The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed

One more US city fully commits to transforming itself into a better place to live for all.

Climate action is about to get radical.

Using officially documented research and color-it-yourself data visualizations, this project aims to convey climate change data in an engaging way.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

Provoked by questionable propaganda, a group of scientists is setting out to offer an antidote.

The show gets a lot right about climate change, Al Gore and Manbearpig, but it misses something major about human nature.

Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The

Metals from Cambodia's mines, left buried since its civil war, are recycled into elegant jewelry, made by locally trained and fairly paid artisans.

Fast fashion hurts real people, as this online series challenges three unsuspecting youngsters to go meet and work with the people who make their clothes.

It uses twice as much water and releases 800,000 more plastic microparticles per load than a regular cycle.

It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.

Leed is for wimps; the Living Building Challenge really pushes the building envelope.

"This is our last chance to avert a climate disaster. We must act now."

Everybody knows that change is happening, but thanks to the fossil fuel economy, we are all having such a good time.

One little trip can blow you right out of the water.

This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks

During a recent interview, BMW chief executive Norbert Reithofer revealed that the German automaker was considering bringing a battery-powered vehicle to the U.S. market by 2012 in an effort to meet more stringent

Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year

Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last few years, steadily gaining acceptance as a practical and sustainable form of transportation. This is especially true in cities, where most trips are short and space is at a premium.

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

The BMW i8 is now in production, and final i8 details have just been unveiled.

If you'd like a close-up view of the BMW i8 electric sports car manufacturing process, here are the goods.

No "do the bright thing" for cars; instead, the BMW X6 designed to "look particularly menacing."

Ecological footprint: what is it? An analysis that gauges our impact on the planet's biological systems, the ecological footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.

Women are more affected by climate disruption worldwide, so their voices must be heard.

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.

For those who say it's too difficult...

Buying products from solar farms is just one more way to support clean energy.

It's a good thing global fish stocks aren't in peril...

Sometimes we should just let a bad idea die.

Can we hear them saying, "I told you so!" to the rest of the outdoor gear industry?

Keep your plants in fighting shape, even after the first frost sets, with a geodesic-dome greenhouse of your very own. And raise a homegrown cantaloupe to Buckminster Fuller while you're at it.

Scott Parenteau welds it all together from scrap metal and dishwasher parts at Maker Faire.

Combining computer-aided parametric design and the design principles of tensegrity (tensional integrity), this experimental pavilion tests the boundaries of building a stronger structure with less material.

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A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened.

They were wonderful mathematical constructs, but they are terrible buildings.

A last-minute menu change has switched out fish for mushrooms.

The device uses a tablet or smartphone to connect you with your pet during the day, give it treats and make sure it's not tearing up the furniture.