Many beloved matrimonial customs, from bridesmaids to the garter toss, got their start for some pretty disturbing reasons.

Bipartisan 'Chemical Safety Improvement Act' would require more safety regulation for chemicals while making it easier for those that pass to get on the market.

Apex Logistics employees converted a storage space into every college man's dream hangout, complete with pinups and gym equipment.

Social entrepreneur harnesses the power of stories to help illiterate communities leverage their ingenuity to find solutions to local problems.

By keeping out invasive cats, rats and other predators, a new fence on Kauai is helping a rare bird bounce back.

People in France have been reporting sightings of bright, hungry predatory worms since 1999.

Watch Chuck perform at the Fortune Brainstorm: Green.

'White Mars,' as Antarctica is known, is ideal for studying the long-term effects of isolation.

Finding water ice could change everything we thought we knew about the red planet, and make colonization feasible.

September event sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than anything previously observed.

Dust storms like this might provide hints about what happened to the water on Mars.

'Golden Boy' star Theo James hates waste.

He plays a KGB spy in 'The Americans'.

Billy Burke ('Twilight') returns in 'Revolution'.

A new George Clooney film and a National Geographic documentary tell the true story of the art experts who foiled Hitler in World War II.

This one tip can save up to 20 percent of the energy your refrigerator uses.

They may not be as well known as Rachel Carson or Jane Goodall, but they've contributed in profound ways to the environmental movement.

From the earliest efforts at clear-cutting to our continued assault on national lands, we love our forests ... even as we continue to put the squeeze on them.

NRDC founder John H. Adams details the history of the environmental nonprofit -- and the modern environmental movement.

President Obama's power plant plan has gotten plenty of blowback from coal-state politicians, but it's popular with Americans.

In a surprise announcement, Earth's two largest economies revealed a game-changing agreement to cut carbon emissions.

Tattoo may provide an inexpensive and noninvasive method for testing blood sugar levels, without the finger prick.

Cardborigami's clever folding shelters offer the displaced a surprisingly sturdy alternative to tents.

The ACES (aka Waxman-Markey) bill passes the house, but not all environmental groups are rejoicing.

The Pennsylvania Republican is a solid pick for social conservatives, but what are his views when it comes to environmental policy?

Tour a LEED Platinum certified denim factory. The VDS Group factory in Bangladesh received LEED Platinum certification.

If it meets the goal, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will be the largest net-zero energy use museum in the nation.

In observation of one of the original New Urbanist-style planned communities' 75th anniversary, Norris, Tenn. gets a self-sufficient prefab demo home.

This 60-second video is like watching everyone's lives flash before your eyes.

From curious kid to giving back, to advisor to Apple computers, Jackson shares her path to leadership.

Filmmaker Mark Kitchell talks to MNN about the need to understand the birth and life of the green movement in the U.S.

The Danes are helping kick-start Colorado's green energy economy.

The latest assault on ethanol subsidies comes from one of the nation's leading newspapers.

MNN rounds up some of the Web's most useful tools for shrinking your footprint.

This month, scientists and tree lovers celebrate the 2nd birthday of a hybrid chestnut tree that may be a force in reducing the impacts of climate change.

Electric cars are really shooting off into the stratosphere, and it’s all Elon Musk can do to keep up.

Sky City was supposed to be 220 stories and this building was supposed to be 97 stories; but there's more to building than just technical innovation.

Here are 10 historic shopping centers that are still thriving today.

White Oak in Florida promotes conservation with innovative programs for animals (and the humans who want to see them.)

Combine food shopping and gift shopping this year by taking advantage of a well-stocked grocery store.

Lynn Henning, a country farmer, wins the Goldman Prize for battling a massive factory cattle operation that was polluting once fertile farms in Michigan.

From an eco-city in China to a coffee producer in Uganda to 'towers of power' in Spain and California, some good news from the green frontier.

In a new study, physicians predicted about 55 percent of patients would be "likely" or "very likely" to follow their recommendations for losing weight, eating h

The U.S. has become the pre-eminent blocker to this year's UN climate negotiations, but new scientific analysis and a growing civil society movement could force

Little by little the Obama administration is clearing the way for CCS.

For political purposes, a West Virginia senator is giving the EPA a little breathing room -- for now.

The Mongol invasion scrubbed nearly 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, according to new research.

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council details the staggering environmental cost of DVRing 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' every week.

Watch how this small, but fast-growing, Maine brewery is rolling sustainability into their operational DNA.

Fran Drescher and Ed Begley, Jr. among celebs at Global Green Millennium Awards.