With DIY sunscreen recipes, you have no idea if you'll be protected from the sun's harmful rays.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Most people think their trash is history once it gets to the landfill.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Learn how your resource consumption is affecting the Earth.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Could your home go solar? Find out.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Learn how to easily recycle water in your house.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Don't sweat, try these simple tips in and around the gym.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: These helpful tips will keep you green and warm.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Save water around the house with very little effort.

Experts doubt the theory behind the 'happiness pie chart,' saying what you really can impact is how happy you are.

Toxic compounds called PFAS have been linked to cancer and immune problems, and they may also make it tougher to keep off weight.

As part of its mission to analyze Bennu, OSIRIS-REx has set a new record for closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft.

50 years after man first walked on the moon, the ripples of that accomplishment continue to inspire innovation.

Gather your friends, look up into the sky, and get ready to witness absolutely nothing.

Are you ready for one of the best meteor showers of the year? You've got that, Jupiter, and the Sturgeon Moon to look forward to.

Nieuwkoop, a sustainable community in the Netherlands, made the night skies safer for bats by using LED lights with a red glow.

From multiple meteor showers to a Hunter's Moon, here's what to spy in the heavens above this month.

Want to wish upon a shooting star? November is one month when you can definitely do that.

Annual celestial event often produces large bright fireballs that scorch the night sky.

Video: Move over, Georgia O'Keeffe! Masterpieces by Autumn de Forest have fetched nearly $250,000. She tells Matt Lauer, 'I love to paint' and 'I do it every da

More than 1,000 visual art submissions are narrowed down to 5 winners in a unique contest to find compelling images that can be persuasive voices for the enviro

"The Silent Evolution" by Jason deCaires Taylor is 400 permanent sculptures in Mexican waters.

TckTckTck's mosaic:EARTH combines 'deep zoom' technology with social action to encourage people around the world to join in the growing sustainability movement.

'Over the River' would suspend silver fabric over miles of Arkansas River.

At the Cancun climate talks, one art installation dominated the headlines at a turning point in history.

Experts of Paleolithic art in France say some cave drawings have a reoccurring theme.

Designer Benjamin Jones wants to erect the Sustainable TreeHouse, an eco-friendly 'interactive playground' on New York City's Governors Island. But he needs you

Artist Patterson Clark naturally 'harvests' areas plagued by weeds and uses the leaves, roots and stems of much-loathed plants to produce handcrafted art suppli

Here’s a look at 18 of the world’s most stunning treehouses and the unique stories behind them.

Alan Kimble Fahey, the hirsute ex-phone service technician behind a folksy, sprawling rural California compound known as Phonehenge West, is found guilty of vio

Enter The Nature Conservancy's digital photography contest for a chance to see your work on the cover of the nonprofit's annual calendar.

Here are 15 talented eco-artists who are redefining art's relationship with Mother Nature.

Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Aug. 14-20, 2011, including the not-so-nutty professor behind the The Periodic Table of the Elements an

Using a repurposed trash bin, Berkeley-based artist Gregory Kloehn creates Oscar the Grouch's dream home: A comfortable, one-room dwelling complete with hardwoo

A compilation of the best original stories from Mother Nature Network for the week, including Bear Grylls' eating habits, a webcam of Mount Everest and much mor

Some of NYC's oldest trees will get the appreciation they deserve with some creative lighting, poetry and more.

These artists used recycled pine, driftwood and waste timber to create their pieces.

Twenty years after artist Christo and his late wife announced plans to drape the Arkansas River in Colorado with 5.9 miles of fabric, the project has hit one mo

Artist Asher Jay's "Garbagea" confronts us with our throwaway culture in this creative project.

Miss the smells of home? Artist Kirill Rudenko is canning air from many of the world's major cities and selling it for 10 dollars a pop.

Scientists and artists have more in common than one might think. Many techniques used by artists are just as indispensable for scientists, who use interesting i

Sure, they do a better job at posing for photos than discouraging birds, but this army of eclectic scarecrows installed at one of the Hudson's grandest historic

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.

A showcase for American artisans, the virtual shop Catherine's Table is a warm and cozy ode to beautiful things.

The days' dappled sunlight complemented the nights' glowing trees at this music festival near Lake Michigan.

Creative upcycling leads to cellos made from oil cans and works created with plastic bottle caps.

Filipino artist and environmentalist Vincent Francisco Navarro paid homage to coffee farmers by painting portraits of them with used grounds.

These stunning busts are crafted using recycled circuit boards, CPUs, wiring, keyboards and other salvaged electronics.

The casualty list from the government shutdown earlier this month continues to grow for U.S. Antarctic science.

A giant floating sphere built from discarded umbrellas will next set sail on one of the country's most notorious Superfund sites: The Gowanus Canal.

In memory of his late wife, a farmer has spent 35 years planting and nurturing a guitar-shaped forest in Argentina.