The medicinal soil called "healing soil" has been found to contain powerful antibiotics that kill superbugs.

The rotavirus vaccine may also have the unexpected advantage of reducing rates of Type 1 diabetes.

If you have trouble performing these tests, your life could be cut short.

Looking at calcium and vitamin D supplements, researchers found no difference in the health outcomes for people who took supplements and those who didn't.

Michigan state parks are teaming up with Bob Ross Inc. to plant lots of 'happy little trees.'

These storied specimens have been shortlisted for Britain's Tree of the Year contest.

Coal country Sen. Robert Byrd is crowing about $4 billion he steered towards the false hype that is "clean coal" in the Senate version of the economic stimulus

NASA loses a CO2 monitoring satellite, plans for new coal plants are being shelved, and the price of CO2 credits drops out on the European market.

The brothers behind 'The Big Lebowski' turn their filmmaking talents to the boondoggle that is "clean coal".

Recession? What recession? Step right up as the coal industry is loading up on lobbyists.

Margaret Palmer, professor of biology at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, believes there's a better way to mine for coal than blowin

MNN's Karl Burkart closed his Chase Bank account to protest their financial support of mountaintop removal mining. What can you do to help?

The Pennsylvania Republican is a solid pick for social conservatives, but what are his views when it comes to environmental policy?

Here are the winners and highly commended images from the 2019 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

A study in Philadelphia finds that transforming vacant lots into green spaces has a beneficial impact on mood and wellbeing, particularly in low-income areas.

In an effort to combat pollution, China is building 'forest cities' and people will be moving into the first one in about 2 years.

Complaints of sidewalk excrement have become so frequent that the city has established a team dedicated to clearing away number twos.

Despite an uptick in public spending, 30% of city residents live more than a 10-minute walk from the nearest park, according to the 2018 City Park Facts report.

Plucking litter from canals while sightseeing is one of the more singular ways to spend a couple hours in the Dutch city.

How do you squeeze a fancy new 407-acre state park into Brooklyn? Look no further than two former landfills on Jamaica Bay.

Perfect for blustery apartment balconies, the student-designed O-Wind Turbine is a national winner of the James Dyson Award.

Austria's capital ranks high in everything from walkability to affordability.

Migration forecasts developed by researchers at Cornell University help cities and building owners determine the best time to flip the switch.

Critics of the Via Verde project in Mexico City argue that making a busy beltway more aesthetically pleasing only encourages motorists to keep driving.

After every attempt to catch an otter fails, officials are forced to move the fish out of a Vancouver pond.

A new report from the Health Effects Institute says are breathing air that's considered unsafe by the World Health Organization.

A new retrospective study finds that 1980s-era cleanup of Boston Harbor was well worth it from a return on investment standpoint.

New research shows that urban green space largely benefits the wealthy and educated, not the underserved communities that need it most.

The views along Camden's trash-strewn transportation corridors are getting a $1 million boost from Bloomberg's Public Art Challenge.

As their habitats give way to sprawling human developments, more and more animals are being forced into cities and suburbs.

The 'Vessel' is massive collection of stairs located in New York City's newest development — Hudson Yards.

Dubbed 'the smartest park ever built,' the Public Square and Gardens at Hudson Yards is now open for visitors.

Find out what the LEED Green Building Rating System has in common with Shakespeare.

In collaboration with the Make It Right foundation and William McDonough, the green prefab powerhouse debuts a LEED Platinum home starting at $179,000.

The Salmon Cove home was built with the environment in mind.

The office is the highest scoring LEED-NC version 2009 project in the Northern Hemisphere.

As LEED for Homes surpasses a significant milestone, the New York Times singles out one area where there's a near-absence of USGBC-approved residences: Westches

The company's New York headquarters is now equipped with energy-saving LED lighting.

Message of the week from the Eco-Driven with Toyota & Friends conference: Everyone can make greener choices. Attending this event has made me realize I can make

After the nation's largest deep energy retrofit, the Castle Square Apartments in Boston's South End achieves LEED Platinum status.

Speaking at a sustainability and design conference in Atlanta, LEED pioneer Rob Watson explains that 'there are good buildings, and there are bad buildings.'

This California hotel that our food blogger stayed goes beyond LEED certification in its sustainability initiatives.

As Make It Right inches toward the finish line in New Orleans, the housing nonprofit unveils 5 designs that address overcrowding at Fort Peck Reservation.

This isn't your grandfather's vegetation-topped, solar-powered, vegan pulled pork sandwich-selling football stadium.

The palatial Beaux-Arts beauty completed in 1915 is named the oldest LEED Platinum building.

This 60-second video is like watching everyone's lives flash before your eyes.

The Earth's globally-perceptible seismic 'hum' is now being used to peer into its depths, shedding new light on the planet's inner layers.

Filmmaker Mark Kitchell talks to MNN about the need to understand the birth and life of the green movement in the U.S.

Global survival game places you in a biodiverse world that rises or falls based on how you protect or abuse its resources.

Researchers say the giant tsunami occured in the Cape Verde Islands 73,000 years ago.