Flow, a handheld tracking device by Plume Labs, wants to help us better understand — and avoid — urban air pollution.

The Environmental Defense Fund is developing a satellite that will regularly monitor 50 major oil and gas regions for methane leaks.

To help erase unsightly yellowing brought on by air pollution, India's crown jewel is looking for new beauty miracles.

Smart rooks collect litter at Puy du Fou, a historical theme park in Western France, in exchange for food.

The Indian Supreme Court delivers a serious ultimatum to the government: clean up or tear down the ailing global architectural landmark.

Decades after the first of the iconic orange phones began washing ashore, a French community finally has answers.

The industry funded National Coalition on Mountaintop Mining is no joke.

Appalachian residents witness to the atrocities of mountaintop removal as S. 696 hits the Senate.

Mountaintop removal mining has destroyed hundreds of mountain peaks and at least 1,200 miles of streams in the Appalachians, and remains a hotly contested issue

In new video, kids ask President Obama to end mountaintop removal mining.

After months of careful consideration, actress says her 'responsibilities and energy' need to be focused on family.

The wildfire in the Florida Everglades has spread to 32,000 acres, and officials are using all the resources they can to contain it.

A young parkgoer returned a rock she took from Smoky Mountains National Park along with a drawing and a nice letter.

Phone recycling has become so easy, convenient and, in some instances, profitable, there’s really no reason not to do it.

On Hamburg's waterfront, world-class sustainable architecture has emerged not from lofty green goals but from practical questions like this one: How do you buil

Michael Pollan explains how healthcare costs are increasing while the amount of money people spend on good food is decreasing and suggests a change.

A nonbinding resolution calls for meatless options to be offered.

Food news and items of interest from around the Web for your weekend reading.

An heirloom tomato has been named after Michael Pollan. The "Michael Pollan" tomato is an oddly shaped green and yellow tomato.

You can watch the live stream of the conference and follow my live tweets from the event.

Food news and items of interest from around the Web — Giada de Laurentiis, Jersey Girl Cooks and weeknight dinner parties.

Dale 'Grey Beard' Sanders, 82, hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in a year.

BirdCast shows the volume and direction of birds in the U.S.

This foliage map from SmokeyMountains.com is a handy, up-to-date guide to fall leaf season all over the country.

The air at 85% of national parks is unhealthy at times, report finds, building on a study that said concentration of smog-forming ozone rivals that of cities.

Now 50% complete, the Great American Rail-Trail spans an epic 4,000 epic miles.

Fracking for shale gas may be dangerous, but the international agency offers a list of rules it says can make the process 'environmentally acceptable.'

The Youngstown quakes were triggered by wastewater injection, scientists have discovered.

Prize-winning design proposal revives defunct post offices by transforming them into food-sharing centers.

In 2015, Albuquerque launched an innovative program aimed at helping the area's homeless. Instead of ticketing panhandlers, city officials offered them jobs.

We've given far too much of our lives to Facebook to give up on the relationship now.

Julie Marburger paints a dim picture of the American classroom.

Not every dog goes straight from the shelter to a happy ending, but Baloo's story is the most unlikely of all.

The new and highly Instagrammable interactive exhibition in Miami Beach receives a violation for generating marine debris.

Rich Horner went diving in Manta Point, off the coast of Bali, and found a world of plastics waiting for him.

Drinking straws are one item that's days are numbered as Ikea vows to eliminate throwaway plastic products from its product range and in-store eateries.

A study found that microplastics can be kept inside water-dwelling creatures, like mosquitoes, as they age.

Why are regular citizens doing the work that should be done by the companies that make the disposables?

A new technique promises to turn plastic waste into clean, high-grade fuel.

Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, discusses climate change with Jon Stewart.

Environmental Protection Agency releases air toxicity results from 65 schools in 22 states.

In the wake of the worst nuclear disaster in a generation, Germany doubled down on a decade of success, pledging to eliminate nukes by 2022 and switch almost ex

With budget cuts come consequences. It looks like the emerging clean energy industry could take a big hit.

Site for wind farms is not exactly the type of field you picture a retired NFL linebacker scouting. But Sean Tufts is not your typical retired player. Nor is he

A new system created by a French energy firm heats about 6 million square feet of office space, creating no emissions in the process.

The Southern Hemisphere will experience more devastating wind and waves as the world warms, according to new research.

If solar panels are out of your realm of possibility, you still have alternatives to coal and other fossil fuels.

These high-tech devices work in decidedly unexpected ways, often converting human energy into electricity.

Not all of us can put solar panels on our houses, but we can still support renewable energy. Here's how.

NYC announces a scheme in which organic food waste will help to boost production of methane-rich biogas at the city's largest wastewater treatment plant.