The Yannell House project is turning a home built in the 1890s into a Passive House complete with modern style and amenities.
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Engineers at Purdue University have developed a paint so white that it actually cools surfaces.
The competition offers a €15,000 prize pool, with an €8,000 award for the first place winner.
MCXA designed Casa Mague around existing trees.
Tucked into the trees where the rainforest meets the sea, the Sirena House is a Costa Rican retreat that combines separate pavilions to cause less impact on the local surroundings.
Vietnamese architecture firm SILAA has recently completed the Hachi Lily House, a nature-inspired retreat tucked into a pomelo tree-filled village near the city of Hue.
By 2025, only zero-emissions delivery vehicles will be allowed in urban areas.
Millions of Americans live near Superfund sites. Now, research shows living near these toxic waste sites could reduce life expectancy from 2 months to 1 year.
Whether picking up trash or advocating for national policies, spend Earth Day making a difference.
Terraced into a hillside, the new hotel rooms have been placed beneath an old, existing barn that the architects also renovated to house the hotel’s reception, lounge and breakfast...
After 33 years of working in an old drafty building in Oxfordshire, international nonprofit CABI has upgraded to a new low-energy home that combines beautiful design with employee...
New Zealand has introduced a new law that will require all financial institutions to report the impacts of climate change on their businesses.
David Valentine, a marine scientist at the University of California, has discovered barrels of DDT buried in the ocean just 10 miles off the coast of Southern California.
BobaWare is the result of a months-long brainstorm by classmates determined to reduce the waste caused by the production and consumption of boba and bubble tea.
Located in the Italian city of Turin, this residential building from the '60s has undergone a sustainable renovation with energy-efficient upgrades.
Efficiency Lab for Architecture unveils Community Information Center for an Avenues: The World School campus in San Jose.
Ten years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant, Japan has announced plans to release contaminated water from the plant into the ocean.
Marine life is migrating from the equator to the tropics, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
How can people live in harmony with global warming and rising water levels? In Amsterdam, a group of forward-thinking people decided to go with the flow.
Cascina Merlata Lot R7/2 is a social housing complex that will function as a “city within the city” where residents can walk or ride their bicycles to everything they need for thei...
When Czech architecture firm NEW HOW Architects was asked to design a holiday home in the Ore Mountains, it decided to craft a nature-inspired home that would go against the trend...
The French government is planning to end all short flights for routes that could be traveled in 2.5 hours or less by train in order to reduce carbon emissions.
The 2021 numbers are up 16% for a total of 752 rhinos, according to results released by Nepal’s government this week.
Fashionable materials like sequins don’t have to come at a cost to the environment.
What will the world be like once pollinating insects, like the honeybee, are gone?