Nations met in Peru this month to discuss solutions to climate change

Outfitted with GoPros and solar-powered GPS trackers, the crew of carrion-loving vigilantes is sniffing out illegal dumps in Lima.

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.

A mixture of leftover citrus rinds and vinegar is an easy, food-safe way to cut ants off at the pass.

Need help paying attention? Cue up the cute baby animals.

Perhaps lofts are not the best solution for tiny homes and apartments.

It seems that these days you can build just about anything with a CNC machine.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

Hubble's image of Messier 3 reveals what astronomers say is one of the prettiest "globular clusters" in the universe.

More than just a typical aurora, researchers have now figured what powers this stunning lightshow and where it comes from.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

The project will take advantage of the sun, mountains and sea.

Oil and gas companies have until 2023 to make 'Paris compatible' plans, or face divestment.

Sure, we'll be using oil for a while. But where, exactly, is demand growth going to come from?

It's searching for a place to live because its home has been destroyed by our addiction to palm oil.

When the harvest has been poor, rates of adulteration rise.

We apologize for the bad pun in the title, sometimes it's just hard to resist. Fair trade is a familiar concept to our readers. Aside from writing about well-known fair trade commodities like chocolate and coffee, we've also seen posts on everything

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000

Ramón Cruz has been growing oil palms for 37 years. He is a supporter of Rainforest Alliance's sustainable certification process.

This quick project makes a useful emergency flashlight while recycling your leftover cardboard.

It goes from bland plastic to a thing of beauty.

Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.

Jason Aramburu is trying to revolutionize how we garden by expanding the production of "Black Revolution" biochar, a soil-less growing medium made from farm waste.

Flying can be a divisive topic when it comes to curbing emissions, but airplanes have other environmental impacts too.

No more plastic bags means a return to old-fashioned ways of packaging and carrying goods -- not necessarily a bad thing!

On the first of this month, Hawaii became the first state in the U.S. to put a plastic bag ban into effect.

This is candy in its purest form -- certified organic ingredients, zero artificial colors and flavors, no preservatives or GMOs.

On Monday (Sunday locally), Japan switched off the last of its operating nuclear reactors and became 100% nuclear-free.

The number of wolves alone around Chernobyl is more than 7 times greater than can be found in other nature reserves.

Instead of building giant concrete buildings filled with uranium, why not build smaller energy-efficient buildings filled with people.

and really, are Christmas lights screwing up your Wi-Fi?

and the last job on earth.

Scientists argue over whether some animals have the brains for suffering.

Instead of tossing it, fisheries should capture the protein and fat left in water and use it to feed humans and animals a second time around.

The gruesome deaths raise serious questions about the practices of fishing trawlers.

George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2

The American public is deathly afraid of the kind of changes we actually face -- such as, the end of consumer culture, the gross loss of value in suburban real estate (which

In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George

George Monbiot told us that flying is dying; London artist Richard DeDomenici tells us that a return transatlantic flight is equivalent in CO2 and pollution output to driving a car 30 miles a day for a year. So the artist/humorist has

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.

"Let’s abandon this disastrous experiment."

By 2030, 70% of the country's electricity could come from renewables.

This is how to do climate action the right way.

The modular robot could swim through bodies of water to detect and find the source of pollutants.

Grow some of your own greens, veggies, and herbs indoors with one of these automated hydroponic growing systems.

Sunshine is wonderful, but you can have too much of a good thing. This device measures it.

No detailed guidelines, no legally binding requirements, and a misplaced focal point are a recipe for failure.

The blue whale, is the largest animal ever known to have lived on the planet. Here’s what you need to know about the majestic marine mammal.