Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

It's being killed the name of "convenience."

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

Nations met in Peru this month to discuss solutions to climate change

A skeleton of the bizarre land-walking whale provides answers about how whales first spread around the world.

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

A mixture of leftover citrus rinds and vinegar is an easy, food-safe way to cut ants off at the pass.

Did you know that cheetahs sound a lot like your housecat?

Norwegian architect Tron Meyer cuts a stair out of solid engineered wood.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

Perhaps lofts are not the best solution for tiny homes and apartments.

This multifunctioning stair hides a generous bookcase underneath.

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

Here is an architect who knows how to get people on their feet.

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

Architect Tamir Addadi squeezes a lot into a very small space

It feels much bigger than it actually is, and does not feel weird at all.

Yet another reason to skip the escalator/elevator and hoof it instead.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

Belgian architects build a tower in a barn. But my, it uses a lot of lumber.

It seems that these days you can build just about anything with a CNC machine.

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

And believe it or not, it's environmentally friendly!

Because if you make it beautiful and open, people will use it.

Syte Architects insert a mezzanine and a terrific storage stair in existing loft.

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

The so-called 'transient lunar phenomena' has been stumping scientists for years – but an explanation may be in the works.

A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences serves as a great example of the interconnectedness of nature and how human activity can disrupt life-sustaining systems.

Just float the device in a river or stream and soon enough you'll have enough juice to charge a smartphone, GPS or other device.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?

We used to be able to justify burning a bit of fossil gas, but we cannot anymore.

Drivers of traditional "ICE" cars often underestimate the convenience of going electric.

When the harvest has been poor, rates of adulteration rise.

When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human

We matured our cities around the needs to cars. Now it's time to mature our streets around human, not machine, needs. We are all pedestrians.

A community soccer field in Rio de Janeiro stays well lit at night thanks to energy harvesting tiles laid under the turf.

The same inventor who brought us the body heat-powered flashlight is at it again.

Could this be even more encouraging than a FitBit to get up and walk around?

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.

Soon you'll be able to see hardened lava flows, rainforests and beaches up close without leaving your house.

This endangered Hawaiian monk seal was photographed at the Poipu Beach Park in Kauai.