Want to wish upon a shooting star? November is one month when you can definitely do that.

Mike Wendland shares a website's tips for extreme jack-o-lantern carving.

Artist Dave Rittinger's shirts are beautifully leafy to wear and easily compostable at end of use -- and scratchily impractical to wear.

Join 350.org and thousands of local activists to create one of 15 gigantic aerial art pieces that'll be visible from space!

TckTckTck's mosaic:EARTH combines 'deep zoom' technology with social action to encourage people around the world to join in the growing sustainability movement.

This talented illustrator used recycled materials to draw attention to what is thrown away.

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.

Performers take to the streets of Edinburgh in one of the largest art festivals in the world, Festival Fringe.

To stimulate the appetite, try a glass of homemade vin de citron or vin d'orange.

In his book, "Endurance," astronaut Scott Kelly lays bare the highs and lows of living through NASA's longest single spaceflight.

A new, all-girl 'Lord of the Flies' movie is in the works, making this the right time to ditch some of the gendered assumptions we have about kids.

Animal tracking is time-consuming and difficult, but a new book "Where the Animals Go" by Cheshire and Umbert shows how technology is helping.

For dog-lit author Flora Kennedy, dogs can be the harshest — and sweetest — critics.

Animal emotions can be surprisingly similar to ours, primatologist Frans de Waal explains in a new book, especially in our fellow mammals.

Fewer manufacturers are using high fructose corn syrup in their products, but they aren’t making them less sweet.

This weekend, read about how high fructose corn syrup might be to blame for the bees disappearing along with a few other disturbing news items.

By 2032, everything will on the Danish island of Bornholm will be recycled, repaired or reused.

Researchers found that three out of four everyday plastic items contain toxins.

A new study tracks more than 200 narcissists from the age of 18 to 41.

In 8 years, the Empowerment Plan nonprofit has distributed 35,000 coats to the homeless and hired 80 people.

We're eating leftovers, shopping less, and saving more because of the pandemic.

Seawalls fail in Holland killing 50,000, a nuclear reactor in Ontario suffers a partial meltdown, and Keiko the orca whale dies.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Yemen, Greenpeace faces prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department and scientists declares China’s baiji, or Yangtze River dol

Roald Amundsen arrives at the South Pole, widespread bleaching of coral is reported, and IUCN identifies species most likely to be affected by climate change.

The tanker Argo Merchant runs aground off Nantucket Island, the last operating reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear station is decommissioned and the U.S. Justice D

The Safe Drinking Water Act is signed, U.N. delegates plan to address climate change in 2009, and scientists express concerns over methane release from melting

Typhoon Cobra sinks battleships in the Pacific Ocean, the first version of the U.S. Clean Air Act is signed, and manufacturers agree to phase out the chemical d

"Silkwood" and "Avatar" are released in movie theaters, and Julia 'Butterfly' Hill climbs down from her redwood.

The supertanker Sea Star collided with the tanker Horta Barbosa, and Arctic permafrost may be gone by 2100.

Occidental Chemical settles the Love Canal suit, oceans are getting noisier, and Rajendra Pachauri is accused of financial conflicts of interest.

A coelacanth is caught in South Africa, the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act takes effect, and male smallmouth bass are laying eggs.

Chico Mendes is murdered, coal ash floods local waterways in Tennessee, and polar bears remain a threatened species.

Cyclone Tracy nearly wipes Darwin, Australia off the map, and the Obama administrations reverses the so-called 'No More Wilderness' decision.

John Muir dies, Apollo 8 snaps a picture of an earthrise, and the polluted Boston Harbor becomes a political weapon against Michael Dukakis.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Gansu in north central China, 16 campers die in a landslide, and the Pope denounces the 'abuse of energy' in his Christmas addre

The HMS Beagle makes sail for the Galapagos Islands, and an earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggers a tsunami.

An estimated 8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes near Erzincan, the Sea Gem collapses, and Dian Fossey is found murdered.

The Sicilian city of Messina is partially destroyed by an earthquake and a 40-foot tsunami, England gets its first National Park, and Nixon signs the Endangered

This day in history, December 29: Birth of environmental law, yacht race ends in disaster, monarch butterflies at risk.

Kangaroos receive protection, canaries are fired and Bangladesh is told sea levels are nothing to fear.

Clean air is legalized, DDT is banned, Pennsylvania dumps its ash in Haiti and India finishes a dam.

Cucamelons look like baby watermelons and taste similar to cucumbers. Are they worth growing?

New poll finds 3 in 5 adults say they'd eat ugly produce. (Isn't it time for the other 2 to get over it?)

Trade embargoes have kept Cuba's cars stuck in the '60s, complete with pitch-black diesel and nasty hydrocarbons.

With big sales numbers, the manufacturers are rolling out a record number of new models at the 2016 New York Auto Show.

There is no such thing as a "male brain" or a "female brain," new research finds.

These supplements may just change the way you feel while you're working out and not much else.

Some wart removers are highly flammable, and consumers should not use them around any source of heat.

Azodicarbonamide is a chemical that's used in foam rubber products, but in the U.S., it can also be found in breads.

The Environmental Working Group’s food database turns up nearly 500 supermarket foods that contain azodicarbonamide.