The deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands today struck along a subduction zone.

While its name might evoke scenes of Mother Nature at her most destructive, the Tsunami House on Camano Island, Wash. revolves around comfort and resilience.

Pluto looks especially welcoming in a new photo by NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.

Here are five things researchers can learn about Earth by studying the dwarf planet Pluto.

The oldest city in the Netherlands attracts first-time homeowners with flat-pack prefab abodes free of hidden costs or complications.

Check out this video of NYC's first prefab residential building coming to life over a 4-week span in Manhattan's Inwood section.

By keeping things compact, Matt Kirkpatrick and Katherine Bovee were able to splurge and have some fun when designing their boxy, prefab abode.

In Japan, militantly unfussy retailer Muji sells much more than stationery, travel pillows and slippers.

More than half of Thanksgiving guests will be taking dessert for the holiday. Whether it’s pumpkin pie or not, we’ve got you covered.

Warre’s Otima Tawny 10 Year Port will warm you up on a chilly evening.

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

Neanderthals might be extinct, but their genes still live on inside of us.

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

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.

A paper hypothesizes that some of our language skills evolved out of specific cave art features.

Triassic fossils found on lands that were previously part of Bears Ears National Monument could fall under 'multiple-use' management.

The archaeological site is located a mere 900 feet off Manasota Key in Florida.

Turtles use their shells as shields today, but these devices evolved for a completely different reason, paleontologists learn.

The first animal to evolve on Earth was probably a sponge that existed around 640 million years ago.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

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

A startling find in Wyoming radically changes our theories about the distant origins of our taxonomic order.

Researchers say the collision of a planetary body with Earth, some 4.4 billion years ago, seeded the elements of life and also led to the creation of our moon.

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

New research suggests it will take millions of years for extinct species to return to Earth.

A new study finds that earthworms cause soil to release more greenhouse gases.

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

This surprising discovery won't be enough to stop climate change, but it will help, researchers say.

The risk of 'severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts' is quickly rising worldwide, the draft report warns.

Scientists with NASA unveiled the first carbon maps obtained by the spacecraft, named the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2.

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

The idea behind Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam's lovely, loopy play structures was born when children started playing on the designer's crochet sculpture in an art ga

Guy Laramee's work speaks to the 'erosion of cultures' and our over-reliance on analytical knowledge, symbolized by the book.

CANLOVE, a collective of graffiti artists, is on a mission to collect and upcycle as many spray cans as possible into art.

Each of us is a cloud of microscopic particles, chemicals and microorganisms swirling around us that's always there. It's called an exposome, and it's unique.

Over 20 drunken, rowdy coal miners showed up at a party thrown by mountaintop removal critics, and cameras were there to film it all.

Two new video campaigns by Greenpeace are brave and forthright in making their point, but do they go too far?

After studying under Ansel Adams, Rob Decker is creating posters of all the national parks with a nod to the WPA posters of the 1930s and '40s.

MBA students in a CSR course at Boston College were tasked to create a green business idea for Verizon and a recyclable phone project came out on top.

The O'Neill Passive House, America's first passive house retrofit project, requires as much energy to operate as a standard hair dryer.

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

On Hamburg's waterfront, world-class sustainable architecture has emerged not from lofty green goals but from practical questions like this one: How do you buil

Monsanto, swine flu, Lay's claim to be local, Michelle Obama's organic garden, school lunch programs and more. This video has Michael Pollan weighing in on a lo

Michael Pollan discusses the high cost of cheap food with Jon Stewart.

When processed food marketers try to outsmart Michael Pollan, he turns the tables on them.

A report issued earlier this week caused quite a stir in the organic food world. See what some respected organic food advocates are saying about it.

Stephen Colbert cuts through the “locavore flim flam” to find out what is at the heart of Michael Pollan’s latest book.

Video: Join Danielle V as she plans an eco-friendly and socially conscious Super Bowl party.

While the days of excess seem to be over, a party in New York last week showed that it’s always in vogue (and on budget) to be green.

Your Daily Thread — self-described as "L.A.'s hub for all things green, sustainable & local" — has been live for quite a while now, but finally threw its of