They actually might in certain cases, using off-peak power at peak times.

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.

One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.

Does it make sense putting this in a small town up on the Canadian Shield?

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

A skeleton of the bizarre land-walking whale provides answers about how whales first spread around the world.

Nicolas Laisné's vast project is a very different kind of office development.

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.

Get rid of slugs (and snails) without the use of pesticides that harm beneficial creatures and pollute our waterways.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.

From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats.

Yet another reason to skip the escalator/elevator and hoof it instead.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

Syte Architects insert a mezzanine and a terrific storage stair in existing loft.

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

To cap off a week of black hole fever, the cosmic object has now been named by a language professor in Hawaii.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Using the flow of water inside the pipes to power the water network's own monitoring devices could eliminate the need for batteries in those systems.

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).

Just float the device in a river or stream and soon enough you'll have enough juice to charge a smartphone, GPS or other device.

For backpackers wanting something other than solar power.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

Petrochemicals are becoming increasingly important to the oil industry as cars go electric.

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

The kit includes an LED headlight and tail light and a rugged case that attaches a smartphone to the handlebars.

The removable insole that's now on Kickstarter can fit into almost any kind of shoe.

Sure, you can buy one or you could put your DIY skills to the test and make one with materials you have on hand.

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.

We often write about technologies that harness energy from your steps. Here's how you can make your own piezoelectric sneakers at home.

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.

The same inventor who brought us the body heat-powered flashlight is at it again.

Forget plugging in your phone to charge, soon the battery could stay topped off from swipes and typing.

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.

Fresh Cargo's new fair-trade Maasai Treads line combines locally sourced and recycled materials with indigenous sandal-making skills to create footwear that make a stylish, sustainable statement.

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.

It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds. It's simply a good demonstration of the power of regenerative braking!

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

As if to say 'sorry,' Kilauea softens its fury by tossing shimmery green olivine to the humble humans below.

A wholphin? A dolphale? Whatever you call it, the first known hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin is a wonder.

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.