As mom and I swam in the saline pool, enjoyed a meal of local, sweet scallops, and blissed out with deep tissue massages, the inn's sustainable touches made everything taste and feel a little more like home.

In the north, a lot of people burn wood all year round, but even a single fire is worse than smoking cigarettes.

A coastal grizzly bear pauses in its fishing efforts to pose for a group of photographers watching nearby.

Have the leaves started to change yet where you are? Autumn is just around the corner, and the annual burst of color is about to begin!

A female northern elephant seal protects her newborn pup as she warns away a young male with amorous intentions for her.

September's most loved images from our Photo of the Day series.

Five tons of ivory was crushed earlier this year in Manila at the wildlife bureau compound, in an effort to change it's image as one of the world's hotspots for illegal ivory trading.

Ryan North points out that unlike most games, this one is lethal

A huge trove of posters from the WPA is full of messages that still resonate. And brush your teeth!

Global Sharing Day is coming up. Share your garden and knowledge to create a healthy, sustainable community.

Patagonia's Worn Wear events, held in collaboration with sharing start up Yerdle, offer a different, more sustainable vision of Black Friday.

Getting people out of cars and rebuilding our main streets is not going to be easy, and cannot be oversimplified.

That's an alternate name for Halloween, but let's not forget the rest of the year.

Most glass buildings are a problem, but just banning them is the wrong solution.

A building that once housed a Jewish girls' school, shut down by the Nazis, is now home to a fashionable restaurant.

Tesla's new boutique shop on Berlin's famous KuDamm beckons, but where is Germany's national strategy for electric cars?

Made out of an old grain silo, this renovated micro-home is bursting with delightful creativity.

Researchers concluded that the spill probably doesn't pose a significant environmental risk, but the ash contained heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury.

Things of Intrinsic Worth is a feature-length documentary which focuses on the ways coal mining is harming the livelihoods of Montana ranchers.

A giant wave of pollution glop in 2008 convinced the EPA to regulate coal dumps more closely. But the Trump administration is changing that.

The award-winning DropBucket is a recycled cardboard trash can that can be reused and/or recycled.

Bogotá was a pioneer of car-free day. Now, it has decided to one-up that and move to having a car-free week.

A 297-acre property in rural northern Colombia will become the first and only reserve for the conservation of the Dahl’s toad-headed turtle.

Our photo of the day is a study in happy yellow.

But regardless of what green initiatives they implement, tourists must be willing to change, too.

As part of an ongoing series about the Maya Ka'an community-based tourism initiative, this was my first official day in the Mayan region, and it was certainly full of adventure.

Snakes, spiders, and bats in a tight space may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but Kantemó, Mexico, is actually an incredible place to visit.

There's an "epidemic" of unused vacation days in the United States. This startup wants participating companies' employees to trade them in for plan contributions, or booking flights and hotel accommodations.

A new study shows that if we want to stop climate change, meat and dairy are off the table -- at least in the quantities we currently consume.

Despite the fact that livestock production contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector, there is an appalling unwillingness to change eating habits in order to make a difference.

According to the research of author David Simon, the externalized cost of our animal food system totals about $414 billion per year, which is carried by all of us.

Is the dream of sustainable agriculture a nightmare for the beef industry?

The report argues why a beef tax would be an effective step toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions and why we should all be paying more for climate-damaging foods.

Actually, this is something every country needs.

We covered this subject before but I got it wrong. Peter Flax of Bicycling Magazine got it right.

If you're not into bar soap, here's an innovative option for liquid hand soap.

For everything from stained sinks and burnt pots to baked-on grime, this simple 3-ingredient formula is eco-friendly, zero-waste, and actually works.

All those cat pictures and viral videos won't harm the Earth.

Mountain gorillas have become the only wild apes whose population numbers are known to be improving.

Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October.

Purr, snuggle, awww, repeat.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

200 tiny homes, a community building, an exercise facility, a restaurant, and other amenities will be built along the Arkansas River in Salida.

In a ghost town in the one of the coldest places in the US, lone resident Billy Barr has spent 4 decades recording snowfall … to the enormous delight of scientists.

We turn on the tap and run some of our favorite stories.

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

The holidays are a time of joy, happiness, families and... waste? Estimates show that almost 25% of waste produced in the US comes from the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. But we can change that, starting now.

Using digital fabrication, moss and clay, this designer's "moss voltaics" would use these hardy plants to transform sunlight into electricity.

The floating tidal stream turbine off the coast of Scotland has proven that it can produce power safely and cheaply year round.