And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

The high tech answer to keeping you moving while working.

Switching to a standing desk doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

It is better than a fixed standing desk? They make a good case for it.

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them

Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?

Partnering with a forest conservation non-profit to plant a tree for every watch purchased, Analog Watch Co. creates chic timepieces out of recycled wood.

The Timber Towers Project seeks to demonstrate the viability of a mass timber high-rise.

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

Architects and builders take to the streets for the Extinction Rebellion, get arrested.

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

It is an eye-catching Kengo Kuma design, but it ain't sustainable.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.

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

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

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

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.

Kissing bugs can carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease, and they are now making their way through the US.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

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.

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.

This is a big problem in old buildings: providing universal access without ruining the look of the building.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

Hubble just took the most detailed image yet of the eerie and mysterious Ghost Nebula, some 550 light-years from Earth.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.