Here's our list of royal gardens to consider adding to your Best-of-Britain tourist itinerary.

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

Environmental Working Group's newest sunscreen guide rates the safest sunscreens and calls out bad practices (like too-high SPFs.)

In 2015, Albuquerque launched an innovative program aimed at helping the area's homeless. Instead of ticketing panhandlers, city officials offered them jobs.

The new and highly Instagrammable interactive exhibition in Miami Beach receives a violation for generating marine debris.

Alternative energy sources that are cost-competitive with fossil fuels may be closer to fruition than previously thought. Recent studies from global leaders in

A new world record is making the future of solar energy look pretty bright.

Wind energy may be cost efficient, but it's costing us over half a million birds each year.

2012 saw the highest rate of alternative, renewable energy sources in the United States.

Wind power critics argue that turbines kill birds. So why is the U.K.'s largest bird charity planning a turbine?

In addition to buying energy from Altamont Pass wind farm, Google is financing upgrades that will save thousands of birds' lives.

Is getting shiny kitchen and bathroom fixtures really as easy as rubbing a fresh lemon on them? Our food blogger finds out.

From gift boxes to fun furniture, there are all sorts of inventive ways you can use handy chalkboard paint.

Here’s a look at the psychology behind hoarding, how it differs from collecting and ordinary clutter, and how to keep untidiness to a minimum.

Hoarding is a vicious cycle of anxiety, indecision and, finally, comfort that sends hoarders' brains into overdrive, a study finds.

Despite warnings to keep detergent pods away from children, poison control centers are still besieged with calls.

Researchers make headway in fight against devastating disorder by breeding bees with the ability to seek out and remove varroa mites.

In the strangest — and only — urban agriculture hoarding tale we've come across, a Queens man is busted for having 45 unregistered beehives housing to 3 mil

Police are looking for suspects in the apian assault.

Researchers hope to create a sperm bank to breed hardier bees and preserve threatened subspecies.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

Robert Byrd's death will create a void that may directly affect environmental policy.

English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett smelt his own iron ore to create his knightly sword.

Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell joins Morning Joe to discuss former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship and examining his role in the worst mining disaster in 40 yea

Robert Redford shares why he has joined the fight against the coal mine.

Just in time for the conservationist president's birthday, the U.S. unveils a plan to freeze uranium mining near one of his favorite places: the Grand Canyon.

Buried deep in your cellphone, laptop, and flat-screen television are a bevy of obscure elements that make our modern lives possible.

Neolithic humans in the Wadi Faynan region of southern Jordan may have polluted the river while first learning how to smelt.

Spanish endurance athlete Antonio de la Rosa is the first to cross the Pacific on a paddleboard.

The Shenzhou 10, along with its three crewmembers, returned safely after 15 days of space travel.

Gordon Fullerton, an Apollo-era NASA astronaut who was among the first test pilots to fly the space shuttle, died on Aug. 21.

A miniature space farm, robot legs, and microbes collected by cheerleaders are just a few of the odd passengers headed to the International Space Station.

There are many ways to map an area's sunlight exposure. Here are a few tips to make sure your plants get their moment(s) in the sun.

Punta Gorda, a sleepy Gulf Coast getaway north of Fort Myers, shines bright as Babcock Ranch, a solar-powered eco-town, attracts its first residents.

Greenpeace's Deepsea Desperation lets you challenge a friend for domination over ocean territories. Will you play Greenpeace or Big Oil?

The Gulf oil spill helps BP nab the 2010 Accidental Earth Experiment Award — for creating 'unique data scientists can use to study the Earth.'

Planet Green to premiere new documentary about the impact on Gulf residents of the largest oil spill in American history.

Journalist Kate Sheppard covers the world of climate change, politics and energy for Mother Jones magazine.

Shipwrecks are a ticking time bomb of oil waiting for the sea to finish eating through their corroded tanks.

Jason Alexander Byers uses an unusual material to make an environmental point.

I had no idea the Mother's Day gift idea I came up with some 16 years ago would've been such a hit with my mom.

So that you don't wind up gifting an awesome mum something too sentimental and/or last minute, a few singular Mother's Day gift picks ...

The Canary is a smoke and carbon monoxide detector-cum-air quality analyzer sporting good looks and remarkable smarts.

This high tech billboard can do the work of 1,200 trees, scrubbing the air of pollutants.

The WELL standard picks up where LEED and other standards fear to tread.

Sudan and two females of his subspecies are under constant surveillance in Kenya, but it may not be enough to save the northern white rhino from extinction.

The giant bug, Lord Howe Island stick insect, was rediscovered in the early 2000s, and now scientists have confirmed it's in fact them.

This is the first photograph ever taken of the bizarre and mysterious species, Thismia neptunis.

BirdLife International has confirmed the extinction of eight bird species, including the Spix' macaw in Brazil.

Spruce up your backyard with this must-have bird feeder.