Vermont's Mount Stratton hosted a festival dedicated to yoga, meditation and overall mindfulness.

Sometimes movements that are barely noticeable can have the most profound effect, as these simple concepts show.

A simple arrangement of meaningful things can help us find inspiration in our daily lives.

The appeal of quiet, contemplative time lured her to yoga and ultimately transformed her life.

From the garden to your feet, cast-off yoga mats can still be useful in a variety of places. Here are some creative ways to repurpose your old yoga mat.

These simple yoga moves can you help ease pain, release tension and boost energy in the close confines of an airplane.

From ginger to exercise, natural methods may help beat cramps, bloating and other monthly symptoms.

These instructors are inspirational, and they've changed the world in their own particular ways.

A fitness studio and animal shelter team up to help rescue cats — and have fun doing yoga together.

Modern exercise tends to put health before stealth, but both are necessary for anyone who wants to become a ninja.

Yoga made a difference in physical health, flexibility and even pain levels.

Watch as this dog is guided through a series of yoga moves by his owner, Nic Bello.

New scientific evidence backs up the benefits of mindfulness meditation.

Quite a few poses take their names from wildlife, and there's an interesting reason why that's so.

There's a waiting list 1,000-people long to do yoga surrounded by goats in Oregon.

Farms offer stress relief yoga classes with the help of calming critters, like goats and alpacas.

Researchers reviewed more than 20 studies that investigated the effect that several types of meditation had on positive feelings.

Researchers find biological confirmation that yoga and meditation have a positive effect on mental health. Plus: 4 yoga moves that will reduce stress.

Meditation still works even if you can't completely clear your mind of distractions. Just keep gently pushing those thoughts away.

What is the upside and downside of cheap oil? Who is coming out on top and who is getting snowed under when oil is under $40/barrel?

A new Sierra Club campaign urges environmentalists to fight oil sands to preserve winter sports.

Actress one of 100 people detained today while protesting the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Tribal leaders are among the thousands of protesters who are trying to keep the Obama administration from giving the green light to a new pipeline.

The vice president has strong words about energy policy, but it's the administration's actions that have most in the environmental world concerned.

Actress partners with Natural Resources Defense Council, asking people to join her in opposing the $7 billion project.

An environmental group obtains emails that it says show "bias and complicity" in a government review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

New rules in Europe could effectively ban oil derived from 'tar sands,' prompting cheers from environmentalists but jeers from some Canadians.

Pixar Petroleum will manage the oil sands business for Paramount Resources, which has a long history of lifting names from Hollywood.

According to the GOP's favorite media mouthpiece, the Keystone XL pipeline would have created thousands, no- tens of thousands, no- hundreds of thousands, wait-

Senators tried (again) to sneak a last-minute approval for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline into a new transportation bill. But a record-setting 500,000 s

David Lillard writes about how his son's questions about the Keystone XL Pipeline led him to learn something new.

Washington Post energy correspondent Steven Mufson traveled the 1,700-mile path of the controversial tar sands pipeline.

Reporters for the online, nonprofit news site spent seven months reporting on tar-sands oil spill in Michigan.

U.S. pipelines have already sprung two major leaks in 2015, including the Yellowstone River's second oil spill in four years.

Researchers funded by NOAA record footage of a giant squid in U.S. waters, and the discovery is magnificent.

NOAA scientists capture video of a wreckfish swallowing a shark whole.

But protecting your skin and the reefs is possible.

Deep sea explorers capture video of a rare encounter with a piglet squid, so named because it appears to have a snout.

Deep in the ocean is a 'twilight zone' teeming with 1 million undiscovered species, yet fishing there isn't regulated.

New research from a team of U.K. scientists reveals that humpback whales share songs during their migratory travels in the South Pacific.

A rural town creates its own luck when it decides to embrace wind energy.

The Malawian inventor who built a windmill at the age of 14 stopped in last night for a visit with the Daily Show's Jon Stewart.

By good fortune, we happened to share our ferry to the windy, carbon-neutral island of Samso with the Danish prophet of renewable energy, Soren Hermansen, direc

Turbines in Denmark and Sweden throw off blades — a rare event, but one to consider as alternative energy use grows across globe.

Siemens recently broke ground on a wind power nacelle production facility in Hutchinson, Kansas; the facility will bring more than 400 green-collar jobs to the

It's ok to take a longer hot shower when your electricity is coming from the family wind turbine.

Controversial clean energy hits major setback from area Massachusetts tribes.

Select Ace Hardware stores will begin selling the new Honeywell WT6500 home wind turbine next month.

Wind farm power is significantly limited by how close one turbine can be to another. But a fish-like configuration could change all of that.

Video: Community college program trains future wind power technicians.