For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

Hubble's image of Messier 3 reveals what astronomers say is one of the prettiest "globular clusters" in the universe.

More than just a typical aurora, researchers have now figured what powers this stunning lightshow and where it comes from.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

A man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.

The project will take advantage of the sun, mountains and sea.

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

It's part of a much bigger energy transition, and sounds a lot like wishful thinking.

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

Sure, we'll be using oil for a while. But where, exactly, is demand growth going to come from?

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

Couldn't come up with a more succinct way of expressing this, so here it is direct from their website: "Central America has lost more than half of its rainforests in the last 50 years, contributing to mass extinctions and global warming. Rainforest

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

With the cost of cement electric power poles and

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.

Ramón Cruz has been growing oil palms for 37 years. He is a supporter of Rainforest Alliance's sustainable certification process.

Palm oil is found in nearly everything, yet have you ever wondered who makes it? how it's processed? what palm fruit looks like? Take a tour through a Honduran palm oil plantation to learn more.

The world mourns the loss of Berta Cáceres, an Indigenous woman who peacefully yet persistently resisted the destruction of waterways in Honduras for mining projects.

The kit includes an LED headlight and tail light and a rugged case that attaches a smartphone to the handlebars.

Researchers have developed a chip that can run off the low voltage deep within the inner ear.

Spark is a musical instrument that harvests kinetic energy when it's shaken, storing it in a battery for powering LED lights.

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.

The shiny sticker generates energy from movement.

Walking and other gentle movements could power the next generation of devices.

It goes from bland plastic to a thing of beauty.

Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.

A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.

Jason Aramburu is trying to revolutionize how we garden by expanding the production of "Black Revolution" biochar, a soil-less growing medium made from farm waste.

"The Ministry of Energy has insisted that they need this energy. What we are questioning is—how was the agreement reached, what is the cost of purchasing this power?"

Thousands of abandoned flipflops turn up on African shores--Ocean Sole recycles them into something good.

A new report calls for international collaboration to fight the crime organizations behind the illegal trade in wood and wildlife.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are banding together to combat unlawful timber products and curb deforestation.

A vagrant Cape Sea Lion that made a record trip to Kenya is rescued from a fisherman’s gillnet.

It was shot from "sea to summit" in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the most dynamic landscapes on Earth.

This endangered Hawaiian monk seal was photographed at the Poipu Beach Park in Kauai.

There’s some good news about the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

It's the first plant plant of its kind in the states that generates electricity from the temperature differences in the ocean.

This short film, while focused on the island of Kauai, highlights the challenges and crises we will all have to face on our island planet.

This is candy in its purest form -- certified organic ingredients, zero artificial colors and flavors, no preservatives or GMOs.

The new species endemic to the marine protected area expanded by Obama was named in honor of his efforts to protect and preserve the natural environment.

When sunscreen chemicals wash off beach-goers, they bleach coral, stunt its growth, and sometimes kill it outright.

Solar City and Tesla take the Kinks out of solar power with plenty of PowerPacks

It took three years, but Hōkūle’a made the impressive journey using only ancient Polynesian navigational methods.