Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. The roly-poly, or pill bug, is a terrestrial crustacean that looks ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. In 2019, Costa Rica was ...

Alicia is a writer, photographer, and social entrepreneur specializing in sustainable travel, wildlife and nature conservation, and environmentally friendly agriculture and eating. She holds an M.S.

Beyond its affordability, this superstar material is easy to work with, drying in just one night and flexible enough to be shaped into almost any form. First, there was foamcrete, then there was ...

Despite slight gains in population, the Amur leopard is still on the brink of extinction. Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman ...

Wolves howl for many of the same reasons that other species use vocalizations: to warn others about predators, to defend their territories, and to find mates. There are a number of factors that can ...

Gazelles are famously fleet-footed members of the antelope family, living primarily in dry, open habitats like deserts and grasslands. They tend to gather in migratory or nomadic herds, remaining ...

ULEV is an acronym for Ultra Low Emission Vehicle. ULEVs release emissions that are 50 percent cleaner than the current average year's models. ULEVs take the LEV, Low Emission Vehicle, standard a step ...

Wolves and humans have a complicated relationship. We often vilify the “Big Bad Wolf” in fiction and real life, but we're also consistently fascinated by these smart, social mammals, and we haven't ...

A solar tree is a structure resembling a tree that generates solar energy using photovoltaic (PV) panels. It employs principles of biomimicry, using a natural system—in this case the form of a tree—to ...

A passive solar-heated home needs no solar panels to heat or cool it. Rather, the energy used to heat and cool a house comes directly from the sun through skylights and windows. Some of that energy is ...