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

Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.

Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.

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

By analyzing a 364-meter ice core, researchers have been able to go back in time and track the freezing and melting cycles of Antarctica's peninsula.

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.

Climate change is affecting sea ice, which will have a direct impact on survival for many colonies of Emperors.

Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.

... the Emperor Penguin! It vows to call for marine reserves in Antarctica to protect its imperilled species.

A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on a 3-month Antarctic expedition, supporting an international proposal for the world’s largest protected area.

Australian Antarctic Division captures a vision of curious penguins ready for their close-up.

Award-winning photographer Sue Flood braved the extremes to bring us this marvelous new book, Emperor: The Perfect Penguin.

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

Take subversive action in small ways.

Load up the Krug and the caviar and go for a spin.

Templar Marine introduces a Torqeedo powered dayboat that is a thing of beauty.

In two words: It's not.

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

Waitrose wants to see how serious shoppers are about bringing their own containers.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

A new study shows that all-plastic tea bags release billions of particles into hot water.

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.

Some legislators in Maine want the state's food to be labeled sooner.

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

Non-native species like zebra mussels make national news, but the dangerous plant variable milfoil is rarely discussed outside of lake communities.

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.

New research finds that normal sleep may be protective against early death for people with certain health risks.

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey may survive because of work by communities, NGOs and the Myanmar and Chinese governments.

What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins?

Most people think there are around 100 – most people are way off.

The World Customs Organization and INTERPOL retrieved thousands of endangered animals during a sweep of arrests across 109 countries.

Humanity's innate love for nature is integrated into this design for a biologically attuned and meditative workspace in London.

Doing street improvements for pedestrians and cyclists increases sales by 30 percent. So why aren't cities doing it?

Schools are also fundraising to supply face masks for children.

Move over royal baby, there's an infant two-toed sloth in town.

This is how you get people out of cars and build better cities. So what's stopping them?

It would make my life as a parent so much easier.

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.

On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert-dwellers' existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters,

Concerned about Asian carp? Meet the invasive cousins, you might say, of the monster fish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a white paper on 40 high-risk species to watch out for,

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

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,

The UK-based renewable energy company Ecotricity recently won an award from the renewable energy agency for South West England for its development of three giant wind turbines at the industrial Avonmouth Docks site on the outskirts of Bristol (which we

A slippery art installation in Bristol, England, reminds us that streets are not just for cars.

The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills."

Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working

Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.