Handling small tasks immediately can boost well-being and reduce stress.

Using a kitchen towel for many uses can spread E. coli and get your family sick.

If you can't bring yourself to go all Marie Kondo on spring cleaning this year, try taking more attainable baby steps.

These tips should help you get pet hair off your dog, cat, house and clothes.

Despite warnings to keep detergent pods away from children, poison control centers are still besieged with calls.

'Inception' star chats with Bill Maher about colony collapse disorder and how industrialized farming is harming bee populations.

In the strangest — and only — urban agriculture hoarding tale we've come across, a Queens man is busted for having 45 unregistered beehives housing to 3 mil

Two major home improvement retailers in the U.K. pledge to pull gardening products containing bee-harming insecticides from their shelves.

Bees don't want to sting you. They have far more important things to do, like keep our agriculture system afloat.

When her concern about colony collapse disorder reached a peak, this writer put her deep, personal fear of bees aside. Sort of.

It could be that you need some bees, or that the weather hasn't been ideal, or your soil isn't right.

New research conducted in the UK reveals that diseases common in "managed" bees are now reaching wild populations.

Through the collaborative magic of crowdfunding, the Open Source Beehives project aims to bring downloadable beehive designs to citizen scientists everywhere.

With stingers that are harmless to humans, stingless bees could be the pollinators that save the day.

The apiarian artery is the buzziest infrastructure project in Scandinavia.

These epidemics have hit full force, with scientists scrambling to unravel the causes and, more importantly, the solutions.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

Ortho's decision to nix neonicotinoids is an important one.

Raymond Wang, 17, won prestigious $75,000 award for engineering a system to make cabin air safer.

Two college sophomores designed the gloves to make communication easier for the deaf community.

Robert Byrd's death will create a void that may directly affect environmental policy.

Mark Ruffalo, actor and environmental activist whose family lives in an area of upstate New York directly where "fracking" is a common practice, explains the da

Some see the EPA's regulation of mining in the region as federal overreach. Politicians are running against the agency in November's election.

Check out this wonderfully strange music about the Bagger 288, one of the largest mining excavators in the world.

Colorado's debate over uranium mines isn't that different from other energy debates around the nation.

New report lists the 10 places most threatened by a 100-year-old mining law. Some say it's time to update the rules.

Massey Energy kept two sets of safety log books at their Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died after an explosion last year— one for the fede

Fracking fluid, the liquid waste left over from the controversial mining technique, wreaks havoc on a plot of land in a test by the U.S. Forest Service.

You might remember the former U.S. senator from Idaho as the anti-gay politician who was arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom. He's back in Washingt

Science fiction dreams of mining riches from asteroids only make sense if humans can make it worth their time and effort. The new Planetary Resources group back

A new billionaire-backed venture announced today that it plans to use robots to mine asteroids for precious metals and in the process add trillions of dollars t

Human dreams of mining asteroids won't become a reality without space robots. The billionaire-backed company Planetary Resources has announced plans to do the d

A newly unveiled firm's asteroid-mining plans may be ambitious, but they're not any crazier than some extractive operations already under way here on Earth, com

Mining the plentiful resources of the moon and near-Earth asteroids could alter the course of human history, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy an

Private groups are shaping business plans to tap into the resource-rich environs of outer space. Early celestial targets with commercial cross hairs on them are

A new mine could provide 1,500 jobs, but protestors say the environmental cost is too high.

Deep Space Industries Inc. announced that it plans to harvest metals and water from asteroids within a decade.

The new company, Deep Space Industries, Inc., announced on Jan. 22 that it plans to mine asteroids for metals, water and other resources.

The 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 may harbor $65 billion of recoverable water and $130 billion in metals.

Researchers stumble upon a method that could replace toxic cyanide with plain old cornstarch.

The Caterpillar 797 is a 50-foot-tall dump truck widely used in the mining industry. Watch what happens when it faces off against a stationary Land Cruiser.

The nascent asteroid-mining industry is set to take its first steps into space this summer.

Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most destructive forms of resource extraction, and it's taking its toll.

Sand is becoming a rare commodity. That's because it's the most commonly extracted resource worldwide; more than oil, more than gold. 

University of Oregon architecture student Cameron Huber scores the top spot (and $2,000) in Hammer & Hand's beauty and brawn-seeking perFORM Design Competition.

Congratulations, washing machine, your lonely days are now over as clothes dryers have become, at long last, eligible for Energy Star certification.

Big Ass Fans unveils an exceptionally smart ceiling fan that learns to start to spinning the minute your sweaty bod enters a room.

Take a tour of Box Office, the first commercial office building in the U.S. built from retired shipping containers.

Who said old houses can't learn new energy-saving tricks?

Our houses are way more efficient than they used to be, but we're using more energy per capita than we ever have.