Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them instead.
Environment
A tribute to the beloved environmentalist, human right activist, and executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.
Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research.
Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.
A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Nourish is an education initiative that celebrates food and community. Its food curriculum and lesson plans, short films and discussion guides, and powerful action ideas will help young people and their families, schools, and communities think about the food they eat and what they can do to make healthy choices for themselves and planet Earth.
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
Tending your yard doesn’t have to be noisy, irritating, or fuel-intensive. Here’s how you can unplug.
Bats are mammals, shy creatures of the night, and fascinating to watch. They’re also endangered by loss of habitat, disease, and pesticide poisoning. You can help by providing protection.
Big Oil is a big risk for national security. Can our military—the world's No. 1 oil guzzler—change the politics of climate change?
The challenge: build the greenest houses on earth—and make them affordable.
With 5 million houses in foreclosure, we are rediscovering that living sustainably includes living affordably.
Low-cost and natural ways to care for your critters.
This Earth Day, think like an ecosystem—and you just might save the world.
Running their own utility means sun and wind energy instead of coal.
Going beyond organic, a new generation of farmers is nurturing nature as well as crops.
How people power stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline.
It’s a blessing to risk it all to stop climate change—even if it means jail time.
Bringing renewable energy and jobs to reservations.
Designing the world’s greenest building standards.
Revolutionizing agriculture with crops that grow like a prairie.
Use the Innocence Project’s interactive resources to understand the causes of wrongful convictions and exonerations, and see how your school's cafeteria food measures up to prison food with this tell-it-like-it is infographic.
Big mammals shouldn't be a casualty of modern society. They could make a comeback—if we give them what they need most: room to roam.
YES! asked Jane Goodall to tell us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.
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