Has the Costa Rica Foreign Minister really just suggested that the Sea Shepherd founder might voluntarily go to Costa Rica to face trial?

A couple weeks ago, Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old conservationist, was kidnapped by sea turtle poachers in Costa Rica. He was bound, beaten, and shot in the head. His body was found on the beach the next day.

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This little unit has sleeping for four in not much space at all.

Taking pieces of "dead" nature, this artist transmutes them into delightful, living works of glass and gold leaf.

He makes the case that it is better to have magnificent public parks than big private backyards.

Commonly thought to be a byproduct of economic distress, a new report suggest that dollar stores are a cause of it.

Where did the Convenience Industrial Complex start? A 1960 classic tells all.

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

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.

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

Showing other cities around the world how it's done.

This is a truly seismic change, and may mean some big changes in the oil sands and pipeline debates.

I write often about the lessons that one can learn from old buildings, usually discussing ventilation and lighting. It turns out that there are lessons in security and defence as well; Eli Lehrer of Frum Forum notices some

One of the biggest floor-care brands in Britain has unveiled a cardboard vacuum cleaner made from its own packaging, the Vax ev. And it was created by a student.Open and Assemble—Without the Packaging Waste The vacuum is sold in a

A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of

A little salamander that is found in only a

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

A lack of space becomes something more roomy with some simple design strategies.

This new loft adds extra space and an extra bedroom in an urban apartment in Brazil.

A clever redo of a small 376-square-foot apartment in São Paulo that uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces.

Reports that Turkey would reconsider its nuclear plans following a deadly earthquake in the eastern part of the country sounded too good to be true. They were.

Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.

We need a new system to determine which nations ought to be forced to cut emissions, not the 20-year old outdated one we've got now.

It is as counterintuitive as it is true: Around the world, communities who have resided on the land the longest often have the most tenuous rights to that land.

The largest oil spill in the U.S. happened 25 years ago today.

But no, we're not going to compare to that other tower.

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

Using an age-old method to cool the air, this terracotta "cold pot" could be an energy-efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional air conditioners.

The new technology would allow precise control over the transparency of windows and how much light is let in.

This could keep people from overheating in their wearable electronic outfits or simply in the heat of the ever-warming days

One-third of emissions reductions needed for 2 degree target could be achieved with better land management.

Synthetic fertilizer is likely to become significantly more costly for US farmers. This trend will make manure a valuable commodity once again (as it was prior to the 1950s). There are two main reasons for the

From love potion plants and heart-shaped leaves to love goddess blooms, these plants are like a valentine from Mother Nature.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

There are some significant advantages to an affordable kit like this.

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

Forest ecosystems sequester large amounts of carbon in vegetation and soils, off-setting the carbon emissions we produce and mitigating climate change. The boreal forest and its associated wetlands, in particular, provide critical carbon storage ...

Researchers find that dogs can be trained to sniff out the bacteria that causes citrus greening, with 99+ percent accuracy

Allison Arieff asks that and a lot of other questions.

Many parents who work in the tech industry are opting to go screen-free at home.

Turn your anger into action by supporting lion-loving charities that are doing great things for big cats.

Wanting to make a massive life change, this man makes his exit from the corporate world -- with his feline friend and a self-renovated van.