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Early photographers recognized the monumental importance of creatures such as Africa’s large animals but could do little about it other than photograph those that sat still in a zoo. Once film was fast enough, telephoto lenses precise enough, and col

As Tel Aviv celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, it witnessed the outcome of a planning decision made in the 1990s that had two seemingly contradictory goals: to preserve the architectural form and human-scale streetscape of the historic central

The next issue of The Green Parent has just arrived on our doorstep and it is positively bouncing with the joys of spring! Our April/May issue will go out to subscribers over the next few days and then hit the newsstands at the weekend.

57.4 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered and recycled in 2008, but can we reach 60 percent by 2012?

Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals

We need trees for so many reasons ... here's how to keep them around.

In Haiti, International Women's Day is a reminder of what women have done and are still doing to keep hope alive.

The Obama administration has embarked on a high-stakes gamble: devoting billions of dollars to an expansion of nuclear power in the hope of winning Republican votes for a climate bill. But in its eagerness to drum up bipartisan support for one of the hard

Amy Cannon, green chemist and non-profit director, answers our 10 questions, discussing low-energy solar cells, training scientists to weed out toxicity, and what makes benign chemistry such a good business proposition.

 If you honk for hummers—winged, not wheeled—Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air, a recent addition to PBS’s Nature series, doesn’t disappoint. For 60 minutes hummingbirds hold center stage, flitting around the screen like shiny-feathered ballerinas.

Balancing Act Stay well all winter long with recipes that draw on Thai healing traditions BY Su-Mei YuPHOTOGRAPHY Pornchai Mittongtare

Roughly a year behind its original schedule, the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will break ground on March 16 on the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University. When finished in 2012, it will be the second Hadid-designed buil

Environmental change has hit Washington, but not everyone’s with the program.

These are the countries where the most endangered species are at risk.

A golden eagle circles over Tejon Ranch’s steep slopes, soaring in arcs that bring it eye-level with my perch atop a bald peak. Its bronze head glints in the spring sun as it flies over hillsides blazing orange with California poppies and purple with