Palm oil is cheap and comes from a highly efficient oil palm crop that produces generous yields, year-round, with relatively little land. Yet, it can be horribly unsustainable. Demand for the ...

Codes, puzzles and cryptic public art tease us with their intrigue. Here's our list of 10 of the world's most cryptic unsolved mysteries and codes.

Biomimicry refers to a practice that looks to nature and natural systems for inspiration and uses nature-inspired strategies to improve design. Through adaptation and evolution, nature spends ...

The Ferruginous hawk is North America's largest hawk species. Dennis Holcomb Photography / Getty Images One of the biggest, most obvious distinctions between hawks and falcons is size. The average ...

12 Plants That Repel Unwanted Insects (Including Mosquitoes) Bid goodbye to mosquitoes in your garden. From basil to marigolds to nasturtiums, these plants are nature's bug repellents.

How Solar Lighting Works Solar lights use photovoltaic (PV) cells, which absorb the sun’s energy and create an electrical charge that moves through the panel. Wires from the solar cell connect ...

Marcus V. Bellizzi / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 This tree, an example of the species Cariniana legalis named Patriarca da Floresta in Brazil, is estimated to be over 2,000 years old. The ...

It is obviously best to prevent tree trunk wounds in the first place. But this isn't always possible. Wounds from can occur from insect attacks, animals, fire or storm damage. Bacteria and fungi ...

Factoring in everything from land use to pesticides, water consumption, and emissions, here are the environmental impacts of oat milk vs. almond milk.

But in October 2022, hempcrete was added as an appendix to the U.S. residential building code, utilized by 49 out of 50 states, and will be in the 2024 International Residential Code (IRC ...

Despite this trend toward Big Agriculture, Victory Gardeners in the 1940s and plant lovers in the ‘60s and ‘70s chose to grow their own food. Today, Millennials and a growing number of Gen ...

How to Prepare Your Appliances for Recycling Some appliances need special care before you recycle them. For refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners, that might mean hiring a professional to ...