In "Ajijaak on Turtle Island," a young crane's migration journey brings Native American stories to life.

Although the Tesla Roadster is already on the streets of America, one Motor Trend writer favors the upcoming Chevy Volt over the electric supercar.

Elon Musk went open-source at his other company, SpaceX, years ago. The aim here is to increase the appeal of electric cars in the marketplace.

Once used for gas storage, the skeleton of the Victorian structure now frames a circular park.

Which shortlisted bridge proposal for Tintagel Castle would King Arthur himself choose?

Preservationists suspect warmer-than-normal weather is to blame for the pests' proliferation.

Devil’s Den Spring in Florida is a premier diving spot hidden inside a sunken cavern.

The new time-lapse film features a tornado birth, lightning bursts and a rare 'fluid sunset,' all in 4K resolution.

Kombucha, the fermented tea drink that's exploding in popularity, was recently pulled from stores shelves across the nation after regulators found higher than e

As Memorial Day kicks off summer in the U.S., an American alligator sums up the moment by channeling Gallagher with an iconic summertime fruit.

Located down the road from the 2012 HGTV Green Home in the South's preeminent New Urbanist eco-community, the Bosch Zero Energy Home blends country charm with a

A freak summer hailstorm covers Mexico's Guadalajara in at least 5 feet of ice.

Deb Berlin is determined to soothe frayed nerves in Washington, D.C., through yoga, a practice she picked up in her teens.

Activists line up for different causes along different U.S. coasts to make sure that politicians know how they feel about methly iodide and a proposed pipeline

Senators tried (again) to sneak a last-minute approval for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline into a new transportation bill. But a record-setting 500,000 s

Ads supporting the pipeline are the work of 2 political offshoots of Zuckerberg's social welfare organization.

Jonathan Globerson's Greenerator concept allows apartment dwellers to harvest their own wind and solar energy from the comfort of their own balconies. But would

Smithsonian Channel special celebrates the surprising history behind the flag that inspired our national anthem more than 200 years ago.

He may not have won an Oscar, but the director of "Gasland" isn’t backing off the natural gas industry.

Wastewater storage from fracking may be causing earthquakes. For now, Arkansas is stopping operations.

Actor says $1 from every ticket sold will go towards relief efforts in devastated Japan.

Kids living just outside the evacuation zone will be tested for cumulative radiation exposure.

An inside look at the 4-year effort to restore Atlanta's Fernbank Forest, a 65-acre forest within the city.

With Pluto's unveiling on the horizon, here's a quick look at past and present efforts to study the elusive world.

NASA scientists hatch proposal to redefine what it means to be a planet in our solar system.

Garrison Architects creates a series of green modular structures to grace NYC's Sandy-ravaged beaches by Memorial Day.

A pair of preservation-minded architects are giving away a historic 1926 bungalow sold as a mail order kit home by Sears with one big catch ...

A messy winter storm is moving across the eastern half of the United States, threatening to delay holiday travel.

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.

Learn about the natural world past and present at these outstanding museums

In A.D. 536, a volcanic eruption sent a thick haze into the air that blocked the sun over Europe, the Middle East and some of Asia for 18 months.

Top polluters would pay $20 per ton of carbon emissions under the carbon tax plan, with 60 percent of the revenue returned to each U.S. resident.

Toyota has donated 4,500 free trees for this March's giveaway for New York City residents.

The Air Quality Egg was named one of Kickstarter's best projects of 2012.

U.S. federal budget woes are shrinking the monitoring network that tracks greenhouse gases such as methane.

The wooded area around the UK town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire has fallen pray to some amazing guerrilla art.

Federal law requires mining companies to restore strip mines to their original condition, but many don't bother.

Mountaintop removal mining has destroyed hundreds of mountain peaks and at least 1,200 miles of streams in the Appalachians, and remains a hotly contested issue

Sprint customers can get instant credit on their phone bills by recycling old phones at local stores.

Michael Pollan explains how public health problems in the past made food so cheap it started costing people their health.

BirdCast shows the volume and direction of birds in the U.S.

Brazen raccoon bandits may be trying to trying to send Toronto a message. They have been showing up in all sorts of places.

The Salvation Army's nonprofit grocery store, DMG Foods, has opened in Baltimore with help from the Maryland Food Bank.

Some are eyeing empty department stores as potential transitional housing for the homeless.

Danielle Fong was only 19 years old when she founded a technology company with the goal of perfecting green energy storage and utilization.

Two inventors have built a table-sized, automated factory that can quickly manufacture pocket-sized solar panels that last longer and are cheaper than current p

From pistachio shell-powered eco-cities to tiny houses on the moon, this spring certainly wasn't short on starry-eyed intrigue and bold ambition.

Two Toes, the original wiley coyote of the American West, is on the verge of howling on the silver screen.

This isn't your father's turbine. It can create more electricity at lower wind speeds and does a better job of predicting the supply of wind energy.