The British grocery giant hopes to prevent food waste.

With more composting and recycling, the city's eateries aim to send less to the landfill.

In keeping with this year's theme, the USDA and EPA are launching a challenge to reduce food waste at each step from farm to fork.

The USDA and EPA announced the U.S. Food Waste Challenge participants.

A round-up of stories addressing the global problem of food waste.

Created for World Environment Day, these videos illustrate the global issue of food waste with both humor and gravity.

The actor known for The Vampire Diaries and Lost joined today's World Environment Day celebrations in Barbados.

The soccer star arrived in an electric retro-fit Fiat Panda and attended a cooking demonstration.

South African women have had to change the way they approach showering, hair care, and menstruation, due to the lack of water.

It's time for action on the federal level.

This series of infographics reveals the bizarre discoveries made by volunteers during the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup.

Two teens send a powerful message about the effects of plastic pollution.

The global production of wine isn't keeping up with demand.

Fruit flies play a role in all those fruity flavors we detect as we take whiff of wine fumes. Find out how.

Fusing her own blends of recycled glass to create jewels of light and color, this artist's gorgeous mosaics remind us of the spirit of nature.

Like our houses and our cars and our donuts, everything is bigger these days.

Yesterday’s presidential election in Algeria was marked by a massive boycott campaign called for by the Hirak movement, which is now 43 weeks old. The boycott had been preceded by a four-day general strike and was particularly strong in the Kabylie region. Tens of thousands came onto the streets across the country defying a police ban on demonstrations. Whoever the generals decide will be the country’s president, they will not have any real legitimacy.

From foxes and falcons to otters and owls, the USDA program is doing away with wildlife in droves.

Using recycled materials and audio recordings from refugees, this exhibition hopes to deepen understanding and connection with those who have had to flee their home countries.

Vegan burgers, sausage, deli slices, roasts, seitan, and even jackfruit are moving to the meat department at the nation's leading grocery retailer.

I don't think it would actually work, but it is an innovative way of reskinning buildings

Using a series of overlapping mezzanines and spaces, this accessible, urban housing prototype explores the possibilities of living small but comfortably in the city.

A species of wasp discovered in Thailand has been named for evil spirits invented by J. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books.

Our photo of the day comes from beautiful Erawan National Park in Western Thailand.

This experimental co-living design scheme aims to foster communication, responsibility and human relationships.

Researchers in Austria put this question to the test.

We should follow in the footsteps of many great thinkers and implement regular rambles into our lives.

Who would have imagined that this would happen so fast?

The LED revolution will not be stopped.

Calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from LA residents who described seeing a “giant silvery cloud.”

The only downside, of course, is that your self-lit holiday centerpiece actually would be a Frankenstein tree.

This design is a hybrid of existing concrete sea defenses that can hold a mangrove seedling inside.

Finally, one nation is taking firm, clear action toward going plastic-free.

This apartment's new design unifies the small space with a simple palette of materials over three levels.

An old basement is transformed into a beautiful new shared multipurpose space for working, learning and leisure.

Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker

In our conventional, resource-intensive food and building industries, 'waste-free' may seem like an alien concept, which makes projects like Australia's Greenhouse all the more impressive. Touted as a

The Resilient Design Institute suggests we should all have six weeks of food in our homes. Too much or too little?

Bananas are already in a perfect package. But is this even better?

Our photo of the day comes from the 15th oldest U.S. national park.

We recently told you of a study warning that global warming could prompt the large-scale collapse of the world's crops by 2080; now comes another study concluding that rising levels of ozone could achieve the same result by century's end. The study,

Good news: The ban on CFC-based asthma inhalers is rapidly approaching. Inhalers are going green and by December 31, all inhalers must be powered by hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) instead of the ozone-harming chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

In July of 2007, the East Coast was slammed by a record-setting heat wave. From New York City to Washington, DC, temperatures averaged above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, causing more than 40 deaths.

In late September, NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite will crash into Earth. Weighing more than 1,300 pounds and roughly the size of a school bus, the satellite will likely land somewhere between Canada and South

There's been lots of back and forth in the past year on biochar, ranging from research showing it has huge potential for absorbing carbon emissions on one side, to uncertainty about its potential, to outright

One of the more invasive geoengineering methods that's been proposed to avert global warming is spraying clouds with seawater to whiten them, reflecting solar radiation. New research presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting urges caution

If good design means longevity, Hubble is well on its way to redeeming the missteps that required high-tech space missions for vision correction before it could serve its purpose. Could it be a coinicidence that Hubble

Can humans endure the isolation, self-reliance, and deprivations of travel to Mars and back? Six pale-faced but smiling astronauts answer the question.

A breakthrough in controlling yeast with computers gives a glimpse at where science is headed with controlling lifeforms.

Some new research looks at the unintended consequences of injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block solar radiation and cool the planet, finding that doing so could turn skies everywhere into a brighter, whiter, hazier, ugly mess.