One of our lucky Facebook followers will have an organic backyard food garden created at their home by professionals.

Honeysuckle and lemon balm foraged from the backyard or your farmers market flavor this vodka cocktail.

Those herbs in your backyard can spice up so much more than just your dinner menu.

The Finns have a word for drinking alone at home in your underwear. What other cool foreign food words don't we have?

By analyzing ear wax from a deceased blue whale, scientists gained clues to years of chemical exposure.

Test your knowledge of the wild world of animal mating.

Whether you watch them at your backyard bird feeder or just see them when you're hiking, how much do you really know about our feathered friends?

Life across the globe depends on bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other pollinators. Test your knowledge about these vital creatures.

The online dictionary Dictionary.com added a number of popular words culled from headlines and social media. Can you define them?

Famed architect Renzo Piano completes a self-sustaining micro-home named Diogene.

Thousands of pounds of moldy cardigans and unsellable denim shorts are being burned in lieu of oil and coal at Västerås near Stockholm.

Ubiquitous Mardi Gras beads can be made of other things: Biodegradable seed bombs, anyone?

The dictionary's most popular word of the year has to do with waste.

You may love Amazon Prime, but the environment doesn't.

Getting along with neighbors can yield big health benefits for birds, a new study finds. It's probably good for us, too.

Wildlife biologist Steve Barlow has invented a nest box that can be added to utility right-of-way markers across the U.S. and Canada.

Think bird-watching is boring? It's not if you visit these 10 destinations during bird migration season.

A host of eco-features -- and the simple fact that the iPad delivers 3 devices in one -- may make it the greenest device of 2010. (Too bad Apple shareholders ar

Electronic waste recycling firm CloudBlue is now an e-Stewards Certified facility.

Casio shows off realistic animated messages at Consumer Electronics Show

A prototype wearable computer runs on its own OS, features 720p displays over both eyes and recognizes facial and hand movements.

Greenpeace reports what the world's leading consumer electronics companies are doing to address their environmental impacts.

A video capturing the screech-filled feud has gone viral.

A storm chaser captured stunning clear video of a perfect tornado in Wyoming.

A street dog named Mera tagged along with a expedition and climbed 23,389-foot Baruntse, a mountain in Nepal.

Bambu's green cutting boards encourage reducing and reusing -- because they're pretty enough to double as serving boards too.

Taking fish antibiotics instead of human drugs is a creative solution when money is tight, but it could lead to dangerous consequences.

Dream Green Organics offers luxurious organic cotton table and bed linens -- handsewn in California -- at won't-break-your-bank prices.

More and more independent restaurants are going hyper local by growing their own.

One company’s answer to the waste of plastic tasting spoons is simple but effective.

Meanwhile, a new Bayer-funded study disputes that its pesticide is killing bees.

Wild finches in the Galapagos made famous by Charles Darwin 'self-fumigate' their nests using human-made pesticides.

The pesticides, called neonicotinoids, are "highly likely" to be triggering bee deaths, say researchers.

Are aphids and other pests wrecking your garden? Partner up with ladybugs to stop the carnage.

France bans the use of pesticides in public parks and the sale of chemical pest-control solutions to amateur gardeners.

The Swirl Faucet also saves water, so long as you aren't completely beguiled by its beauty.

These gardens epitomize a balance between beauty and conservation, promoting smart water practices and boosting honeybee populations in the area.

Grey water — water from kitchen or bathroom sinks, bathtubs, or washing machines — can safely be captured and rerouted to the garden. Here's how.

When fingerprints fail, a map of your brainwaves could help keep your cyberworld safe.

The breakthrough will allow for stunning time lapses that reveal the behavior of electrons.

If you're careful, if you're vigilant, if you're nimble enough, you can stay safe online with better passwords.

Conservative saver? Risky investor? Results of a new study suggest that your position in the family line-up may drive your financial decisions.

The Harvard University endowment fund lost $10 billion in 2009. Unable to dump toxic investments, the university had to find new ways to recoup this 27 percent

This serene video from Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows a large herd of elk running across the landscape in Colorado.

The tardigrade, otherwise known as the water bear, is a very small but tough little creature, but new research has revealed their Achilles' heel.

At the SAME Café in Denver, Colorado, diners pay what they can for organic and local dishes.

You're bound to find something that piques your interest in this list of distinguished nominees for the top food awards.

Restaurants, chefs, and food writers received the highest honors in food during this past weekend’s James Beard Award ceremonies.

From two Apple expats comes the Nest Learning Thermostat, a cleverly intuitive household thermostat that picks up on your daily schedule as well as your heating

With the passing of its first major milestone, NASA is on track to replace its highly toxic fuel with a greener, more efficient one.