Ensuring your plants get the right amount of water is a challenging task, and lugging around a watering can is hard work. Here are some hands-off alternatives.

Nearly any pinecone from a coniferous tree will do, as long as the ones you collect are not rotten. Large pinecones will take up more space with fewer pinecones. Spruce, fir, true pines, larch, and ...

Indorama Ventures, Nigerian Breweries, and Genesis Power & Energy Solutions have agreed to set up a large-scale recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) facility in Lagos, Nigeria. The planned site ...

Most products that we use every day either have microplastics in them or remain on the Earth for centuries. Here are some ...

Advocacy group Greenpeace favors more reuse options from consumer products companies like Unilever as plastics recyclers struggle to achieve profitability.

Learn about Carbios' story, as the French biotech focused on recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET), faces pressure after ...

Couldn’t we use bacteria to break down plastic in the environment so it isn’t such an ecosystem hazard? -- Patricia S., via email ...

Growing Our Future, a community program based in Bemidji that supplies free seasonal gardening kits to local youth, is now offering its spring 2026 round of gardening kits.

What's better than having a beautiful plant? Having one you can easily propagate. Use cuttings from these plants to grow more for your garden or gift friends.

Travel doesn't have to come at the expense of the planet. This guide compiles practical advice from sustainability experts and seasoned travelers who have ...

The Ames City Council awarded a 5-year contract for its new residential curbside recycling program to Aspen Waste Systems of Iowa.

But if the drain in your shower ever gets clogged, I’m the guy to call. Unlike Moe, Larry and Curly, I somehow solved that plumbing problem without turning our humble abode into SeaWorld. My aquatic ...