Thanksgiving feasts and Christmas treats will be here soon, but being proactive can help you win the battle of the bulge.

Don't want to shop on Black Friday but not sure what else to do? Here are some ideas.

Project Chimps creates special meals for rescued chimps on Thanksgiving, and you can see how much they enjoyed it in this video.

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.

Researchers trace back the origin of all flowering plants to a single ancestor using a sophisticated data crunch.

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.

Learn about the natural world past and present at these outstanding museums

The 100-million-year-old sandstone slab of 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from the Cretaceous period is one of the rarest ever discovered.

Covered in a code no one can understand, the Shigir Idol is the oldest wooden structure in the world.

HIV might never have become a global pandemic if it wasn't for the ecology of what is now known as Kinshasa, and what was then a 1920s colonial hub.

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

A whole new kingdom will need to be created to classify Hemimastix kukwesjijk, the organisms found in a random dirt sample.

In A.D. 536, a volcanic eruption sent a thick haze into the air that blocked the sun over Europe, the Middle East and some of Asia for 18 months.

This supposed moon rock is actually an Earth rock. It was likely jettisoned from our planet ages ago, eventually crashing into the moon.

Researchers are calling the wild lands of 12 million years ago the 'Texas Serengeti.'

Scientists say Zealandia meets all the requirements to qualify as a continent, even though 94% of it is underwater.

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

Trying to stay cool while obeying his own stringent vehicle idling restrictions, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg enlists security detail to install a full

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,

Put down that hamburger, pick up a cricket burger, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Living near high-traffic roads accounts for 14% of all asthma cases, researchers find.

This much CO2 hasn't filled the planet's atmosphere since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago — long before modern humans existed.

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

Just in time for a new U.S. report on climate change, a stunning animation shows how much we've already altered Earth's air.

For several countries, the switch from coal to renewable energy is paying off in our attempt to reduce global carbon emissions — but we still have work to do.

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

The new white Coca-Cola cans are part of a fundraising campaign to protect the Arctic.

Polar bears have ruled the Arctic for 100,000 years, but now they're struggling to keep up as the region undergoes a dramatic transformation.

As the Arctic grows warmer, its sea-ice cover is shrinking at an unprecedented pace. Here's a graphical look at how quickly it's disappearing.

Thanks to the combined technology of satellites and weather stations scattered around the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers can now keep tabs on the region's shi

Long-term thinning of Arctic sea ice combined with an intense, windy storm over the Arctic in early August contributed to a new record low for sea-ice extent, s

It may be time to retire the groundhog and start tracking Arctic sea ice for a better prediction of late-winter weather.

A new visualization from NASA offers a unique view of life on Earth.

Shipping containers can be transformed into a variety of innovative homes and hotels.

Bulldog rides zipline to Costa Rican treehouse home

Could we be witnessing Korean pop's plunge into the cultural criticism arena?

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

Organize your home and office with help from Gail Blanke's book about clearing the clutter.

Apparently touring other people's chicken coops is what all the cool kids are doing these days.

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.

Decades after the first of the iconic orange phones began washing ashore, a French community finally has answers.

500 square miles of Appalachian forest is gone forever due to illegal mountaintop mining, and the EPA doesn't seem to mind.

Documentary on coal mining’s effect on Appalachian communities premieres in West Virginia this Saturday.

Mountaintop removal mining has destroyed hundreds of mountain peaks and at least 1,200 miles of streams in the Appalachians, and remains a hotly contested issue

Parts of the Appalachian Mountains are so buffered against climatic shifts they may provide a 'stronghold' against global warming, researchers report.

Are you a homeowner interested in top-of-the-line green technology but not the uber-modern aesthetic that often accompanies it?

Eco-Sense, described as North America's first code-approved, seismically engineered load-bearing insulated cob residence, is one of the first projects to gain s

Michael Pollan explains how public health problems in the past made food so cheap it started costing people their health.