If a bird has zygodactyl feet, that means two toes point forward and two point back. This makes life easier for woodpeckers, owls, parrots and ospreys.

While stink bugs ravage our food crops, samurai wasps — another sneaky insect from Japan — are helping us keep them in check.

Octopuses are weird, fascinating and for the most part, entirely unknown. Yet these behaviors are reminders we shouldn't put anything past them.

Scientists take a deeper look at how chameleons change color, and learn some tricks that could benefit humans.

It may sound like a good idea for the environment, but refilling a plastic water bottle may not be a good idea.

Glenn Beck went on 'The View' and was eviscerated by Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters.

In the middle of a takedown of Van Jones, the White House's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Glenn Beck veered strangely off-topic.

The rise and fall of Rev. Billy James Hargis, along with the popularity of Glenn Beck, makes our media columnist long for the days of the Fairness Doctrine.

Fox News rodeo clown Glenn Beck thinks "The Story of Stuff" is just downright un-American.

Fox News' resident rightwing rodeo clown pulls out a heaping dose of hypocrisy when he accuses world leaders gathered in Copenhagen of 'fear mongering'.

TV personality and radio host dedicates an entire segment of her MSNBC show to examining the nest of lies Glenn Beck used in recent statements about weather and

The newest advertiser on the Glenn Beck program is using fear of an economic and societal collapse to sell heirlooms seeds.

The award winning director of 'Avatar' didn't pull his punches when he was asked about what he thought of Fox News rightwing rodeo clown Glenn Beck.

Conservative lightning rod has history of anti-environmental comments.

Is God mad at us for recycling or behaving badly? Some of the right wing's sharpest minds think so.

As he prepares to leave Fox News, it's a good time to remember some of the more interesting things Beck has said about the environment.

Searchers attempt to find the flyers, who crashed in Greenland in 1942, before they disappear into the sea.

A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glaciers, with a NASA plane mission providing the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of

Off the coast of northwest Greenland, an enormous iceberg is beginning to go to pieces.

Examining layers of offshore sediment can provide insight into the link between glaciers and climate change.

Scientists have gained insight into the cause of the global sea level rise with the discovery that warm ocean water is primarily melting the ice shelves.

A massive iceberg, larger than the city of Chicago, broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.

What does a splintering iceberg sound like underwater? Imagine the cracks and pops of an ice cube melting in a glass of lemonade multiplied on a colossal scale.

Scientists tracking 278-square-mile block of ice hope to learn from it as it moves away from its parent glacier.

Four architecture students hope to build a seafaring crescent that would irrigate crops with icebergs and house 800 people.

Icebergs that tumble into the ocean are the source of unusual "earthquakes" recorded at Alaskan glaciers.

Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you'll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes.

The vast ice sheet covering Greenland could melt more quickly in the future than existing models predict.

Researchers in Greenland are studying how warming glaciers relate to sea level rise around the world. They had a front-row seat to the Helheim glacier calving.

NASA reveals the truth about 3.7-billion-year-old find.

These aerial images highlight the devastating effect global warming has on the arctic.

Morieka Johnson says she gets more bang for her buck from high-quality food. (Expensive shoes are another matter.)

While Morieka Johnson usually loves a good bargain, she knows that when it comes to local, sustainably raised beef, you get what you pay for.

Father's Day gifts. This Father's Day give him the gift of organic or locally brewed beer.

Use beer to steam mussels and other ideas to try when you're making a meal for dad.

For Father's Day, we celebrate animals that buck the deadbeat dad idea.

This light, spicy, beer is perfect for saying “Cheers” to dad on Father’s Day and enjoying throughout the whole summer.

Solar Foods is set to unveil a fully sustainable, carbon-neutral food that can be produced anywhere.

Wearable air conditioners may help wean us off our emissions-happy ways.

Researchers may have finally figured out what kind of drugs Vikings were on as they headed into battle in a blood-thirsty state known as berserkergan.

General Motors sold more than 1,100 Chevy Volts in October.

The 2012 Toyota Prius V is capable of 44mpg in the city.

As California's new Advanced Clean Cars rules push electric vehicles one step closer to the mass market, could the smart grid be the sequel to 'California emiss

Ford's upcoming plug-in hybrid can deliver 550 miles of driving pleasure on a single tank of gas.

Austin's 'Chevy Volt Village' makes a handy political target, but in fact clean energy — and especially wind power — has been very, very good for Texas' ec

The California New Car Dealers Association reports that the Toyota Prius was the best-selling car in California in 2012.

These 9 edible flowers will boost your cold beverage game.

They may seem like a modern oddity, but arachnid decorations on Christmas trees are actually inspired by an old Ukrainian legend.

A toast to the guy who turned supermarket grape juice into wine and won the Internet.

From multiple meteor showers to a Hunter's Moon, here's what to spy in the heavens above this month.