Environment

Non-profit news organizations develop new ways to tell a story and play watchdog, while tech gurus now share the bylines. Is the future of news already here?

7 | April 8, 2013 3:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

A new military sensor has been hooked up with a drone to detect those in the desert trying to enter the United States illegally.

4 | April 5, 2013 5:01am | By Charlie Osborne

BUENOS AIRES -- The local city government wants to reclaim the city center for pedestrians and bicyclists. But can a formula that's been used in Europe and Asia work in this chaotic South American...

2 | April 5, 2013 3:00am | By Ian Mount

How many Americans approve of the Keystone XL pipeline project, and does this relate to their political views?

3 | April 4, 2013 6:51am | By Charlie Osborne

The Boston-based architect will use his new reality television show to showcase some of North America's most provocative public architecture.

2 | April 4, 2013 3:00am | By Sun Joo Kim

A new windmill design has no moving parts. Here's how it works.

30 | April 2, 2013 1:28pm | By Tyler Falk

South Africans have fought corruption for generations, but a new cohort of anti-corruption activists are going online. Corruption Watch looks to empower citizens to fight local graft.

1 | April 2, 2013 3:00am | By Dave Mayers

A review of Barefoot Walking: Free Your Feet to Minimize Impact, Maximize Efficiency, and Discover the Pleasure of Getting in Touch with the Earth, by Michael Sandler and Jessica Lee

2 | March 29, 2013 3:00am | By Jenna Marotta

Hacker attacks on banks and media companies have received considerable attention in recent months. But there's another industry that is targeted far more frequently.

4 | March 27, 2013 8:47am | By Kirsten Korosec

Woods Hole will incorporate innovations from the Deepsea Challenger into existing vehicles and future exploration platforms. The main goal "is to get the technology out there."

March 26, 2013 1:58pm | By Janet Fang

A Tokyo company plans to burn nuclear "waste" in a thorium molten salt reactor for a meltdown-proof return to nuclear power in the country that has all but shut it down.

5 | March 26, 2013 3:58am | By Mark Halper

Crowdfunding is providing innovative new urban design projects with the capital they need to get started. But can citizens really dictate future city landscapes?

3 | March 26, 2013 3:00am | By Kevin Gray

Just when it looked like the biofuels industry was starting to make some progress, one of its own has withdrawn its IPO due to difficult market conditions.

8 | March 25, 2013 3:24pm | By Kirsten Korosec

DELHI -- In a city choking in plastic, shopkeepers and shoppers are flouting a new ban on plastic bags and transparent wrappers.

12 | March 25, 2013 12:00am | By Betwa Sharma

Apple is working to make a cleaner cloud.

1 | March 22, 2013 10:47am | By Tyler Falk

Can "real-time" marketing really work on social media networks?

March 22, 2013 9:22am | By Charlie Osborne

As we mark World Water Day, it's time to get smarter about water usage.

Sponsored | March 22, 2013 8:05am | By Peter Williams

The five winners, which includes the founder of the world wide web, will share a $1.5 million prize pot.

March 21, 2013 9:36am | By Janet Fang

If it's any consolation, the country's infrastructure got a D the last time.

16 | March 21, 2013 4:53am | By Channtal Fleischfresser

Germany may be walking away from it and the U.S. is dithering but emerging countries are going for nuclear. China, too. Two years after Fukushima, has the renaissance returned?

6 | March 19, 2013 5:43am | By Mark Halper