These 'living fossils' have survived mass extinctions over the course of their eons of existence, but it just might be two youngsters that save them from the human threats they face today.

Here is another reason to hate the Hudson Yards in New York City.

Architentions design a lovely "parallel imaginative world"

Economists with the IMF crunched the numbers to quantify the economic value of a whale's life; what they found is astonishing.

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

"Can we afford to take action?" just became "Can we afford not to?"

These people know a thing or two about money. And they say it's INACTION that's going to cost us.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

They have toilets but they just dump the sewage out the back. This is nuts.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.

Created by Zaha Hadid Architects, this innovative project demonstrates the possibilities of using KnitCrete technology for creating curved concrete shells efficiently.

A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.

To do their part toward tackling the climate crisis, the Emerald Isle is undertaking a massive reforestation project.

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

New York judge throws the whole thing out, accusing lawyer of bribery and money laundering.

Gulf Coast states and the federal government agree to the highest fine for an environmental disaster in U.S. history.

A 13-year-old inventor in Kenya has come up with a low-cost, eco-friendly way to protect his family's livestock that could also serve as a solution to a serious problem in his country -- managing human-wildlife conflict.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

Octogenarian couple united by a love of entomology

The machine with a mission exceeds everyone's wildest dreams

The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.

Good news from Gabon: Conservation efforts in Batéké Plateau National Park are rewarded with a sighting of an animal thought to have disappeared from the region.

Turn your anger into action by supporting lion-loving charities that are doing great things for big cats.

Finally, the inside of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is done. The church, set out to build 125 years ago and expected to be finished in 2026, attracts millions of visitors every year. This is no surprise due to the

In a move which Connecticut governor Jodi Rell says will help position Connecticut as "the preferred location to grow clean tech jobs", the state has launch the Connecticut Clean Tech Fund to

Images courtesy of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk That's '9' followed by 20 zeroes The probability of a lobster being born with a blue shell is about 1 in a million. For a calico or pumpkin-orange colored lobster, the odds are in the excess of 1 in 30

Last month, a mountain lion was struck and killed by a car in Connecticut -- and new details have emerged suggesting the animal had an incredible, record-breaking journey before it met that sad end. Following the accident,

Record breaking extreme weather isn't just plaguing the Midwest: Colombia has had 5-6 times more rainfall than usual for the past ten months--which has killed 425 people so far, covered 1 million hectares with water, and left 3 million people as what

A new campaign is seeking to turn the city into a pollinator's playground by planting a wildflower for every resident.

Every little flower helps. Especially when there's a lot of us planting them.

New studies find that sales are big and getting bigger. It's time to give them a safe place to ride.

The moral of the story is: Don't go out and try to shoot lions.

After breaking into a game reserve to hunt rhinos, not much was left of the three poachers.

Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October.

Purr, snuggle, awww, repeat.

And people keep saying it's too expensive to deal with climate change.

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.

It took four years, one million spiders, and 80 people in Madagascar to make this cape, on view at London's V&A Museum -- and the color is natural.

Check out the live feed of the Future Tense conference, Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks.

A tree-planting campaign that's as easy as a click, text or tweet seeks to reach a million before December 31.

We've long known that sea level rise caused by global warming would threaten communities along the coasts, but a new study puts a startling figure on the potential damage. Meanwhile, the Hurricane Sandy Task Force releases a report.

In the current issue of the The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza tells the story of how Tom Steyer, "a fifty-six-year-old billionaire" has thrown his clout and money behind the effort to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.

The creation of a summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is an annual tradition; and this year it's weird.

Wildlife photography has been celebrated for 50 years now, and it's getting better and better.

This year's specially designed and built pavilion looks like a colourful worm on the ground.

Usually the Serpentine commissions one architect to create a building: this year it's five.

This company seems to think there's a chance you'll be safer in the water if you look a teensy bit like a lionfish. We remain, um, skeptical.

What would you do if you had a million dollars?

Genworth hits the street to break down misconceptions surrounding long term care insurance costs