The autonomous aircraft Mars Helicopter heralds the beginning of a new era in our exploration of the red planet.

Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster, which was shot into space aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket, is currently on cruise control at a leisurely 34,000 mph.

More than 1,000 visual art submissions are narrowed down to 5 winners in a unique contest to find compelling images that can be persuasive voices for the enviro

Join 350.org and thousands of local activists to create one of 15 gigantic aerial art pieces that'll be visible from space!

"The Silent Evolution" by Jason deCaires Taylor is 400 permanent sculptures in Mexican waters.

'Over the River' would suspend silver fabric over miles of Arkansas River.

Hundreds of restauranteurs and food industry professionals gathered to experience the new tastes and trends for 2011 at the 18th annual International Restaurant

Alan Kimble Fahey, the hirsute ex-phone service technician behind a folksy, sprawling rural California compound known as Phonehenge West, is found guilty of vio

A young New Yorker buys, via Craigslist, an uninhabited 91-acre island in Lake Superior with plans to create a small, sustainable artist residency while keeping

Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Aug. 14-20, 2011, including the not-so-nutty professor behind the The Periodic Table of the Elements an

A compilation of the best original stories from Mother Nature Network for the week, including Bear Grylls' eating habits, a webcam of Mount Everest and much mor

BevShots are alcoholic beverages photographed under a microscope, creating artistic colors and patterns.

This talented illustrator used recycled materials to draw attention to what is thrown away.

These artists used recycled pine, driftwood and waste timber to create their pieces.

Actor is taken to court over 17 bronze horse and bison sculptures he commissioned back in the late '90s.

Filipino artist and environmentalist Vincent Francisco Navarro paid homage to coffee farmers by painting portraits of them with used grounds.

It's amazing what light can do when seen from the right angle. Check out this beautiful sunset sky from the mountains of Costa Rica.

Custom colors haven't always been as easy to come by as they are today. In the past they came from insects, mummies and heavy metals around the world.

Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher announced on July 4 that they are more than 99 percent sure they've found a new, and heavy, boson particle, that

Do you ever ignore your contact lens care instructions? You may want to rethink that.

"Psychomachia," a medieval epic poem, may be the first, and certainly most brutal, comic book.

Judith Jones, the editor of 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' who had a knack for knowing what would sell big, has died at age 93.

The digital age isn't making libraries obsolete; it's making them more important than ever.

Ecologist Chris Thomas, author of 'Inheritors of the Earth,' asks readers to look at what we gain through environmental losses.

In his book, "Endurance," astronaut Scott Kelly lays bare the highs and lows of living through NASA's longest single spaceflight.

These vintage recipes ripped from magazines and the back of boxes are a snapshot of a culinary era.

Rachel Herz explains the science behind our relationship with the food we eat in her new book, "Why You Eat What You Eat."

Chris Grady's Lunarbaboon comics show off the sweet and sour sides of parenting and life.

From a moose to a tick, from a coyote to a cockroach, author Rachel Levin walks us through what to do in her book, "Look Big."

The phrase 'cold turkey' has nothing to do with a turkey that's shivering from the cold.

With photos and detailed insight, the new book "The Modern House Bus" offers a glimpse into the world of bus conversion projects.

Botanist and biologist Francis Hallé introduces a new world of rainforest flora in his latest art-driven book.

Nancy Striniste, a landscape designer and educator, has written a book, "Nature Play at Home," and launched a movement around creating natural play spaces.

Inside this giant city are impressive parks, a fledgling organic scene and world-class subways and railways.

Monaco is a tiny, independent city-state on the Mediterranean, surrounded by the French Riviera. It is famous for its glitzy casinos, Grand Prix race and imposs

Cartagena, Colombia's Caribbean port city, might not enjoy the name recognition of Bogota or even Medellin, but it has many of the features of a bona fide mains

This up-and-coming destination is cheaper than its counterparts in Western Europe but no less attractive in terms of beauty, affordability and sustainability.

Not many people are familiar with the joys of Colorado's wine country. A collection of high-altitude wineries in the state's Western Slope region, adjacent to U

Leading coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson speaks at TED about the havoc humanity is wreaking on the ocean.

Watch Van Jones as he lays out the case against plastic pollution from a social justice perspective.

A new animation shows the path of the debris carried out to sea by last year's massive tsunami in Japan. The tsunami triggered by the devastating earthquake tha

Earth now has five or six major ocean garbage patches, and new research suggests they'll continue growing for 'at least the next thousand years.'

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

Want the pitter patter of more paws in your home? Here's how to tell if bringing home a second dog is a good idea and how to do it so everyone gets along.

Is the food you're eating healthy? The answer should be simple, but it's not.

Get the lowdown on high fructose corn syrup -- and find out how much of you's made with corn!

Yesterday, a report was released by Environmental Health that got me re-thinking the few foods left in my home that still contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS

Pick from two organic and fair trade certified chocolate syrups — both free of high fructose corn syrup.

There are many issues about high-fructose corn syrup, all of them connected to corn-focused industrial agriculture, a practice that is destroying our health and

Princeton University study finds that rats get fatter on high fructose corn syrup than on sugar, even when caloric intake is the same.