Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

Ortho's decision to nix neonicotinoids is an important one.

Mushroom extracts have been shown to reduce the presence of bee-killing viruses.

Raymond Wang, 17, won prestigious $75,000 award for engineering a system to make cabin air safer.

Robert Redford shares why he has joined the fight against the coal mine.

Check out this wonderfully strange music about the Bagger 288, one of the largest mining excavators in the world.

Supreme Court decides not to hear the case about a plan to build 'the world's largest garbage dump' near the iconic national park.

A newly unveiled firm's asteroid-mining plans may be ambitious, but they're not any crazier than some extractive operations already under way here on Earth, com

A new mine could provide 1,500 jobs, but protestors say the environmental cost is too high.

Deep Space Industries Inc. announced that it plans to harvest metals and water from asteroids within a decade.

Eucalyptus trees can hold grains of gold, potentially helping reveal buried treasure.

The Caterpillar 797 is a 50-foot-tall dump truck widely used in the mining industry. Watch what happens when it faces off against a stationary Land Cruiser.

Complimentary or not, Thomas Paino welcomes the attention being lavished on his super-efficient Long Island City rowhouse.

To chill or not to chill? For these items often found in the refrigerator, the answer ranges from 'not always' to a resounding 'never!'

We can't just build better; we have to change the way we live.

The color looks radioactive, but activists promise it is nontoxic and harmless to marine life.

Populations of the mosquito-like bug have exploded around India's Taj Mahal because of unchecked pollution.

With fresh water supplies contaminated by Hurricane Irma, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees are bucking the rules to keep Key deer in Florida alive.

159 coral reefs were examined in the Asian-Pacific region, and 89 percent of those reefs were contaminated with plastics and disease.

It took a surprising amount of engineering magic to build a coffee cup suitable for those in zero gravity.

NASA's space shuttle Discovery is set to land in Washington, D.C. this April, where the now retired fleet leader — the world's most flown spacecraft — will

Cries of "I see it!" rang out through the crowd as a speck on the horizon got bigger and bigger, resolving into the odd shape of two attached aircraft approachi

Visitors can get up close and personal with two space shuttles, the launch pad and much more.

As the space shuttle Endeavor is poised to come to Los Angeles, crews will remove about 400 trees to make room for its passage.

The space shuttle Endeavour takes to the skies above California for its last-ever flight today, Sept. 21, giving observers from Sacramento to Los Angeles a one

This week marks a somber time for NASA, with the anniversaries of three U.S. spaceflight disasters.

The last of NASA's retired space planes is officially on display for the public to enjoy.

Since the end of its space shuttle program, NASA is relying more and more on commercial space travel.

A new feature added to Project Sunroof, a free solar mapping tool from Google, makes keeping up with Joneses even easier.

At the 85th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in Miami Beach, leaders pledge to make the switch to 100% renewable energy by 2035.

British tech startup Seawater Greenhouse makes the impossible feat of growing crops in arid regions possible with the help of plenty of sunshine and saltwater.

Although a recent renewable energy bill stalled, the hurricane-ravaged territory isn't giving up on its fossil fuel-free aspirations.

Twelve of the world's leading chocolate producers, with some help from Prince Charles, intend to tackle deforestation.

Is responsible seafood the answer to our health and environmental crises? Author Paul Greenberg explores in a new PBS documentary, "The Fish on My Plate."

If you're not ready to go cold turkey with beef, we have some bean recipes to get you started in replacing just a meal or two.

In the 2 years since the U.K. imposed a 5-pence fee, about a third of shoppers still use plastic bags. What price would change your habits?

Plastic bags are bad, for sure. But a new fee for produce bags is angering some ... and you're not even allowed to bring your reusables!

The creators of the original Flow Hive are back with a new model.

Was the Gulf oil spill actually good for the region's economy? Maybe in the short-term—but the Gulf needs a long-term restoration economy, says Conservancy sc

President Obama’s oil spill commission has released its final report on the disaster, and those who put the analysis together certainly had a few interesting

The Gulf oil spill helps BP nab the 2010 Accidental Earth Experiment Award — for creating 'unique data scientists can use to study the Earth.'

Food news and items of interest from around the Web for your weekend reading.

Actor says Stephen Baldwin's claims that he was duped out of shares in his oil separation company are untrue.

A new report provides a possible scapegoat for BP in last year’s oil spill. Investigators say the blame for the disaster does not lie with BP but instead with

On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tells TODAY that there's still work to be

Actor says his oil separation technology coupled with special boats can effectively stop an oil slick from reaching shore.

Using a sample from the very riser pipe that the plume escaped from, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemist Christopher Reddy and his team ascertained tha

Five rousing books that sound a rallying cry to think about and work toward environmental solutions in fresh, new ways.

What's your interpretation of this bizarre painting found on the news sharing site Reddit?

Nearly two years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster gushed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, tar balls from the spill still turn up on Alaba