Coal mines are destroying the life that its miners have come to know through pollution and job loss.

Basketball, mini-golf, a Ferris wheel, an underground lake and a spa are just some of the attractions found in this majestic 13th-century Romanian salt mine.

The mining project, one of the largest ever conceived, could hold $500 billion in gold and copper.

The nascent asteroid-mining industry is set to take its first steps into space this summer.

Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most destructive forms of resource extraction, and it's taking its toll.

An eye-catching community sauna is a symbol of rebirth for the arctic mining town of Kiruna, which is being forced to move 2 miles to the east.

Big Ass Fans unveils an exceptionally smart ceiling fan that learns to start to spinning the minute your sweaty bod enters a room.

Take a tour of Box Office, the first commercial office building in the U.S. built from retired shipping containers.

Months ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference, French Parliament approves aggressive new commercial building rules.

An international design competition hopes to bring energy-efficient housing and more to Tristan da Cunha.

Kitchen exhaust turns out to be a very complicated issue where there is no real consensus.

A UCI scientist accidentally discovered a way to make a rechargeable, lithium-ion battery that could last for 400 years.

Dubbed the "Jacuzzi of Despair," this lake on the ocean floor is made of heavy water rich with toxins.

New study reveals animals in ocean trenches are digesting plastic.

Conservation photographer Ben Von Wong's striking photo campaign aims to raise awareness of how microfibers from our clothes pollute the world's water.

Because of acidic water, volcanic fumes and too much carbon dioxide, you have to watch where you swim in some places in the world.

159 coral reefs were examined in the Asian-Pacific region, and 89 percent of those reefs were contaminated with plastics and disease.

A 2018 study found that microplastics are being introduced to the environment through fertilizers made through large-scale composting.

A research team working with an enzyme that eats plastic accidentally engineer it to make it better at breaking down PET.

If it isn't covered in toxic foam, Bellandur Lake in Bangalore is catching fire. The residents have complained

Even the Great Blue Hole in Belize, one of the world's largest sinkholes, isn't immune to human pollution.

Sewage in Mumbai's Thane Creek makes the city attractive to thousands of migrating flamingos, even though it's a turn-off for humans.

Shuttle Endeavour touched down safely at the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning, completing its final mission to space.

The Enterprise and Endeavour both have temporary displays, but their museums need help to make plans for permanent homes a reality.

Four astronauts are spending 12 days underwater to prepare new methods for working in outer space. And they're Tweeting about it.

Former astronaut Alan "Dex" Poindexter, 50, a space shuttle commander who flew twice into space, died on July 1 after being injured in a water sports accident i

Space shuttle Endeavour's trip to California has been delayed by a weather front in its way.

Space shuttle Endeavour's highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles has been deferred by a day.

The iconic space shuttle Endeavour, in commission for 20 years, has arrived at a museum in LA, making that its home for the foreseeable future.

Space shuttle Endeavour, you're a star. A captivating new time-lapse movie has condensed Endeavour's recent three-day road trip to a Los Angeles museum into mer

The test orbiter is the first of NASA's retired space shuttles to receive the distinction.

How do you un-shrink-wrap a space shuttle?

Three Chinese astronauts lifted off to spend 15 days in China's Tiangong 1 Module space station.

NASA will send off the "Sunjammer," a 128-ft solar sail, to record space weather and study the Sun.

The massive, potentially rocky planets orbit in the "habitable zone" of a star 22 light-years away.

NASA lost power on Sunday in California, delaying the launch of the IRIS sun observatory by one day.

The Shenzhou 10, along with its three crewmembers, returned safely after 15 days of space travel.

NASA's far-reaching space probe is still within the sun's sphere of influence, but soon will leave into prediscovered areas.

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has been decommissioned after 10 years of data collecting on other galaxies and black holes.

A miniature space farm, robot legs, and microbes collected by cheerleaders are just a few of the odd passengers headed to the International Space Station.

Weather permitting, the cargo run will lift off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 3:25 p.m. EDT.

A spacecraft launch in Kazakhstan turned into a scary situation as a booster malfunctioned mid-launch, sending the space crew into ballistic decent.

Landspouts are technically tornadoes, but they originate near the ground and aren't made from supercell thunderstorms.

A tiny satellite has recovered from an apparent software glitch in orbit and is on track to deploy its solar sail.

The Planetary Society's tiny LightSail spacecraft has sent a photo of its deployed solar sail down to Earth.

Want to see if your home is a good fit for solar? Project Sunroof offers a decent snapshot from your web browser.

At a reservoir outside of Tokyo, water and electricity do indeed mix.

20-acre solar installation near Walt Disney World’s Epcot theme park has begun supplying clean energy this spring.

Kitschy nostalgia and clean-tech collide along Route 66, America's Mother Road, thanks to Solar Roadways.

As it turns out, the Swedish retailer's rooftop power plants are also the biggest in several other states.