Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.

Looking to reduce waste, increase local food security and create a "circular economy," this permaculture project is growing food in the Arctic.

A team of scientists have developed a novel way to determine the age of these long-lived marine animals.

NASA's monthly Puzzler is meant to puzzle readers; this one has the experts puzzled as well.

The laser-outfitted satellite will be able to pick up shifts in the ice on a very small scale.

A new NOAA report reveals we've lost 95% of the Arctic's oldest, thickest sea ice. Here's what that looks like.

70% of this potent pollutant comes from fossil fuels, not biomass burning.

Besides the usual hidden storage and mirrors to enlarge the space, this redesigned layout includes a slight rotation to improve circulation.

How do you make good design accessible to people with small spaces and small budgets?

A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.

This is, whether we like it or not, the future of furniture design.

It's a nice idea, but it needs a bit more rigor.

How to choose things for your home that have had, or can have, second lives.

Is it doing the same for people?

Here's a lovely renovation using the healthiest materials, and as few of them as possible.

The LightCycle follows our circadian rhythms via your phone and GPS.

Every year we go look for the latest in sustainable design. Every year the post gets shorter.

The late artist Chris Burden balanced a Porsche 914 with a meteorite.

Pigeons live large in these big artworks that celebrate the remarkable qualities of these overlooked birds.

These pink and blue-tinted photographs suggest that our biology has a big influence on the way we perceive reality.

Made with beads, yarns and other fibers, these hybrid sculptures seem to transform before your eyes.

The wonderful world of birds, painted in life size and all together on a huge 2,500-square-foot wall.

Let's just say up front that nobody claims the Inauguration will be deep green - events like this, by their very nature, require a huge amount of car and plane travel, entailing a corresponding belch

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a

Amid the over-upholstered and garishly gilded furniture at the Istanbul Decoration and Design Fair hid some ingenious gems -- designers working with recycled and alternative materials and creating multi-purpose furniture for small spaces.

Thinking about making a move into a home, but really, really want a green space? We stumbled across the perfect (little) eco-home.

Apple remains our culture's most lauded example of great design. But could it be that the company considered to have reached the pinnacle of design is, in fact, an impostor? The definition of good design is changing. It used

Lace is back! A while ago Lloyd wrote about the California-based Eurolaces, believed to be the first company to offer 100% certified machine-made macramé style organic cotton lace trim for apparel or curtains. Now lace has become a theme amongst the

Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first

Patricia Urquiola at the exhibition 'Cosas' at Habitat Valencia. Photo Credit: Petz Scholtus Valencia Design Week has invited us to FEED, the first international design media and bloggers' meeting this week, so together with Core77, Mocoloco,

At this year's Valencia Design Week in Spain, not a huge amount of companies convinced us about their products being truly good for our planet, in fact, we noticed a

Carpeting may be something we give little thought to, but the ubiquitous floor covering is actually a serious environmental problem. Not only are toxic chemicals often used in the making of most carpeting, they are

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

Forget about wood furniture, we are all tied up in knots about rope.

Can new colors refresh an old rug? These Dutch designers think so -- and they prefer red, to emphasize the problem of waste.

These unique, handcrafted rugs are made to emulate the look and feel of moss, grass, snow and sand, for enjoyment at home.

These textile works of art are bursting with soft corals, algae and more.

Our mothers taught us (well, some of us) to send thank-you notes and to bring a gift when staying at someone's house or cottage as a guest. But what to bring? You don't know their taste, or you don't like their taste or you know that they don't need

An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.

Thanks to the internet, housesitters can now travel the world, living in different places for a few days or a few months for free, in exchange for taking care of an absent homeowner's property, pets or errands.

The International Joint Commission has developed a strategy for how U.S. and Canadian governments can address this toxic problem.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

And it's not just lefty TreeHuggers who are outraged; Everybody is in on this war of words

The Polluted Water Popsicles project is meant to shock viewers into realizing how serious water contamination is in Taiwan.

When the oft-predicted water wars start, we're going to want this technology on our side. Let's hope it survives the budget wars.

Dead zones threaten wildlife and fisheries, taint drinking water, and impact communities. Keeping agricultural runoff out of waterways can help tackle this global problem.

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?