It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

It even has a giant 3D printed Jacuzzi tub

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

The 2019 solstice falls on June 21 ... celebrate with a crash course in curiosities about the longest day of the year.

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

A 18-foot-wide helix turbine specially designed for urban spaces has been installed on the roof of Progressive Field, ready to begin churning out energy on opening day.

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

One family’s farm Is leaving a lasting legacy of conservation.

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.

A new football stadium in Philadelphia is in the running for the unofficial title of "Greenest Stadium in America."

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

Partnering with a forest conservation non-profit to plant a tree for every watch purchased, Analog Watch Co. creates chic timepieces out of recycled wood.

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia, eating Philly Greens.

It's almost like there is a concerted campaign to turn distracted walking into a serious problem.

Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking!

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

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

If you could see "aural litter" you would be shocked at how much of it there is.

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it.

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

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

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?

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.

At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

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.

A skeleton of the bizarre land-walking whale provides answers about how whales first spread around the world.

Nicolas Laisné's vast project is a very different kind of office development.

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

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.