A rare, early October blizzard has devastated the South Dakota rancher community, after as many as 100,000 head of cattle may have died following the October 3rd storm.

There is a real footprint to all those baby pictures and Netflix binges.

Knowing how to make a few sauces by heart is a skill we all can use.

Home cooks are learning how to make do with what they have, as our grandparents did.

What happens to old hotel soap? One young social entrepreneur created a humanitarian and environmental nonprofit that saves, sanitizes and supplies recycled hotel soap for the developing world.

Stand around a fire and sip mulled wine. Skip the last-minute shopping. Give time, not stuff.

With more than 22,000 acres newly opened up to the iconic mammal, the release of bison onto new turf is a profound thing to see.

Last week, we revealed the winner for our Participate! contest, Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt Project. This week, we are profiling two more great entries, the Participate! runners-up. Yesterday, we showed you easy to assemble, 100 percent recycled plastic

An ambitious scheme to build a number of solar power stations along the Mediterranean shores of the Middle East and northern Africa could generate enough electricity to supply one sixth of the European Union's needs. The generators, individually fitted

Directed by David Valero for the Spanish eco-short-films festival La Luciernaga fundida, this video shows how a grandmother and grandson desalinate seawater at home.

This simple, innovative solar still purifies water without electricity or filters.

These low-impact, solar-powered desalination units could be a potential boon to water-scarce coastal communities, disaster-prone areas, as well as local marine life.

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 UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020.

By combining solar PV, solar thermal, and a heat exchanger, Desolenator has developed a low-cost portable water purifier and desalination device powered by renewable energy.

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

An ice cream cart uses solar panels to power its refrigeration unit.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

Incredibly, this appears to be the first time the government has really tried to tackle this crucial issue nationwide.

Until now, no species has had such a profound effect on shaping the Earth's biosphere as the humble broiler chicken.

When the earthworms are in trouble, we all are.

Over the last 30 years, habitat loss for imperiled species in the U.S. was more than twice as great on non-protected private lands than on federally protected public lands.

Caveat emptor.

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.

Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the

These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.

Personal care is a big subject, but we'll focus on caring for our general appearance: Cleansing and cosmetics, hair care, skin care, makeup, hair removal and, of course, that time of the month most women deal

Recycling isn't enough when demand for aluminum is soaring. We have to use less of the stuff and eliminate single-use packaging.

The underwater data center is an innovative attempt by the company to create more sustainable, energy efficient data centers.

The new program can learn and classify leaves so well that it could reveal the "tree of life" of ancient plants.

So much intelligence and so much technology, to what end.

It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.

The machine with a mission exceeds everyone's wildest dreams

A new study suggests that a social media community adds to longevity similar to an offline community.

A shark's fin is like its fingerprint, with each animal having its own unique patterns and scars.

The tech giant just agreed to purchase all of the energy from GE's Tullahennel wind farm.

The action will prevent 10 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

This is the second deployment of the tech company's underwater data center project.

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's a weedy seadragon!

Our photo of the day comes from Los Banos, California.

Made in Australia out of a solar-powered workshop, this gorgeous little home incorporates a great layout and clever features.

Though it sounds like a technical term more suited for computer programming, avicaching is actually a growing practice that encourages birders to collect and share their data from bird-watching through an internationally known phone app.

GreenBlue is challenging companies throughout the United States and Canada to change their thinking about sustainable sourcing.

Every year, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative community comes together to exchange ideas, share innovations, and inspire those who have a vision of a world that values and benefits from sustainably managed forests.

Here's why soil is one of our most valuable natural resources and what you can do to support it.

And when prepared by professional chefs, it's more delicious than any imported produce could ever be.

If we don't take care of the soil, the soil will lose its ability to take care of us.

Allison Arieff asks that and a lot of other questions.