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?

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...

It's déjà vu all over again, again! Auto dealers have been fighting Tesla Motors on multiple fronts for a while now, trying to either force them to do business with the traditional sales model, or be prohibited from selling in certain states.

The wood and plastics industry prefers Green Globes and is designing laws around it. Paging Jerry Yudelson.

The mixing of old and new is one of the toughest things to deal with in architecture. Do you try to blend in, doing faux old, or stand out in contrast? Does everything get perserved in amber or can

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

It's almost like there is a concerted campaign to turn distracted walking into a serious problem.

Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking!

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

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.

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.

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

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.

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

Almost two years after a ketchup snub sparked a patriotic backlash in Ontario, sales for French's ketchup remain strong.

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

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

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

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

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

Designer Michelle Sheppard creates sustainable garments with a connection to cultural traditions.

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

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

Pesticides make lawns unplayable.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

Did you know that cheetahs sound a lot like your housecat?

This multifunctioning stair hides a generous bookcase underneath.

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

Architect Tamir Addadi squeezes a lot into a very small space

And when you get to the top of this, you deserve a treat.

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

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

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).