Babies are small. They can occupy a small space.

This elegantly designed small space presents yet another solution for the bed: lifting it up to the ceiling and out of the way.

To gain more space, this apartment's redesign puts everything in the wall.

This well-crafted tiny dwelling has its own space-saving elevator bed that can go up and down with the push of a button.

One of the big NIMBY complaints about wind turbines is the constant blinking lights that make them visible to aircraft. A new sensor system would eliminate the nuisance, lighting the turbines only when planes are approaching.

The Nautilus shell-shaped turbines could fit on rooftops of houses or buildings in urban environments.

At 100 meters in diameter, wind turbines really are getting monstrously large. So what do they look like close up?

No turbine blades in sight.

The world's most powerful wind turbine to date backs up its massive size with serious power output.

One of America's fastest growing professions, wind turbine technician, attracts people with a unique set of skills, as demonstrated by climber and composer Jessica Kilroy.

Used clothing donations are more of a hindrance than a help, in the eyes of the East African Community. We need to listen to what they're saying.

We may be killing them at an abysmal rate, but these smart and social creatures seem to have a plan.

There's nothing like watching the sun go down on a beach in a tiny African village.

Mountain gorillas have become the only wild apes whose population numbers are known to be improving.

Half a century ago zebras were hunted to extinction in the region, now the area is being rewilded and the zebras are leading the charge.

Before 2015, the Mozambique reserve lost many thousands of elephants due to rampant poaching – now they’ve just had a full year without any illegal deaths.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

College students make waves for clean energy at IU, UK basketball games.

Sierra magazine released its 2012 Cool Schools list, and UC Davis took #1 - let's learn more about them.

The Post-Landfill Action Network, launched at the University of New Hampshire, challenges campuses across the continent to start tackling waste seriously.

Former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims sets out a sensible guide for why and how American parenting needs to change, if we truly want our kids to do well in life.

From boosting focus and cleaning the air to improving wellness in general, these easy indoor plants are a great addition to dorm decor.

Another phase of the wonderful Green Lane Project has just been announced, and PeopleForBikes has taken the opportunity to highlight biking and protected bike lane growth in the US through a new video.

Andrew Michler figures it out in his own home in Colorado.

Who said politicians never did anything good?

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.

As part of their More Than Just Parks project, Will and Jim Pattiz spent two years filming in the majestic Colorado mountains.

Designing kitchen ventilation that works in really tight houses seems almost impossible.

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.

This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft.

A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars.

We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.

Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.

Put your poop to work; it's fuel for a biological furnace.

Another look at what's out there in the world of composting and other alternative toilets

Was it design, or was it our resistance to change? What made the NoMix a NoGo?

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been

Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs.

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a

South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.

A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more.

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.