The 20-year-old wunderkind's impossible dream of cleaning up ocean plastic is becoming a reality.
The “Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience” concept truck aims to demonstrate a wide range of cutting-edge technologies and designs.
The Sustainability in Prisons Project transforms prisoners’ lives while enriching the planet.
Hoping to better protect loggerheads, scientists get creative in finding a way to track the years that baby turtles spend in the ocean.
Meet the leaders of the maker movement, the bright entrepreneurs paving the way for the age of homespun inventions.
Collaboration is the key as Walmart works with some of the world's largest corporations to address global sustainability challenges.
This year's Pritzker Prize winner, Shigeru Ban, brings sustainable, innovative architecture to disaster zones in the form of resilient paper-based structures.
As the largest domestic hunger relief organization, Feeding America manages 200 food banks that distribute food to 60,000 agencies.
For 25 years, EDF has partnered with leading companies to prove that good environmental strategy is good business strategy.
Have you secured the health of nature so we continue to have quality of life?
BSR focuses on a company’s national business operations and global supply chain from both environmental and social perspectives.
At NuVu, students solve complex problems by focusing on imagination and constructive feedback.
Who knew we have teenagers to thank for warm ears, frozen treats and easy adding?
The deforestation situation in Indonesia is not entirely bleak, thanks to the efforts of the Katingan Project.
High-tech water filters are wonderful. But what if you could go DIY, using just a piece of wood?
Walmart's recent partnership with Plug Power is helping the company meet its three major sustainability goals.
By working together, we can address food production and recycling, as well as other pressing issues in the product supply chain
With Earth Day now behind us, it’s time to take another look at the steps we are taking to be a more sustainable company.
The brewery in New York state uses local energy, grows its own ingredients, composts – and even more.
The folk hero planted many an apple tree, but not for the reasons you might think.
For decades, Proenneke lived in a handmade cabin at Alaska's Twin Lakes; his writings and films have left a legacy.
How to help provide people on every continent with food that is safe, affordable, and sustainable for people and planet.
Will one conservation photographer's images be enough to save an important protected area from development?
We all know there's too much plastic making its way into the environment; here's an innovative solution to a seemingly intractable problem.
A new, award-winning public arts project makes good use out of building materials salvaged from Detroit's sizable supply of destroyed/derelict homes.
To help eliminate the perilous process of collecting potable water in Ethiopian villages, Italian architects design a water vapor-collecting tower.
We don’t think that people who want to eat organic should have to pay more for their food.
Acoustic engineer Trevor Cox is on a mission to identify the most wondrous sounds on Earth.
More and more charities say they have been helped by these 'pint-sized philanthropists' who are choosing to give rather than receive.
Each summer, wildlife officials gather to decide which southern refuges, national forests and military bases have enough woodpeckers to donate birds.
A massive bald eagle is filmed in slow motion taking off from a street in Melrose, near Boston.
Scientists led by Frank E. Rheindt discovered new five new bird species and five more subspecies on three Indonesian islands.
Some snowy owls have left the tundra to winter in Detroit where they have less competition for food.
BIrds and bats don't seem to rely on their gut bacteria for the same things we do.
Video shows a majestic murmuration of starlings flying across a beautiful Irish sky.
New York City passes bird-friendly building legislation to reduce collision risks for birds.
Grab your binoculars and help scientists study bird populations in the 2019 edition of the world's longest running citizen-science survey.
The bald eagles of the Decorah and Decorah North nests in Iowa are the stars of two webcams that let us follow along with their daily drama.
The only endemic duck remaining on the Hawaiian islands is back from the brink of genetic extinction.
A great horned owl is rescued from the ashes of the Maria Fire in California.
California condors hatch at Zion and Grand Canyon national parks, pushing their numbers beyond 500.
The male white bellbird attracts a mate by singing louder than a jackhammer.
Some male birds keep their mates interested using fancy displays of affection.
Two-thirds of bird species in North America are at risk due to global warming, says Audubon, which offers new report and tools to help.
When birds migrate at night, there are fewer predators but that doesn't mean it's safe.
Study finds U.S. and Canada have lost 29% of birds in past 50 years.
At Fort Stewart, the Army and the Fish and Wildlife Service are saving red-cockaded woodpeckers — and military training.
Research suggests white owls have a key psychological advantage when hunting by moonlight.
You might be able to fool birds and bunnies with fake owls and scarecrows, but not for long.
A new study from a team of ornithologists shows how urban living affects the health of American crows.