A musician shows us how to make a symphony from a dandelion.

Why buy your laundry pods when it's so easy to make your own version?

You can hang, press and even microwave a variety of flowers and keep them for years.

Hanging a birdhouse means considering not only the birds but also the tree. Here's how to protect your trees and your feathered friends.

Splinters can be annoying and even painful, but they can be easy to remove.

It's more than just cured meat.

Leave the premixed red stuff at the store. Here's a homemade nectar recipe that will keep the hummingbirds in your yard well-fed and happy.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Most people think their trash is history once it gets to the landfill.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Learn how your resource consumption is affecting the Earth.

The autonomous aircraft Mars Helicopter heralds the beginning of a new era in our exploration of the red planet.

As part of its mission to analyze Bennu, OSIRIS-REx has set a new record for closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft.

Are you ready for one of the best meteor showers of the year? You've got that, Jupiter, and the Sturgeon Moon to look forward to.

Nieuwkoop, a sustainable community in the Netherlands, made the night skies safer for bats by using LED lights with a red glow.

From multiple meteor showers to a Hunter's Moon, here's what to spy in the heavens above this month.

Want to wish upon a shooting star? November is one month when you can definitely do that.

Annual celestial event often produces large bright fireballs that scorch the night sky.

After landing rovers and its spacecraft on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, JAXA is returning with a sample.

These photos of service dogs went viral after part of their training took place at a play at the Stratford Festival in Canada.

Sculptor visits construction sites, which he calls "gold mines," and turns the waste into works of art.

'Over the River' would suspend silver fabric over miles of Arkansas River.

At the Cancun climate talks, one art installation dominated the headlines at a turning point in history.

Artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang find materials for their eco-art pieces by picking up plastic debris from the beach.

Hundreds of restauranteurs and food industry professionals gathered to experience the new tastes and trends for 2011 at the 18th annual International Restaurant

Enter The Nature Conservancy's digital photography contest for a chance to see your work on the cover of the nonprofit's annual calendar.

Using a repurposed trash bin, Berkeley-based artist Gregory Kloehn creates Oscar the Grouch's dream home: A comfortable, one-room dwelling complete with hardwoo

The controversial installation will cover sections of the Arkansas River with miles of silver fabric.

Twenty years after artist Christo and his late wife announced plans to drape the Arkansas River in Colorado with 5.9 miles of fabric, the project has hit one mo

Scientists and artists have more in common than one might think. Many techniques used by artists are just as indispensable for scientists, who use interesting i

Sure, they do a better job at posing for photos than discouraging birds, but this army of eclectic scarecrows installed at one of the Hudson's grandest historic

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.

The days' dappled sunlight complemented the nights' glowing trees at this music festival near Lake Michigan.

A giant floating sphere built from discarded umbrellas will next set sail on one of the country's most notorious Superfund sites: The Gowanus Canal.

The colorful world of topiary art starts with a plant and ends with a masterpiece. Here are 17 examples to inspire your creativity.

Rabbit Island residency programs encourage artists to incorporate conservation, ecology and sustainability into their work.

An eel named Miguel Wattson is behind the holiday display at the Tennessee Aquarium.

Scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator announced today (Dec. 13) that they'd narrowed down the possibilities for the existence of the elusive Hi

Recent studies by two teams of U.S. physicists who are also on the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as the "God particle") reinforced the

From chinstrap penguins to cuckoo bees, these kleptomaniac parasites rob their fellow critters for food and supplies.

From taming inflammation to battling PMS blues, it's time to celebrate these salubrious wonder roots.

From confounding dress codes to exclusion from many events, the road to gold for women has had plenty of quirky twists.

With the elephant poaching epidemic running rampant, experts fear for the future of these majestic mammals.

From liters of beer consumed to the number of missing dentures, the tallies behind Oktoberfest have much to reveal about the frisky folk festival.

Singing helps the spirit soar, but can it boost the body as well?

Confused by kohlrabi? Daunted by dandelions? We're here to help. Here's a handy guide to edible leafy greens.

Your indiscriminate flushing can clog pipes and hurt animals.

From when it happens to why – and everything in between – here's your crash course on the shortest day of the year.

Calories and exercise are key, of course, but these research-backed workarounds can help you reach your goals.

From what the new labels mean to how to properly apply it, here are the essentials to help keep your skin healthy in the sun.

Instead of 'climate change' or 'global warming,' new research finds another term might be more effective in capturing people's attention.

The world's most famous ring of standing stones has been studied for centuries, yet we learn something new about it all the time.