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.

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it.

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

Another look at a controversial housing project.

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

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.

Does it make sense putting this in a small town up on the Canadian Shield?

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

The Conga mine, which is majority owned by Newmont Mining Corp, would produce gold as well as copper and silver. Protesters are concerned the mine will contaminate their water and affect a major aquifer.

Just when it started to seem like we had mapped out pretty much all lifeforms on Earth, biologists say they have now found yet another ark-full -- and all in just one small region of South America.

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

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

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

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

Outfitted with GoPros and solar-powered GPS trackers, the crew of carrion-loving vigilantes is sniffing out illegal dumps in Lima.

Peruvian environmental authorities make a big statement with tiny turtles.

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.

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

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

The CDC has updated its US range maps to show the which mosquitoes are moving where.

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

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.

Pesticides make lawns unplayable.

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

When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

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