An experienced Chicago builder is making a big investment in it.

This tender, buttery, flaky crust is one of the easiest I've ever made, and also the most delicious.

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

Provincial regulation would make stores' waste-reduction efforts easier to manage.

Unless they're specially branded Keep Cups that reduce the likelihood of catering staff getting burned.

Even a full day later, a one-hour shift in the clock is hard to adjust to.

Need a break from the news and bored of books? Here are some quality screen time suggestions of movies and TV shows that will (hopefully) take your mind off the pandemic.

Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future.

Built for a sculptor and his new family on the site of an old gold mine and sawmill, this house uses reclaimed concrete blocks weighing a ton each.

Concrete Week at the Guardian produces some hard truths.

But nobody is buying greener cement because it costs more.

How would you reduce one pound of waste per week from your lifestyle?

“Lightweighting” often shrinks down packaging into items that are unrecyclable, difficult to capture, highly polluted and designed without end-of-life solutions.

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.

Tiny scales along the animals' bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water. These structures could do the same for aircraft.

This artist mixes and matches up jigsaw puzzle pieces from different vintage puzzles to create mind-bending collages.

Photographed in various natural settings, these life-sized, child-like works of art invoke a sense of wonder and delight.

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.

Influenced by realism and mythology, these impressive works impart a sense of wonder about the natural world.

The impact of flying on climate change cannot be ignored, as I book my next flight.

In California, many people are saying that all the wiring should be underground because of fire risk. It won't happen.

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.

While the immense amount of rain and devastating floods that hit Colorado nearly two weeks ago were already tragic , they have also exposed a concern regarding the lax environmental regulations that allow the oil and gas industry to drill in flood zones.

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that's what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.

The biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history killed tens of thousands immediately, but the effects on climate continued for years.

The largest hotel chain in the world joins the move against straws.

Sony, McKinsey & Company, Royal Bank of Scotland and WeWork are all committing to going all-out for clean energy.

It's the Danish word for happiness, which these days seems in short supply.

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

There is a lot of money to be made in the travel section. Should other media follow their example?

It's cow bliss at a dairy in Hertfordshire, England run by the Hare Krishnas. There are only 44 of them but life is sweet: On this farm all the cows have names, they are hand-milked whilst listening to Sanskrit music and

The already tense battle over mining in Inner Mongolia has erupted further after a Mongolian herder was run over by a coal truck and killed while trying to block the

Search on the terms "hay pollutant epa" and you'll see hundreds of recent links with statements inferring that USEPA has 'declared hay to be a pollutant.' The source most often cited

Mac McClelland at Modern Farmer ponders the term "humane slaughter" and visits Prather Ranch, a certified organic beef ranch, to see how it is done

From the world's largest to ones that were here long before the Mayflower, these noble trees are nothing less than U.S. national treasures.

Have you ever gone to the moon and back? Moon trees made the journey — or rather, their seeds did.

Here's everything to know about this year's unique September full moon.

The world's weirdest living thing should encourage us to rethink what we think about intelligence.

These foods can be used in many different recipes.

Because store-bought guacamole has too much packaging and potentially strange ingredients; and bad homemade guacamole is sad.

Since March 6 is National Frozen Food Day, I figure it's as good a time as any to sing the praises of my freezer.

Establishing certain habits can make cooking easier.

I've made it through the first month of my thrifty New Year's resolution.

Here's what to know about Lynx rufus, the solitary wildcat that roams North America.

Meet the primate species that are among the most endangered on the planet, and the most in need of conservation measures.

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

With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the

Stand at the edge of a reservoir, river, or ocean and it's hard to imagine that the planet could ever run out of water; even just a day at the beach makes your one small shower a day seem like less of a threat. But with

Using solar stills to purify water isn't a new idea, but it's an effective one. And now new efforts are underway to use this old technology to help green the desert.

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...