On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.

Many of us will agree that Buckminster Fuller was way ahead of the crowd with his thinking on sustainability and eco-friendly designs. In his time he was considered an eccentric inventor with impractical ideas, now we think he's a genius! Not all of us

Got an idea that can save the world? Enter the Buckminster Fuller Challenge and win a hundred thousand bucks. Come up with a "design science solution" (effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

The Buckminster Fuller Institute ran a competition to update the iconic map; here are some of the finalists

The styrofoam substitute that they grow into packaging and insulation is the next big thing in building.

A new kind of food label hopes to fight obesity by stating how much exercise is required to burn it off.

The remote atoll which is home to endangered species and historic landmarks can now be explored from your computer.

The mapping technology will eventually be used to get precise solar power potential information for any location around the world.

The bigger question: why is the industry playing into the hands of the anti-fracking activists?

Radioactive uranium occurs naturally in soils but farming techniques may be causing it to dissolve into groundwater

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.

A new study suggests we look to the past for guidance on how to cope going forward.

The monthly vegetarian gathering will also host policy makers to discuss various aspects of climate change.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

How will invasive Asian carp enter the Great Lakes? Via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, maybe another flood? They almost made it via a semi-tractor trailer crossing the Ambassador Bridge from the U.S. to Canada. The

Exfoliating body wash may make you clean, but it's making the lake water dirty.

Finally one state is putting a stop to the "exfoliocean." Hopefully others will follow its lead, forcing companies to adopt eco-friendly alternatives.

Well, at least the most iconic animal in the United States won't catch on fire too easily...

Restaurants win; Great Lakes lose.

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

This looks a bit like the Hoth rebel station in Return of the Jedi...

Proving once again that mankind can reverse the effects of our mistakes if we just take firm and fast action

The 9-mile long archipelago has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.

These bags are built to last, both in terms of usability and style.

A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.

Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the

These 'living fossils' have survived mass extinctions over the course of their eons of existence, but it just might be two youngsters that save them from the human threats they face today.

It's the first conference of the North American Passive House Network and it sounds like it was a lot of fun.

It's as if Chris Knight left for a weekend camping trip, but didn't come home for a quarter-century.

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway

This compact all-in-one cooking kit is looking to overhaul the traditional kitchen for today's hectic schedules and non-traditional living situations.

The Miele Dialog oven, combined with meal delivery, may make it obsolete.

Every kitchen should have one of these, and now it can fit right in.

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

Kelp isn't just for eating; this designer is experimenting with the fast-growing, large algae for lighting.

Take one of the world's most beautiful places, add dappled sunlight, and voila.

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation

Bogobrush is socially-minded, biodegradable toothbrush that gives back to the community.

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.

From one problem to the next...

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until

It took me hours, but I finally found this guy.

What does it feel like to be an arch? Very different from how it feels like to be a cantilever.