The huge 'magnificent sundew' was unknown to science until a scientist stumbled across its photo on Facebook.

This will create the world's largest virtual graveyard.

This new drink makes all your coffee and wine meme dreams come true.

As homelessness woes mount in the city, one big-hearted solution is squashed.

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

Adding volunteer work or a spiritual journey to your travel calendar can improve your mental health and add meaning to your trip.

Mild-mannered European travel guru Rick Steves never fails to surprise.

As a partnership with a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless families goes to show, Amazon's takeover of downtown Seattle isn't without altruism.

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

Despite being dumped at 12 years old, Billy Goat the dog wouldn't end his days at the shelter.

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

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'.

The fang blenny's 'heroin-like' venom could inspire new painkillers for humans. (In return, maybe we could not destroy its habitat?)

Bakersfield firefighters pull an unresponsive pup from a fire and use a specialized animal oxygen mask to revive him.

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

Human trials are set to begin on the treatment, which cured 100 percent of mice during animal trials.

As the U.S. struggles with an opioid epidemic, efforts like National Prescription Take Back Day are more valuable than ever.

The medicinal soil called "healing soil" has been found to contain powerful antibiotics that kill superbugs.

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

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

Residents of Harriman, TN share their experiences during and since the billion gallon coal ash spill.

Coal country Sen. Robert Byrd is crowing about $4 billion he steered towards the false hype that is "clean coal" in the Senate version of the economic stimulus

Former Colorado senator criticizes industry's lack of engagement in the climate legislation debate.

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

Here are 14 of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

New York City's Feral Cat Initiative pairs feral cats that need a range with humans who want a defense against rodents.

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

USGBC founder David Gottfried is selling his Oakland bungalow which, at the time of its completion, was the highest scoring LEED-certified home in the country.

When describing March's featured 'Evergreen home,' resisting alliteration is futile: A magnificent, modern modular home in Madison Valley that's currently on th

In response to the rapidly expanding green home building market, the USGBC teams up with Home Depot to launch a database of LEED-qualifying products ranging fro

Bryan Cranston — the actor behind "Breaking Bad," television's favorite chemistry teacher-turned-meth manufacturer — appears at Dwell on Design to discuss

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

If it meets the goal, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will be the largest net-zero energy use museum in the nation.

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

In the South Bronx, a 124-unit housing development with a rooftop farm combines low-income housing with an emphasis on healthy living and fresh food.

This California hotel that our food blogger stayed goes beyond LEED certification in its sustainability initiatives.

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

Holst Architecture's Bud Clark Commons project joins an eclectic assortment of notable green buildings on the 2014 AIA COTE annual top 10 list.

As Make It Right inches toward the finish line in New Orleans, the housing nonprofit unveils 5 designs that address overcrowding at Fort Peck Reservation.

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

Researchers studying fossilized bivalves discovered evidence of a one-two punch of cataclysmic climate change.

Unexplained natural phenomena, which is regularly observed in the aftermath of quakes, occurred during last week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

Touching a giant hogweed can cause burns and even blindness.

Researchers have managed to pinpoint the time you're most likely to meet a spider.

Polio could be wiped out by 2018, but Gates says it will require investment and hard work.

Officially called the "3D fast bus," the bus will literally straddle the road and carry passengers over cars and under overpasses.

Car sharing service Zipcar will be adding Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids to its fleet.

If a celebrity endorsement gets kids using a phone app that prevents on-the-road texting, emailing and phone use, who am I to complain? But, for the record, Jus

Uber and Lyft are both offering discounted ridesharing services. Today in San Francisco; tomorrow the world.