In Japan, militantly unfussy retailer Muji sells much more than stationery, travel pillows and slippers.

Sleek, slender and topped with solar panels, Heijmans ONE is a rental unit that addresses the dearth of affordable housing options for young professionals.

Units in Dubai's wind- and solar-powered Dynamic Tower will sell for $30M — Dramamine not included.

Start planning your Thanksgiving wine selections by trying this sustainable rosé this weekend.

Warre’s Otima Tawny 10 Year Port will warm you up on a chilly evening.

If policing your child’s plate at a holiday dinner dampens the celebration, this one tip may be incredibly freeing for you and your children.

Give your kids another non-alcoholic cocktail option besides a Shirley Temple this holiday season.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

Manufacturer Libby is confident there will be enough pumpkin for the holidays, but you still may want to stock up early.

It's colder up here and the harvest is earlier, but that's not the only reason Canadian Thanksgiving is different than American Thanksgiving.

Skip the stores and head outdoors to a nearby state park.

The true story behind the modern holiday isn't all togetherness and turkey.

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, online retailer Zappo's will cover cat and dog adoption fees at more than 100 participating shelters.

As the middle class disappears, the rich go hiking and the poor fight over bargains.

Focusing on what we're thankful for can help us turn outward and express appreciation, especially during the holidays.

Don't want to shop on Black Friday but not sure what else to do? Here are some ideas.

Dorcas Reilly created the first green bean casserole recipe as an employee of Campbells in 1955.

There are no rules for Friendsgiving, but it still helps to plan ahead.

The find is roughly 2 billion years older than any other known fungus fossil.

While hiking in New Mexico's Las Cruces desert, Jude Sparks tripped over a stegomastodon skull.

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.

It's called dendrochronology, the study of data culled from the growth patterns of trees. And it can tell us a lot.

The archaeological site is located a mere 900 feet off Manasota Key in Florida.

Preserved human footprints in the White Sands National Monument give us insights into early humans' hunting practices of giant ground sloths.

The extinct cave bear Ursus spelaeus appears to have descended from a vegetarian line of bears.

Based on our mostly destructive history of interacting with isolated cultures, we should stay away.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

A startling find in Wyoming radically changes our theories about the distant origins of our taxonomic order.

If dinosaurs had telescopes and had pointed them at Saturn, they might have seen a ringless world.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of an extinct spider family that contain reflective material in the eyes that gave them superior night vision.

Anjouan is an island between Africa and Madagascar littered with sedimentary rocks called quartzite that don't belong there. Are they a chunk of Gondwana?

Most of the methane that humans emit comes from natural gas, landfills, coal mining and manure management, but methane is almost everywhere and it comes from so

Rising carbon dioxide levels at the edge of space are apparently reducing the pull that Earth's atmosphere has on satellites and space junk, having effects on t

Good news from Antarctica: The hole in the ozone layer is shrinking, new measurements reveal.

Put down that hamburger, pick up a cricket burger, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Cyclists have "increased heart rate and respiration," resulting in more CO2 emissions, said state Rep. Ed Orcutt.

A new study claims it isn't as bad as estimated, at least during one part of the process. But how much methane does leak during fracking?

Seafloor-dwelling bacteria may prevent methane from reaching the atmosphere by eating it up.

U.S. federal budget woes are shrinking the monitoring network that tracks greenhouse gases such as methane.

Earth has broken temperature records for 14 months in a row, and 2016 will almost certainly be the hottest year on record. Yet there is still time to intervene

Scientists estimate more than 7,000 dangerous methane 'bumps' have formed in Siberia's Yamal and Gydan peninsulas over the last couple of years.

Climate change may be stripping nutrients from the most basic of foods, and that's making its way up the chain to us.

For several countries, the switch from coal to renewable energy is paying off in our attempt to reduce global carbon emissions — but we still have work to do.

A 2017 study published in Environmental Research Letters offers a number of ways to reduce your carbon emissions, and having fewer kids topped the list.

Newly declassified photos show a shocking loss of ice in the Arctic as global temperatures continue to rise.

New study finds that nanoparticles commonly used in antibacterial socks may significantly boost greenhouse gas emissions.

Polar bears have ruled the Arctic for 100,000 years, but now they're struggling to keep up as the region undergoes a dramatic transformation.

In continued efforts to track changes in glacial and sea ice, NASA's IceBridge plane has begun collecting data in Greenland.

Scientist captures stunning sunrise during a research mission to study polar ice in the Arctic circle.

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