Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

The flood of toxic red sludge, which burst forth from a containment pond in Ajka, Hungary and covered several villages earlier in the week, reached a branch of the River Danube today. According to the head of the

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the

How about using the light from already existing street lamps to spark off the festive season? Here are some off-the-grid parasite lamps so to speak, that look good by day!

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.

Personal care is a big subject, but we'll focus on caring for our general appearance: Cleansing and cosmetics, hair care, skin care, makeup, hair removal and, of course, that time of the month most women deal

Made from virgin materials that require resource-intensive manufacturing processes, reusable water bottles aren't the perfect solution that you may think.

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.

Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.

But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.

Recycling isn't enough when demand for aluminum is soaring. We have to use less of the stuff and eliminate single-use packaging.

Built using aluminum, stainless steel and wood, this modular prefab is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled.

Is this really the future we want?

Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.

Declawing cats often leads to long-term pain and unwanted behaviors.

A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.

Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt 'extinction plan.'

The animals get distracted and distressed. Oh, and you could get your head bitten off.

In order to prevent future pandemics, we need to change our relationship with wildlife

Google and Save the Elephants teamed up to bring Street View to the Kenyan wildlife reserve to show its residents and spread the need for conservation.

Jellywatch.org has tapped into the power of citizen scientists to collect data on jellyfish populations and you can help.

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.

Spoiler: your city will be much warmer year round.

Now you can handwrite letters on your computer.

Using satellite and Google maps images, the program can count and identify the city's trees.

The findings could help us deal with environmental changes happening now and in the future.

A shark's fin is like its fingerprint, with each animal having its own unique patterns and scars.

Aircraft will have to fly new routes to avoid major bumps.

Researchers are developing computer simulations that can improve agricultural success.

The tech giant just agreed to purchase all of the energy from GE's Tullahennel wind farm.

Researchers combine social media and artificial intelligence to better predict damage from global sea level changes

A suitable celebration of Pi Day.

Our photo of the day comes from "The Wild Place Project."

Our photo of the day comes from Jackson County, Oregon.

Our photo of the day is a study in details.

Our photo of the day comes from Calgary, Canada.

Our photo of the day comes from Los Banos, California.

Aiming to spark conversations about marine conservation, these beautiful works reimagine the oceans in their pristine state.

Made in Australia out of a solar-powered workshop, this gorgeous little home incorporates a great layout and clever features.

Add heritage preservation, passive house design and a butterfly roof and it pushes a lot of buttons around here.

Plenty of clever spatial overlaps and multifunctional pieces of transformer furniture in this renovation of a 376-square-foot apartment in Melbourne.

This tiny house has a distinctive peaked roof and a warm, modern interior.

Constructed as an "apartment-house" hybrid, this prototypical 753-square-foot house makes the most of a small lot.

After a few big players entered the ring, the environment was spared some 1.5 billion plastic shopping bags in under 100 days.

Made carefully by hand, this food artisan's edible works of jelly art are bursting with colorful flora and fauna.

This home has been redesigned to feel much more spacious, and connected to its surroundings.

Our photo of the day provides a lesson in the origins of seashells.