10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.

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.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...

It's déjà vu all over again, again! Auto dealers have been fighting Tesla Motors on multiple fronts for a while now, trying to either force them to do business with the traditional sales model, or be prohibited from selling in certain states.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

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

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?

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

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

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

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

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.

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

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

Almost two years after a ketchup snub sparked a patriotic backlash in Ontario, sales for French's ketchup remain strong.

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

They cry "freedom" for them to smoke, drink, drive really fast and fry the planet. Everyone else, get out of the way.

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

Oldest ever popcorn discovered in Peru tells the story of indigenous corn varieties versus gmo monoculture crops.

The new find may change anthropologist's conception of early Peruvian prehistory.

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

Designer Michelle Sheppard creates sustainable garments with a connection to cultural traditions.

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.

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves

Get rid of slugs (and snails) without the use of pesticides that harm beneficial creatures and pollute our waterways.

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

Need help paying attention? Cue up the cute baby animals.

With news that Southwest is allowing mini horses on flights, here's what to know about these petite equine wonders.

Norwegian architect Tron Meyer cuts a stair out of solid engineered wood.

Perhaps lofts are not the best solution for tiny homes and apartments.

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

It feels much bigger than it actually is, and does not feel weird at all.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

It seems that these days you can build just about anything with a CNC machine.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?

And believe it or not, it's environmentally friendly!

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

Spend 90 minutes in the eyes of an astronaut.