The EveryDrop LA app makes it easier for ordinary Los Angelenos to identify and report sources of wasted water in their communities.

A new app has launched in the Philadelphia region with guides to sustainable businesses in 20 categories.

These apps work in conjunction with store sales and printed coupons to help you make the most out of your holiday grocery budget.

If you’re unfamiliar with grape varieties like Assyrtiko, this app will teach you the basics, including pronunciations.

Recycling or donating your old iPhone is sensible. But these projects are much more fun.

Shared mobile health app will allow doctors to monitor a patient's health in real-time — and intervene before a hospital visit is needed.

BARTRENDr app helps drinkers share favorite cocktails and settings — but only with other drinkers.

Here's how to capture gorgeous close-up photos in any scenario, with nothing but your smartphone and an affordable lens attachment.

With the swipe of a finger, you could help advance medical research on diseases such as Parkinson's, breast cancer and diabetes.

Major music festivals join museums, sporting venues and religious sites in banning the devices.

Transit use is going up as people prefer using their smartphones to driving.

Sherry Turkle says we are losing our capacity for empathy, and our ability to carry on a conversation.

A new study finds that we cannot remember phone numbers anymore. Shocking!

In 1994, AT&T ran a series of ads that got much of it right, but missed the big thread.

The design world is agog at its ugliness, and the fact that it was needed in the first place.

In your phone. Or down the street at the supermarket.

If you use apps like SavingStar or ibotta, you'll want to know about these apps, too.

It's a defining moment for CEO Tim Cook, who is fighting to keep iPhones locked, even in the face of terrorism.

Talk about blowing things way out of proportion.

It is one thing to go cashless, and it is altogether another thing to have no money.

Starbuck's new keyboard app offers 28 coffee-inspired emojis that make words obsolete when you're planning a coffee date.

Tracking Santa this year? There's an app for that. And a website, and a Facebook page, and a twitter profile, and more.

Everything from the way we tell time to the way we measure things and plug in our phones is screwed up.

Finnish startup aims to engage mobile users in an international competition to send someone to the International Space Station.

From toilets (which keep you healthy) to phone connections (that don't need wires), we've never had it so good.

The company will do the work for you.

Next week hundreds of bicyclists will set out on a 300 mile bike trip to bring awareness of global warming and MNN's own Josh Dorfman will be there for the ride

Video: Josh Dorfman, host of "The Lazy Environmentalist," talks with msnbc's Willie Geist about the best ways to go green and protect the environment.

Check out this full listing of the interviews I've conducted here on MNN over the years.

It may sound like a good idea for the environment, but refilling a plastic water bottle may not be a good idea.

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

A new study finds footwear desensitizes feet and may even affect balance. It's time to embrace the callus.

For most cities, the biggest areas of public space are streets. But are we using them to our full potential?

Scientists have found the genetic mechanism behind chronic pain in bugs.

Irish teen Fionn Ferreira won the 2019 Google Science Fair for removing microplastics from water.

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.

Mirror neurons help us imitate each other's expressions and the feelings that go with them.

They were the first to bring us the modern automobile as we know it, so it only makes sense that Ford Motor Company is now ushering in the future of mobility.

Finnish researchers have developed a strong, flexible material from spider silk and tree cellulose.

Researchers may have finally figured out what kind of drugs Vikings were on as they headed into battle in a blood-thirsty state known as berserkergan.

"Are electric vehicles fast?" "Do they work in winter?" "Can I really give up visiting the gas station?" Get the facts on EVs.

What do a Nigerian shuttle service, an Indian job placement program, and a South African parent empowerment initiative have in common?

Seawalls fail in Holland killing 50,000, a nuclear reactor in Ontario suffers a partial meltdown, and Keiko the orca whale dies.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Yemen, Greenpeace faces prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department and scientists declares China’s baiji, or Yangtze River dol

Roald Amundsen arrives at the South Pole, widespread bleaching of coral is reported, and IUCN identifies species most likely to be affected by climate change.

The tanker Argo Merchant runs aground off Nantucket Island, the last operating reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear station is decommissioned and the U.S. Justice D

The Safe Drinking Water Act is signed, U.N. delegates plan to address climate change in 2009, and scientists express concerns over methane release from melting

Typhoon Cobra sinks battleships in the Pacific Ocean, the first version of the U.S. Clean Air Act is signed, and manufacturers agree to phase out the chemical d

"Silkwood" and "Avatar" are released in movie theaters, and Julia 'Butterfly' Hill climbs down from her redwood.