World-renowned for their work in Medellin, especially for the Orchid House at the Botanical Garden, Colombian firm Plan B Architects is busy and keeps coming up with great projects.

In this open source design project, Dos Uno shares cool, easy to make designs for chairs, tables and shelves using cheap readily available materials.

Chiquita Bananas becomes the latest major brand to avoid tar sands fuel. But will it really help?

In a pretty self-explanatory piece, Bogota-based Unodot studio executes a simple useful idea for small spaces.

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

Medellín has a great sustainable transportation vision for the future, and so far they seem to be executing it extremely well.

Bogotá was a pioneer of car-free day. Now, it has decided to one-up that and move to having a car-free week.

Our commenters helped determine that the species of this cool tropical flower is Kohleria affinis.

Named for 'el diablo' himself, a new and extremely rare orchid species reveals a wicked heart.

This startup offers tailored volunteering experiences where participants can continue working remotely while abroad, in addition to volunteering their skills in local communities.

This vertical garden on a residential high-rise in Bogotá reuses greywater from its residents and helps to clean the air.

A 297-acre property in rural northern Colombia will become the first and only reserve for the conservation of the Dahl’s toad-headed turtle.

It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Lush gets luxurious fair-trade cocoa butter, while farmers earn income in a low-risk way, not threatened by violence.

Used clothing donations are more of a hindrance than a help, in the eyes of the East African Community. We need to listen to what they're saying.

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

The People's Choice award went to photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, who took the photo in Cameroon.

We may be killing them at an abysmal rate, but these smart and social creatures seem to have a plan.

The moral of the story is: Some people are awful, some people are heroes, and baby chimps are irresistable.

There's nothing like watching the sun go down on a beach in a tiny African village.

Smartphones, laptops, and electric car batteries rely on cobalt, most of which comes from Congolese mines that employ children.

The Malawi Schools Permaculture Clubs, a recipient of the 2018 Lush Spring Prize, provides basic gardening kits and lesson packs to teachers in order to teach valuable agricultural skills.

Mountain gorillas have become the only wild apes whose population numbers are known to be improving.

He’s a fierce defender of his family and helped nurse two of his offspring back from leopard attacks. He likes to nap with his feet in the air, and he hums while he eats.

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

Since both require the same habitat, scientists are worried how primates will survive the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations.

Half a century ago zebras were hunted to extinction in the region, now the area is being rewilded and the zebras are leading the charge.

A new study found global fertility rates are on the decline in hundreds of countries

Never ever underestimate the intelligence of Mother Nature.

In a compelling new documentary, The Flood, Angela Bassett narrates the story of the life in one of the world's last great wildernesses.

An increase in maximum sentences for wildlife crimes are being delivered by the Republic of Congo – here's how one gang's arrest and conviction went down.

A new study investigates our ancient cousins' hunting abilities.

Even though there has been notable progress, at current poaching rates elephants are still in danger of becoming virtually extinct on the continent.

Before 2015, the Mozambique reserve lost many thousands of elephants due to rampant poaching – now they’ve just had a full year without any illegal deaths.

New short narrative film strives to deepen the global discussion around the illegal wildlife trade.

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

Purr, snuggle, awww, repeat.

There are only two northern white rhinos left, and they are both female; but now scientists have created two viable embryos and there is hope.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

The age of diesel and petrol cars is ending. It’s time to do the same for fossil fuel heating.

One designer thinks that it can take the place of concrete in buildings, inside and out.

Haven't we always said that learning how to cook is a useful life skill?

The way we're doing things clearly doesn't work.

Gaobeidian Railway City is jaw-dropping, showing how to scale energy efficient building.

What's the best way to figure out how to use a new product? Have a competition!

Over the next five years, it plans to eliminate shopping bags, straws, takeout food containers, and more.

What do you have to do to get tossed out of the "Architects Declare" club?

It takes a lot of preparation, prefabrication and people. The Chinese have all of this.

This is the way you mix shipping container transport tech with spaces that work for human beings.

What will it take to bring people back?

A new study reveals that murder rates of environmental defenders have spiked in recent years.