Blu Homes tackles the suburbs with Balance Metro, a new take on a 3-bedroom design that's geared for infill lots.

A pair of preservation-minded architects are giving away a historic 1926 bungalow sold as a mail order kit home by Sears with one big catch ...

Blue Homes' view-ready Balance prefab finds a most appropriate home on the ancestral stomping grounds of Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin.

Assembled on site in just 2 days with the aid of screwdrivers, this boxy plywood beauty is designed to last at least 150 years.

Vipp, the venerable purveyor of high-end trash bins, gets into the prefab vacation home business.

Start planning your Thanksgiving wine selections by trying this sustainable rosé this weekend.

More than half of Thanksgiving guests will be taking dessert for the holiday. Whether it’s pumpkin pie or not, we’ve got you covered.

Warre’s Otima Tawny 10 Year Port will warm you up on a chilly evening.

Give your kids another non-alcoholic cocktail option besides a Shirley Temple this holiday season.

It's colder up here and the harvest is earlier, but that's not the only reason Canadian Thanksgiving is different than American Thanksgiving.

Skip the stores and head outdoors to a nearby state park.

Get ahead of the holidays by making and freezing unbaked and baked pies, crusts and filling before the rush.

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, online retailer Zappo's will cover cat and dog adoption fees at more than 100 participating shelters.

Head into the holiday season with a series of daily questions that help all of us think about what we're thankful for.

A Chicago restaurant is serving crystal-clear pumpkin pie. Do you think it's fun or freaky?

Dorcas Reilly created the first green bean casserole recipe as an employee of Campbells in 1955.

Scientists have uncovered the mystery of beak evolution.

It's called dendrochronology, the study of data culled from the growth patterns of trees. And it can tell us a lot.

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.

Pools of water on Earth's moon might have teemed with simple organisms.

These volcanic seamounts are rich with life and are estimated to be at least 30 million years old, formed when Australia and Antarctica broke apart.

Located under the Hiawatha Glacier, the impact crater is one of the largest on Earth.

Elasmotherium sibiricum, the so-called 'Siberian unicorn,' is not as closely related to modern rhinos as once thought.

Researchers say the collision of a planetary body with Earth, some 4.4 billion years ago, seeded the elements of life and also led to the creation of our moon.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of an extinct spider family that contain reflective material in the eyes that gave them superior night vision.

8 strange and surprising facts about the T. rex, king of the dinosaurs.

Carbon dioxide levels are now at 390.9 parts per million, well above what scientists consider the tipping point for the effects of climate change.

The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record high in 2011, the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported Tuesday,

Global greenhouse-gas emissions already have passed the point where the worst effects of global warming could be averted, and they are still rising, according t

Toyota has donated 4,500 free trees for this March's giveaway for New York City residents.

After scrutinizing thousands of peer-reviewed climate studies, the largest analysis of its kind reveals a 'gaping chasm' between science and public perception.

Reducing the flow of the greenhouse gases that spur global warming could prevent up to 3 million premature deaths annually.

Seafloor-dwelling bacteria may prevent methane from reaching the atmosphere by eating it up.

A greenhouse gas that is thought to have a potent impact on global warming was detected in trace amounts in the atmosphere.

Researchers have created a laser powerful enough to detect minute concentrations of gases in the atmosphere or in your mouth.

This surprising discovery won't be enough to stop climate change, but it will help, researchers say.

The climate-changing greenhouse effect exists and has been directly measured in the United States, a new study reports.

The latest World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin paints a grim picture for our environment.

Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland has contributed nearly half an inch to the rise in sea levels in the past 20 years, according to an assessment of polar i

A new study explores the implications of a Greenland that's actually green.

Scientist captures stunning sunrise during a research mission to study polar ice in the Arctic circle.

It's unlikely that coffee or tea is growing in your garden, so after you finish that cup, put the grounds to work with these clever ideas.

By foraging in your backyard, you can turn a crop of cheerful but maligned dandelions into a tasty, traditional French soup.

Bulldog rides zipline to Costa Rican treehouse home

These individuals and organizations support a variety of green causes with generously large donations.

Get healthier by focusing on vegetable-based dishes Monday through Friday and eating meat only on the weekends.

The wooded area around the UK town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire has fallen pray to some amazing guerrilla art.

Several German cities are planning to fight air pollution by eliminating fares on public transport.

Over 60,000 members of the People’s Liberation Army will help increase the total acreage of forested land in China from 21 to 23 percent.

The whole point of getting out into the natural world is to see, smell and hear the sounds of nature.