They are as gutsy and gritty as ever.

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

A great demonstration of how to develop tiny lots.

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

There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem?

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

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

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

Another look at a controversial housing project.

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

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.

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

It's being killed the name of "convenience."

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

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

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

Peruvian environmental authorities make a big statement with tiny turtles.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.

From supermoons and blood moons to black moons and blue moons, here’s a cheat sheet to the full moon in all of her luminous guises.

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

More than just a typical aurora, researchers have now figured what powers this stunning lightshow and where it comes from.

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.

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).

A travel writer captures the beauty of Iceland's wilderness, but will these natural wonders exists for much longer?

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

Oil and gas companies have until 2023 to make 'Paris compatible' plans, or face divestment.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

Current events could lead to another oil embargo by Saudi Arabia, and it could be 1973 all over again

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000

With the cost of cement electric power poles and

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.

A new wearable sensor technology that measures things like stance and force for sports also has the potential to harvest energy from waves, machinery or human movement.

The researchers have developed a fuel cell that creates electricity from urine and could be used to power our gadgets.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers uses ultra-thin, flexible materials to generate electricity from body heat.

We often write about technologies that harness energy from your steps. Here's how you can make your own piezoelectric sneakers at home.

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.

A community soccer field in Rio de Janeiro stays well lit at night thanks to energy harvesting tiles laid under the turf.

Walking and other gentle movements could power the next generation of devices.

Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.

Composting toilets have a lot of benefits. But can they really help save hippos?

A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.

Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group responsible for Saturday's attack in a Nairobi mall, receives significant funding from the illegal poaching. This is why the US sees wildlife trafficking as a national security issue.

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.