Program offers national recognition for kids working to make their world a greener place.

Schools are competing to generate the best recycling rates and the lowest levels of waste.

Midwest EPA office to host forum discussing environmental justice and children's health issues.

Your dutiful blogger has been evacuated from his home. However, it didn't stop me from taking a stroll along with banks of an infamously filthy canal in Brookly

New EPA report finds lower incidence of toxin exposures but greater rates of childhood diseases affecting today's children.

The slate of spending cuts could wreak havoc on everything from USDA meat inspections and FDA drug reviews to EPA research and national park staffing.

The EPA and State Department have now clashed over the proposed pipeline twice in two years, muddling recent indications that its approval might be imminent.

Bipartisan 'Chemical Safety Improvement Act' would require more safety regulation for chemicals while making it easier for those that pass to get on the market.

The U.S. Food Waste Challenge goes out to everyone with a stake in the U.S. food chain except individual consumers.

Residents living near Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal rally against a planned residential development that they believe will lead to increased flooding risk.

Elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in several classrooms have parents worried their children are at risk.

The imagery and placement of Leslie Fry's sculptures aim to increase awareness about the effects of human impact on the natural environment.

Water is humanity's most valuable resource. Want to green your usage? These ideas cost next to nothing and can each save 1,000 gallons a year.

Nobody likes bathroom clean-up, especially with harsh chemical products. Here are some cheap and natural cleaning alternatives.

Tofu makes a good substitute for eggs in this eggless egg salad recipe.

Imagine a smartphone for the visually impaired that has the tools most sighted smartphone users have come to take for granted

Ryan Nicodemus discusses how and why he and Joshua Fields Millburn left successful careers, ditched most of their stuff, and set up shop in a Montana cabin.

Cousteau announced a partnership with AdvisorShares Investments to leverage the might of Wall Street to finance solutions of global problems.

Entrepreneur Jonas Falk, 28, has grown a $20 million company, Organic Life, by serving great-tasting organic food at schools.

Pierre Calleja sees big things in microalgae – microscopic, single-cell plants with the potential to clean the air.

SRI, the system of rice intensification, has taken agribusiness giants by surprise with its record-breaking harvests across the globe.

The social workers have assisted veterans, children and families.

Wanted: Test scores from 1 million people as web-based research project aims to learn more about the region of DNA that determines how the brain works.

Vijay Brihmadesam, one of the minds behind Tava Indian Kitchen, has mastered the tasty and convenient fast-food market.

In the field or in front of the camera, these amazing animal conservationists have dedicated their lives towards protecting the Earth and its creatures.

It takes more than just dedication and intelligence to be a pillar of the community.

The mail subscription service combines high-tech analytics and personal stylists to send women clothes they'll love.

Media professional hopes to turn others on to farming with her new website.

A California couple helps veterans with PTSD and rescued wolves and wolfdogs forge lasting bonds that change lives.

The emerald ash borer, it turns out, is good eating, particularly among woodpeckers.

Nothing says "I'm single and ready to mingle" like a dose of salty digestive fluid. For sea lampreys, anyway.

The fungus behind white-nose syndrome has few weaknesses to exploit, a new study suggests.

Officials in Australia quarantine imported versions of the pop singer Katy Perry's latest album due to its seed-paper packaging.

Florida officials say they've bagged one of the biggest Burmese pythons ever found in the state: an 18.2-foot-long female weighing some 150 pounds.

No more escargot? An invasive worm known to have an insatiable appetite for snails is invading Europe.

The bat-killing fungal infection known as white-nose syndrome has been found in two new U.S. states.

New research could stop the spread of citrus greening, a disease that is killing Florida's oranges.

Giant African snails have invaded the Galapagos, but two rescued dogs are sniffing them out and helping researchers fix the ecology of the islands.

These deadly mushrooms have caused five deaths in California since 2010, and even experienced mushroom gatherers can misidentify them.

Feral cats cover a staggering 99.8 percent of Australian landmass, according to a new report in the journal Biological Conservation.

High winds and vacant land create the perfect recipe for tumbleweed terror in Victorville.

The 27-mile long electrified fence in Australia creates a predator-free area of almost 23,200 acres.

Citing a need to protect native species, this New Zealand town is proposing an all-out cat ban.

Video: Learn about ecoartspace and how that organization addresses environmental issues through the visual arts.

MNN co-founder and keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, Chuck Leavell, sat in with Jimmy's band on last night's show. And Fallon gave a shout-out to MNN.

Chuck Leavell, the keyboardist for the Rolling Stones and the co-founder of MNN, interviews Ovie Mughelli, the fullback for the Atlanta Falcons about his passio

Chuck Leavell recounts his most recent presidential run-in at the UN Climate Summit.

Long a subject of speculation, our neighbor has yet to yield signs of life. But that hasn't kept people from imaging it's there.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin says the $3.5 billion spent annually on the space station should go towards efforts to colonize Mars.

Finding water ice could change everything we thought we knew about the red planet, and make colonization feasible.