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

In an effort to promote awareness about declining bee populations, a market removes all the food that relies on bees from its produce department.

This colony of bees is rebuilding in a hollow log in Germany after the hive collapsed earlier this year.

Now's the time to make that dream a reality. Here are 5 cold-season tips to prepare for your first spring with a bee hive.

Australian scientists are attaching sensors to bees to track their movements and study colony collapse disorder.

The designer of the Bee Saver, a bioplastic keychain that contains artificial nectar, believes small acts can make a big difference.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

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

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

Kentucky's governor says the EPA is overstepping its bounds. Other groups contradict his claims of looking out for the environment.

Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell joins Morning Joe to discuss former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship and examining his role in the worst mining disaster in 40 yea

Supreme Court decides not to hear the case about a plan to build 'the world's largest garbage dump' near the iconic national park.

Environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. is fighting with community activists to save West Virginia's Coal River Mountain from the hands of major coal corporations t

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

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 crowd of farmers, environmentalists and community members gather at a May Day rally in Sydney to call for tougher mining restrictions to protect sensitive lan

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

Science has finally discovered the answer to the centuries-old question of how to turn something into gold.

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.

Basketball, mini-golf, a Ferris wheel, an underground lake and a spa are just some of the attractions found in this majestic 13th-century Romanian salt mine.

The mining project, one of the largest ever conceived, could hold $500 billion in gold and copper.

Jaguars used to roam all over the Southwest but now are an extreme rarity. And this unique cat is already threatened by the mining industry.

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?

It would take an extraordinary force of nature to blow one of these straw-stuffed brick abodes down.

We can't just build better; we have to change the way we live.

Kitchen exhaust turns out to be a very complicated issue where there is no real consensus.

Sandwich filling, side dish, and main dish recipes for the slow cooker that will keep you and your home cool this summer.

For starters, it's more energy efficient than a standard door that swings.

In a place where the streets flood with sewage after it rains, salvation may come in the form of a park.

Scenes of devastation along the state's Indian River Lagoon show hundreds of thousands of dead fish.

Advanced refrigeration system, nearly a mile long, is meant to keep contaminated water from the damaged nuclear plant from escaping into the sea.

William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor all died under suspicious circumstances.

"Ain't No Fish" is a stop-motion animated short film that uses a 1940s show tune to highlight ocean pollution.

Dubbed the "Jacuzzi of Despair," this lake on the ocean floor is made of heavy water rich with toxins.

Those who live in the Quebrada Camarones region of South America's Atacama Desert have a remarkable resistance to arsenic, which is in the water.

With fresh water supplies contaminated by Hurricane Irma, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees are bucking the rules to keep Key deer in Florida alive.

Conservation photographer Ben Von Wong's striking photo campaign aims to raise awareness of how microfibers from our clothes pollute the world's water.

Because of acidic water, volcanic fumes and too much carbon dioxide, you have to watch where you swim in some places in the world.

Untreated, unfiltered water is a pricey new trend that many are buying into — even though "raw" water could really cause you some harm.

159 coral reefs were examined in the Asian-Pacific region, and 89 percent of those reefs were contaminated with plastics and disease.

Direct-to-consumer water filter company Mesopaper removes a variety of contaminants without the mess, waste or high price tag.

If it isn't covered in toxic foam, Bellandur Lake in Bangalore is catching fire. The residents have complained

Made of plastic and metal, it harms our oceans just like microbeads.

Sewage in Mumbai's Thane Creek makes the city attractive to thousands of migrating flamingos, even though it's a turn-off for humans.

The oil leak may be releasing thousands of gallons per day, but after 14 years, it is finally at least partly contained.

Spanish endurance athlete Antonio de la Rosa is the first to cross the Pacific on a paddleboard.

It took a surprising amount of engineering magic to build a coffee cup suitable for those in zero gravity.

NASA's space shuttle Discovery is set to land in Washington, D.C. this April, where the now retired fleet leader — the world's most flown spacecraft — will