White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee is seeking feedback from small business owners and entrepreneurs.

From sustainability as a means of innovation to envisioning a prosperous, peaceful future free of oil, coal and nuclear energy, these five books are taking care

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 USNS Henry J. Kaiser is carrying 900,000 gallons of biofuel blended with petroleum for evaluation and testing.

What if dilithium crystals were an alternative energy solution? Here are 7 fictional energy sources.

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

From one of the world's top pistachio-producing regions, comes a not-too-entirely nutty idea: Burning waste shells to heat buildings.

Whether they were based on the real thing or imagined, we welcomed these bears into our homes with abandon.

You can watch Leo DiCaprio's "Before the Flood" free online.

In the documentary "One Big Home," carpenter Thomas Bena goes behind the scenes to explores the trophy homes and "starter castles" of Martha's Vineyard.

Christine Ren's "Silent Killers" uses stunning visuals to draw attention to a net-buyback program to keep our seas cleaner for wildlife.

Gary Fisher, the dog owned by late actress Carrie Fisher, perked up every time Leia spoke.

From adorable porgs to crystalline foxes, the otherworld species of 'The Last Jedi' have roots here on Earth.

Anecdotal social media posts suggest that the Marvel blockbuster 'Black Panther' is spurring folks to adopt black cats.

Horror movies scare us, and that may be a good thing for our overall mental health.

To harness the power of the wind, some creative minds have looked beyond the traditional turbine. You may never look at a kite in the same way again.

Offshore wind has great potential, but the marine environment presents challenges. A new kind of turbine aims to overcome those obstacles.

I’m making this trek to ask Maine Gov. Paul LePage to lead, follow, or get out of the way of clean energy development.

The style-conscious soap wizards at Method unveil plans for a wind and solar-powered manufacturing facility that will also include rooftop food production.

Fairbanks will be the demo deployment site for BAT (Buoyant Altitude Turbine), an inflatable wind turbine floating 1,000 feet above the earth.

Furnishings that pull double or triple duty really earn their keep.

Is getting shiny kitchen and bathroom fixtures really as easy as rubbing a fresh lemon on them? Our food blogger finds out.

Most national food days seem arbitrary, but this one makes sense. You're going to need a clean fridge to prepare for all those Thanksgiving leftovers.

The Reddit guessing game Fridge Detective peeks inside people's refrigerators for clues, and it may remind you of the mess in your own.

Nothing gets the holidays off to a bad start like broken ornaments and tangled lights. Avoid the hassle and store them right.

Consider helping our honeybees by planting native flowers.

Student Jack Ross Pilkington is working to save dying bee populations and has even become a bit of a beekeeper.

In the strangest — and only — urban agriculture hoarding tale we've come across, a Queens man is busted for having 45 unregistered beehives housing to 3 mil

Bees don't want to sting you. They have far more important things to do, like keep our agriculture system afloat.

Chris Burley and Ei Ei Khin have an ambitious goal: Grow 1 million wildflowers to help threatened honeybee populations.

A photographer has caught fascinating slow-motion footage of honeybees flying, working and even stinging.

These epidemics have hit full force, with scientists scrambling to unravel the causes and, more importantly, the solutions.

Raymond Wang, 17, won prestigious $75,000 award for engineering a system to make cabin air safer.

Kentucky's governor says the EPA is overstepping its bounds. Other groups contradict his claims of looking out for the environment.

Supreme Court decides not to hear the case about a plan to build 'the world's largest garbage dump' near the iconic national park.

A new billionaire-backed venture announced today that it plans to use robots to mine asteroids for precious metals and in the process add trillions of dollars t

Mining the plentiful resources of the moon and near-Earth asteroids could alter the course of human history, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy an

Private groups are shaping business plans to tap into the resource-rich environs of outer space. Early celestial targets with commercial cross hairs on them are

Chessboard-like grid patterns that cover sand dunes in China are explained as attempts at mining nickel in the deserts.

A new mine could provide 1,500 jobs, but protestors say the environmental cost is too high.

The 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 may harbor $65 billion of recoverable water and $130 billion in metals.

Chilean mine accident survivor, Mario Sepulveda, is said to be thrilled with the casting decision.

Coudersport Ice Mine is located in the Appalachian Mountains.

Traces of air pollution from 16th-century Spanish silver mines were discovered deep inside an ice cap in the Peruvian Andes

The light emitted after the sun sets could be harvested, according to a new study.

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

William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor all died under suspicious circumstances.

"Ain't No Fish" is a stop-motion animated short film that uses a 1940s show tune to highlight ocean pollution.

Radium, a naturally-occurring radioactive element that's also a known carcinogen, can be found in water systems across the U.S.

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