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.

From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats.

Need help paying attention? Cue up the cute baby animals.

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

Did you know that cheetahs sound a lot like your housecat?

Norwegian architect Tron Meyer cuts a stair out of solid engineered wood.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

It does a lot more than just get you from floor to floor, in this interesting Korean courtyard house.

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

Architect Tamir Addadi squeezes a lot into a very small space

It feels much bigger than it actually is, and does not feel weird at all.

And when you get to the top of this, you deserve a treat.

Sweden shows how to build comfortable apartments for families, and stairs that people want to use.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

There's more than one way to go up in a small space, and this is one smart alternative.

Because if you make it beautiful and open, people will use it.

When the splendid full moon rises this weekend, she’ll look a bit bigger and brighter than usual.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

Nicknamed 'Farout' by the team that discovered it, the celestial object is some 11,160,000,000 miles away.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The so-called 'transient lunar phenomena' has been stumping scientists for years – but an explanation may be in the works.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

The latest figures from the EIA show renewable energy sources overtaking nuclear power in the US, through the first nine months of 2011.

Fresh criticism from Georgian environmentalists adds to the diplomatic tensions created by Turkey's dam-building spree.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences serves as a great example of the interconnectedness of nature and how human activity can disrupt life-sustaining systems.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

A man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.

A travel writer captures the beauty of Iceland's wilderness, but will these natural wonders exists for much longer?

For backpackers wanting something other than solar power.

A mix of wind, solar and hydro power could replace fossil fuels in every country in the world.

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

Oil and gas companies have until 2023 to make 'Paris compatible' plans, or face divestment.

It's part of a much bigger energy transition, and sounds a lot like wishful thinking.

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

Sure, we'll be using oil for a while. But where, exactly, is demand growth going to come from?

It's searching for a place to live because its home has been destroyed by our addiction to palm oil.

The timeline needs some work. But this is a start...

Drivers of traditional "ICE" cars often underestimate the convenience of going electric.

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

With the cost of cement electric power poles and