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Until now, rooftop solar has only worked for those with hefty electric bills and sunny roofs.

Searching the Arctic for a long-lost world of woolly mammoths and giant sloths, a traveler discovers a new one disappearing fast

Tribute and terror on skis in Antarctica

You come between a bull moose and his intended. Now what?

Scientists have recently identified some of the ingenious ways that nature maximizes solar harvest

For a prolific typeface designer, Yosemite is a font of inspiration

Whistler Mountain borders British Columbia's Garibaldi Provincial Park and provides access to a glacier-capped, cirque-scooped skiable wilderness

Earth-friendly meals that infants would rather eat than fling

These at-home devices will help you preserve the strength you'll need to make a gear-laden scramble as soon as the snow melts

Hotel Lagunita, Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico

From frogs chirping through the night to whales humming across the oceans, nature is full of fantastic music.

In real life, she wouldn't harm a fly—or any other living thing.

A pair of wooden rackets serves up a sporty side table

Skiing the wild and wildly familiar on Vermont's 300-mile Catamount Trail

Mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia has wiped whole towns from the map.

River Rouge, Michigan, is in sniffing distance of a coal-fired power plant, an oil refinery, a sewage-treatment plant, a steel mill, and other industrial polluters.

The coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station dumps its combustion waste into uncovered "ponds" beside the Moapa Band of Paiutes Reservation