Some say that news articles from questionable sites shared on social media swayed the election, so these students took the challenge on.

25-year-old wave runner Lindsey Russell undertook the 20-mile challenge to raise money for charity.

Hanan al-Hroub honored with $1 million prize for assisting children exposed to violence.

Generosity may depend on a person's humility, says new study.

Katie's Krops is helping kids fight hunger one garden at a time.

Do Good Bus offers a fun way to help others and make friends by connecting volunteers with community causes and each other.

After debuting in Nottingham, England, the big-hearted concept catering to 'rough sleepers' is coming to America.

Housing charity New Story teams with 3-D printing startup ICON to fabricate 100 affordable and innovative abodes in El Salvador.

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and "Fortnite," is using the popularity of his virtual worlds to make a big impact in his home state of North Carolina.

A leopard cub left paralyzed by a car is pulling off a 'miraculous' recovery, thanks to the efforts of Wildlife SOS in Maharashtra, India.

Video: Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for The Rolling Stones and cofounder of MNN, sits down with singer-songwriter Will Dailey to chat about Farm Aid and eating go

Video: Will Dailey talks about the importance of Farm-Aid, his music career, and how social media is helping him release his new album 'Torrent'.

A small clinical trial suggests that suramin can reverse some autism symptoms with one dose, based on the theory of cell danger response.

Cancer patients given psilocybin experienced reduced depression and existential distress, even at the end of life.

That chickenpox you had as a kid left a virus behind that can cause shingles, but there's a new vaccine to help prevent it.

UC Davis vets and engineers designed a mask and cast exclusively for Loca, a Staffordshire bull terrier severely injured by another dog.

James Harrison's plasma is used to make treatments for Rhesus disease. He has made 1,173 donations over more than 60 years, but now he has to retire.

Hailey Dawson has a 3-D printed hand and team spirit for days.

The secret to chicken soup's medicinal properties have been revealed by dietician Sandy Allonen.

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

Airbnb is offering free housing for cancer patients and the people who care for them.

Mercury, bloodletting, corpses, radioactive water and even heroin are just some of the treatments doctors used to prescribe patients.

To fight climate change and deforestation, Ethiopia is turning to trees in a big way.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The town of Ipswich has been haunted by a nursery rhyme playing over a loudspeaker for more than a year.

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

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

Mosaic dog portraiture (courtesy of artist William Wegman and his Weimaraners) comes to 23rd Street in Manhattan.

Even in Paris, a city with a lot of love for its dogs, public green space has traditionally been off-limits.

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

Located on the Mississippi Flyway, Chicago is one of the deadliest American cities for migrating birds. But the Windy City is trying to change that statistic.

A concept unveiled at a UN roundtable outlines a fully autonomous floating city.

The District of Columbia had the most LEED-certified square footage per capita in 2011.

Harmony House for Cats’ new shelter isn’t just doing something good for Chicago’s felines — it’s also doing something good for the planet. The no-kill

The new World Trade Center buildings will include a bevy of sustainable features that maximize energy efficiency, reduce waste and minimize the environmental im

Organization will provide a one-year membership to the U.S. Green Building Council.

In observation of one of the original New Urbanist-style planned communities' 75th anniversary, Norris, Tenn. gets a self-sufficient prefab demo home.

Calgary will be getting yet another show-stopping skyscraper, this one a LEED Platinum-exceeding mixed-use development designed by Bjarke Ingels Group.

Paul Williams' landmark 28th Street YMCA in South L.A. emerges from a LEED Gold restoration project, historically significant identity still intact.

Study measuring traces of psychotropic drugs in the air of eight major Italian cities has alarming results.

Following in the footsteps of Fibonacci and the Mandelbrot Set, a computer program creates beautiful structures of chaos.

Regardless of where you live, there are birds to admire. Here are some tips to begin watching, including 5 useful apps to try.

Researchers say the beautiful new flame, inspired by fire tornadoes, may provide an eco-friendly way to clean up oil spills.

How the Sahara Desert both contributes to and checks the formation of big hurricanes.