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

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

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

Of all the places to take action on marine litter, this one makes the most sense.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

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

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

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.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

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.

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

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

The CDC has updated its US range maps to show the which mosquitoes are moving where.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.

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

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

When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.

A mixture of leftover citrus rinds and vinegar is an easy, food-safe way to cut ants off at the pass.

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

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

With news that Southwest is allowing mini horses on flights, here's what to know about these petite equine wonders.

Belgian architects build a tower in a barn. But my, it uses a lot of lumber.

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?

There's more than one way to go up in a small space, and this is one smart alternative.

This is a big problem in old buildings: providing universal access without ruining the look of the building.

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

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.

Hubble's image of Messier 3 reveals what astronomers say is one of the prettiest "globular clusters" in the universe.

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.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Using the flow of water inside the pipes to power the water network's own monitoring devices could eliminate the need for batteries in those systems.

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 man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.

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

For backpackers wanting something other than solar power.

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.

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?

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

Drivers of traditional "ICE" cars often underestimate the convenience of going electric.

Petrochemicals are becoming increasingly important to the oil industry as cars go electric.