A recent study by the World Watch Institute reports explosive sales growth in compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. This is great news for the climate with a p

Morieka Johnson helps you choose what to get at the grocery and the sushi bar. Plus: 10 fish to avoid.

While "Million Dollar Baby" earned critical acclaim and a Best Actress Oscar for Hilary Swank, it also took a toll on her health.

U.S. EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss the Republican attacks against her agency.

More than half of the country’s rivers and streams are suffering from nutrient pollution and habitat degradation; mercury and bacteria a problem as well.

Scientists are still trying to determine what happened to the levels of mercury in Utah's Great Salt Lake, which have dipped by almost 90 percent.

Each year the Environmental Working Group ranks supermarket produce by its pesticide load, the worst are known as the Dirty Dozen.

The chemicals, which come from valley farms as well as illegal marijuana gardens, are a contributing factor towards sharp declines in frog populations.

Environmental groups celebrate the bee strategy announcement — but only briefly before turning their focus to specifics and timing.

Europe's moratorium on neonicotinoid pesticides is being challenged by Bayer CropScience. Bee advocates, however, are fighting back.

Environmental Working Group’s latest Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce assists consumers in reducing the pesticides they consume in their diets.

The pesticides, called neonicotinoids, are "highly likely" to be triggering bee deaths, say researchers.

There are many reasons to protect children from an overload of chemicals. Here's how you can do it and why you should.

Spiders are great for pest control, except when they overtake your home. Here are some nontoxic solutions for dealing with them at your house.

A lot of people thought white and yellow dandelions were different plants.

Even if you take the energy and water it takes to build a dishwasher into account, it still beats washing by hand.

In exclusive and exceptionally irrigated Rancho Santa Fe, residents now face water rationing.

More than half of the world's largest aquifers are being depleted, according to satellite system data.

The bottled water people have run them out of town, but it's a historic public service.

Humans have spent countless centuries perfecting the science (and art!) of collecting, storing and transporting water. Here's how ancient India did it.

Bel Air: Champagne wishes and $90,000 water bill dreams.

Getting past the ick factor isn't the only obstacle for a beer made from treated wastewater to be sold on the market.

It might seem counterintuitive, but Anheuser-Busch and The Nature Conservancy are working together to protect a Colorado watershed by cutting down trees.

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

State legislators in Colorado are working to make it legal for residents to harvest rainwater for irrigation.

Thailand's wet and wild Songkran festival comes during the country's worst drought in decades.

From their vanilla-scented secretions to their amazing ability to alter an ecosystem, here's what you need to know about beavers.

The now-permanent rules are just common sense, really.

These dams, like the Hoover, the Diablo, the Shasta and the Grand Coulee, have helped to shape America.

This huge wetland ecosystem is running out of freshwater, and conservation efforts may not be moving fast enough.

Matthew Mazzotta's installation marries rainwater harvesting with the deeply pacifying sound of raindrops bouncing off a tin roof.

Right now, we basically build cities in a way that worsens flooding events, but nature has solutions.

Rutherford Seydel's Oxygen Project creates a sustainable Earth while creating financial sustainability for all. All it will take is a massive group action.

A perplexing amount of the planet's water slips deep into Earth's interior at some tectonic boundaries, a new study has found. But where does it go?

Scientists report that it could take 100 years for the world's groundwater supplies to respond to climate change, potentially leaving populations without water.

From frustrating voice recognition to built-in apps, consumers either don't know they're there or can't figure them out. But relief is in sight.

In a new world of digital fabrication, computer-driven tools of all kinds will change the way we make things.

The search giant has trained neural networks to interpret photos, but they can also be coaxed to create monsters.

.dog domains are reserved for dog lovers and providers of canine products and services, but .cat isn't what you'd expect.

The other fruity computer company introduces a touch display for $60.

Yes, you can get the digital chaos under control. Here's how.

With WiFi and Bluetooth, Raspberry Pi 3 a lot more than the educational tool it was designed to be.

You want to feel safe? Be a nobody with nothing anyone is interested in.

Just Not Sorry app helps women (and men) stop undermining their email messages with qualifiers and apologies.

Solving secret codes hidden within video games could soon spill over into real life mysteries.

Reality can never be perfectly simulated if you take into consideration quantum complexity.

Using tiny eyewear, researchers tricked the insects into revealing secrets that could lead to simpler visual processing in robots.

The World1 computer program at MIT considered a range of factors and predicted the world might collapse in 2040. So far, it has been right.

The business closed in 2013, but ‘zombie stores’ kept the concept alive.

A quiet deal between two of the world’s leading energy technology clusters, puts Copenhagen at the center of the expanding cleantech universe. Highlights from