You can help save amphibians in your neighborhood by creating an appealing backyard oasis for them.

Suet is a high-calorie source of easily digestible food for birds, and making it couldn't be easier.

Newman’s Own gives all of its profits to charity, like a therapeutic residential facility that supports 250 students and 200 animals.

The rhyme "leaves of three, let it be" could describe a lot of plants, so you have to know what to look for to identify poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac.

Before you check the medicine cabinet, you might want to look in your backyard for a healing plant.

Gardener Donna Stumphf wanted to grow a few vegetables for the needy and ended up with more than 1.5 tons.

A documentary introduces world-renowned garden designer Ryan Gainey, who was a self-taught visionary who had a distinctive style — and complex relationships.

Ecological landscape designer Jessi Bloom offers guidance in designing a yard that is healing for spirit and nature and creating sacred, meditative space.

In anticipation of Obama's visit to Canada, environmentalists circulate petition to stop 'dirty oil.'

The FDA has now confirmed that the disgusting sludge a man poured from a freshly opened Pepsi can was a dead frog or toad.

Video: A study conducted by Consumer Reports found BPA in almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested -- from juice to chicken soup and tuna fish -- raising co

Doctors are seeing up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants.

Reusing old household items can give your home a fun, rustic dimension.

A new device that takes K-Cups apart has the potential to keep millions of single-use pods out of landfills.

Millions of bottle deposits go unclaimed in the exceptionally tidy Danish capital each year.

Hey nosey garbage man, you got a warrant?

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... if it's in New Orleans, it's just a Black Hawk helicopter airdropping old Christmas trees.

Onward Bag is landfill-skirting design at its most ingenious.

Japanese scientists have found a special bacteria, Ideonella sakainesis, that likes to eat polyethylene terephthalate, better known as PET.

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where 810,000 homes are heated by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: It needs more fuel.

The ReTuna mall in Eskilstuna provides a shining example of how the buy-use-dispose model can be turned on its head.

In drought areas, treated wastewater is added back to the potable water stream. It's safe, and one study says it even tastes better.

Innovators like Sea2See and Adidas are taking marine trash and turning it into treasure.

A river pollution clean-up project yields spectacular results in Rotterdam.

From packing materia to kitty litter and more. Here's what to do if you can't recycle your shredded paper.

MIT engineers say this cheap, low-energy process can remove CO2 from the air.

A 'living' wrapper called kombucha slime could ease the world's plastic pain.

Hard-working people like Thomas Edison make better role models, according to research that compared Albert Einstein to Edison.

The global effort aims to help protect native tree species and reduce the billions in potential damages.

New research finds that parents who suppress their anxiety actually transmit it to their kids.

Deforestation is occurring so fast in the Brazilian Amazon that three football fields worth of tree cover are lost every minute.

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How about an out-of-this-world accessory for your Valentine?

A new study turns the tables on the old "dumb blonde" stereotype.

The ability of royal jelly to help heal wounds is yet another great reason to love (and save) the bees.

The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker is showing up in some interesting places in the South as it makes a comeback.

You might be able to fool birds and bunnies with fake owls and scarecrows, but not for long.

At Fort Stewart, the Army and the Fish and Wildlife Service are saving red-cockaded woodpeckers — and military training.

The male white bellbird attracts a mate by singing louder than a jackhammer.

The bald eagles of the Decorah and Decorah North nests in Iowa are the stars of two webcams that let us follow along with their daily drama.

Grab your binoculars and help scientists study bird populations in the 2019 edition of the world's longest running citizen-science survey.

Some snowy owls have left the tundra to winter in Detroit where they have less competition for food.

The H5N1 influenza virus, also known as "bird flu," may well be more prevalent and less deadly than health officials had thought, according to a new study publi

Scientists have found a new influenza virus that infects bats. But don't pull out the hand sanitizer leftover from the H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic just yet. Wh

While research on the lab-altered H5N1 virus that can be transmitted between mammals in laboratories is put on hold, scientists are debating how to balance bios

Bird flu can be transmitted between mammals — and possible humans — needing only four mutations to do so, a new study published this week in the journal Nat

Flu activity around the country is high enough that health officials announced that the season is under way.

With cases of the flu reaching epidemic levels, it is critical businesses maintain a healthy work environment.

Artisanal ice cream maker offers frozen cocktail cure that contains bourbon, cayenne, lemon and honey.

Despite the report, the CDC still advises older people to get a flu shot.