After evidence that China violated the treaty intended to protect the earth's ozone layer, the country has leapt into action.

Rethinking hospitality in the context of less is more

Is the idyllic, organic farm worse for our balance with nature?

It is estimated that one worker dies every 15 seconds from toxic exposures at work

William Nordhaus und Paul Romer

Coal for Christmas, but not for being naughty. Germany commemorates the end of an era as the last black coal mine closes.

George's species fell victim to cannibal snails introduced to combat African snails, one of Earth's worst invasive species

German research on trendy craft brews proves how to optimize the craft beer experience

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -- Mary Oliver

This study provides shocking statistics on unsafe motorist behavior, but aims to give urban planners new tools for safer shared roads

It's got everything: “Design, construction, love, betrayal, and eventually murder. Just a typical architectural project.”

Sustainability matters, but so does hypocrisy.

Sometimes we have to decide between "neighborhood character" or carbon emissions and density. A new Passive House in Vancouver is a good example.

A minimalist and discreet addition to some exuberant older houses.

Oliver Wainright of the Guardian calls for a rethink of the way we put buildings together and take them apart.

Digital photography has made us lose the wretched chemicals and excess paper of the Polaroid era. So if you want to save a summer memory, you can do it in organic chocolate.

Honeybees in France are producing unusual-colored honey. Their sweet tooth may be to blame.

Get your dark chocolate fix with less guilt. Balance Bar introduces a new energy bar featuring sustainably farmed cocoa beans.

A response to Black Friday and Cyber Monday with the goal of inspiring conscious consumerism.

When you're biting the head off a chocolate bunny this weekend, the last thing you want to be thinking about is whether your sweet treat was the product of child slave labor. Don't let that happen to you. Buy good chocolate, people!

You don't want to ruin the romance with a gift contaminated by child labour and slavery.

There's already a global cocoa shortage, but prices haven't risen enough to make it worthwhile for cocoa farmers. They're switching to rubber instead.

It's hard, in these days when we worry about sugar and additives and obesity. What to do?

I've eaten a lot of fabulous fair trade chocolate, and this is undoubtedly the yummiest I've ever had!

As you spoil mom on Mother's Day, amplify your appreciation by opting for Fairtrade products that will turn the day into something even more meaningful.

This woman-owned business is making some of the best chocolates on the planet, using Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa to craft a line of luxurious truffles and bars.

Researchers from the University of Maine have linked habitual chocolate consumption to improved cognitive function.

Unless we start paying cacao farmers more, we could be inadvertently contributing to the end of chocolate as we know it.

A report reveals that major chocolate companies buy cocoa from illegally-cleared national parks in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Companies and governments in West Africa and Europe are finally saying no to cocoa grown on deforested land.

Mighty Earth has released a scorecard for chocolate brands and retailers to help you make a good choice.

After decades of promising reforms, chocolate companies have failed to deliver.

The World Cup is starting: here's a football they won't be wanting.

The creation of a summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is an annual tradition; and this year it's weird.

See this fascinating documentary about the dedicated man who created a forest the size of Central Park.

What could be lovelier than a butterfly; even when it is made out of a can of beer.

This celebration of buses makes a BUS stop a special place to meet.

It's a place to get and replace free books, and the architecture is local to each town.

What a way to master the arts of carving and design: one a day for a year.

Bees, ivory poaching, and war are amongst the themes portrayed in this year's shortlist.

The small gardens are new and innovative and changing the way we look at them.

But hey, what’s wrong with formaldehyde? It’s in our breath, our apples and our trees.

Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds are in everything from your dust bunnies to your dental floss.

It's what we have called dematerialization, as all that is solid melts into apps

Solidia Technologies' chemistry could make concrete almost benign.

I am not convinced this can work but I will give it a try.

Beck nails it again with the Automated Nailing Head.

Who needs concrete when this foundation design will take the load?

I am beside myself with excitement over drywall and linoleum.

The Danby Parcel Guard reduces the waste of stolen packages and multiple deliveries.