You'll be surprised at the decorative potential contained within the recycling bin.

From sleep aids to pain relievers, here's how to grow your own natural remedies.

A new study reveals stress-reducing benefits for office workers when even just viewing a small plant on their desk.

Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

Why aren't people lining up for this enclosed solar powered e-cargo tricycle? It pushed every button.

Bill Murray looks like he is enjoying the ride. Others might go a bit faster.

Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

The flood of toxic red sludge, which burst forth from a containment pond in Ajka, Hungary and covered several villages earlier in the week, reached a branch of the River Danube today. According to the head of the

Santa & Cole takes its environmental policy one step further by obtaining the Cradle to Cradle Certification (C2C) for its 100% Aluminum NeoRomántico Liviano Bench

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.

Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.

Is this really the future we want?

Declawing cats often leads to long-term pain and unwanted behaviors.

This vegetarian tidepool dweller could be an answer to dietary protein in times of climate crisis, but who could ever eat a charmer like this?

In order to prevent future pandemics, we need to change our relationship with wildlife

The underwater data center is an innovative attempt by the company to create more sustainable, energy efficient data centers.

Now you can handwrite letters on your computer.

The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.

Telecommuting just isn't fashionable anymore; the "water cooler effect" is.

The tech giant just agreed to purchase all of the energy from GE's Tullahennel wind farm.

The action will prevent 10 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

This is the second deployment of the tech company's underwater data center project.

Our photo of the day is a lesson in efficiency.

Our photo of the day comes from Merced, California.

Our photo of the day comes from Jackson County, Oregon.

Plenty of clever spatial overlaps and multifunctional pieces of transformer furniture in this renovation of a 376-square-foot apartment in Melbourne.

An existing 1960s studio apartment in Melbourne has been transformed into a more efficient one-bedroom apartment.

After a few big players entered the ring, the environment was spared some 1.5 billion plastic shopping bags in under 100 days.

This apartment's built-in 'function wall' maximizes a small space by incorporating sleeping, sitting and storage.

This redesigned space in a 1920s Art Deco building features a new layout that better maximizes space and light.

Forest ecosystems sequester large amounts of carbon in vegetation and soils, off-setting the carbon emissions we produce and mitigating climate change. The boreal forest and its associated wetlands, in particular, provide critical carbon storage ...

Though it sounds like a technical term more suited for computer programming, avicaching is actually a growing practice that encourages birders to collect and share their data from bird-watching through an internationally known phone app.

As we recognize African American History Month, it is important to highlight a lesser known part of this history - the legacy of forest ownership among the black community, and the leaders who are working to preserve it.

Despite a great need for future leaders in sustainable forestry, there are difficult barriers for many youths interested in pursuing related degrees. The Multicultural Apprenticeship Program (MAP) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks to change that.

Oh, the farmer and the oilman should be friends. But they are fighting over ethanol.

But is that a bad thing?

Researchers find that dogs can be trained to sniff out the bacteria that causes citrus greening, with 99+ percent accuracy

But Amazon has some work to do.

Allison Arieff asks that and a lot of other questions.

They may be giving up four walls, but they are getting a lot in return.

At a recent talk Chamath Palihapitiya said he "doesn't use that sh**" and his kids aren't allowed to either.

It is a giant electric radiator that they forgot to turn on due to a software failure.

Many parents who work in the tech industry are opting to go screen-free at home.

We all know the palm oil industry has a horrible reputation for deforestation. The Rainforest Alliance, however, believes that change can happen from within and that sustainable palm oil production is attainable.

And what happened to the guy who won the six figure salary to serve as caretaker of a barrier reef island anyhow?

A new study predicts that up to 21 million acres of rubber plantations will be required to meet our growing needs, spelling doom for biodiversity in parts of Southeast Asia.<

Here's a glimpse of what life is like during Southeast Asia's worst fires in more than a decade.