited space.

There aren't many ways to get rid of crabgrass, but here are some ways you can naturally keep it from overtaking your yard.

Here are tips on how to prevent and get rid of rats in and around your home.

Joseph Ford creates optical illusions with handmade knitted sweaters against real-life backdrops.

A musician shows us how to make a symphony from a dandelion.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Learn how your resource consumption is affecting the Earth.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Some of the biggest companies are meeting the challenge.

The Internet's favorite undersea autonomous vehicle's maiden voyage reveals how how Antarctic bottom water is affected by changing wind patterns.

At the Cancun climate talks, one art installation dominated the headlines at a turning point in history.

Alan Kimble Fahey, the hirsute ex-phone service technician behind a folksy, sprawling rural California compound known as Phonehenge West, is found guilty of vio

Here are 15 talented eco-artists who are redefining art's relationship with Mother Nature.

A compilation of the best original stories from Mother Nature Network for the week, including Bear Grylls' eating habits, a webcam of Mount Everest and much mor

BevShots are alcoholic beverages photographed under a microscope, creating artistic colors and patterns.

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.

A new art project uses DNA to get an idea of who's tossing butts and other litter.

The days' dappled sunlight complemented the nights' glowing trees at this music festival near Lake Michigan.

Creative upcycling leads to cellos made from oil cans and works created with plastic bottle caps.

Performers take to the streets of Edinburgh in one of the largest art festivals in the world, Festival Fringe.

From liters of beer consumed to the number of missing dentures, the tallies behind Oktoberfest have much to reveal about the frisky folk festival.

Beyond their undeniable cuteness, there's a lot more to discover about these wonderfully odd creatures.

A bite from the Lone Star tick could induce a meat allergy in humans.

There are plenty of ways that the animals we love can make us sick.

The world's most famous ring of standing stones has been studied for centuries, yet we learn something new about it all the time.

Eating mostly plant-based foods and fewer animal-based foods may be linked to better heart health.

The fountain of youth may be elusive, but there are plenty of things you can do to give your longevity a boost.

These feared and beloved predators are arriving on coffee tables, thanks to famed National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry.

Should baby boomers be blamed for stealing our kids' futures? Author Bruce Gibney thinks so — and he has a point.

A dwarsligger, or flipback book, is a small, very portable book that you read vertically, like you're scrolling through text on a smartphone.

Dr. John Bradshaw decodes cat behavior and explains what felines really think of us.

Cartagena, Colombia's Caribbean port city, might not enjoy the name recognition of Bogota or even Medellin, but it has many of the features of a bona fide mains

Beautiful beaches and clear, blue waters are a part of the Big Island's geography, but so are volcanic mountains, lava fields, caves, and impossibly high waterf

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is one of the most rural, nature-dominated regions in the Midwest. It is virtually surrounded by Great Lakes, with Lake Superior to i

Gorgeous sunsets, abundant wildlife and serenity can be found just a ferry ride away from Seattle.

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.

Follow the life of a plastic bag in a hilarious mockumentary -- complete with dramatic music and a narrator with a British accent.

A new CNBC documentary follows the secret life of garbage -- from your trash can to the garbage trucks to the landfills -- and our oceans.

Can devoting 20 minutes a day to a green project make big eco-friendly waves? One oceans activist shows how a little time can make a big difference.

For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

A new study by two graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that a little over nine percent of the fish that swim ne

The trash accumulating in the Pacific Ocean — scientists estimate there are 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris alone — is arriving on the West Coast.

New research finds that the Great Lakes are becoming polluted with the same plastic particles responsible for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.