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Heres a look at the companies that provided the lighting, plants, irrigation system, and teak in New York Citys High Line park.

By Melissa Gaskill of Nature magazine Heart-breaking pictures of seabirds covered in black crude oil, arresting as they are, can miss the hidden story of an oil spill's impact on wildlife. Exposure to even tiny concentrations of the chemicals present in oil can also cause harmful biological effects that usually go unnoticed, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

Inc.com traces a brief history of U.S.

Homes shaped like a cocoon, a mound and a Y now stand in a park adjacent to the National Mall, looking for a ray of sunshine. Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the loan to solar-module manufacturer Solyndra , the latest " solar decathlon " competition begins today, September 23, in Washington, D.C.--leading to a cohort of 20 innovative solar homes standing in West Potomac Park. [More]

A team led by Dr.

Hydrogen is a clean fuel, but making it usually takes fossil fuels, until now: A new discovery allows hungry bacteria to eat dirty water to make the fuel. Hydrogen has potential as a clean-burning fuel. It leaves behind only water as it burns

This year is slated to be one of the most charred on record, as wildfires have burned more than 7.5 million U.S. acres to date.

Ground Zero officially becomes the National September 11th Memorial today.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal-fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate. Tom Wigley, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reports that if natural gas were substituted for coal in energy production, climate change trends would not slow down and may, in fact, accelerate. His findings are due to be published in the journal Climatic Change Letters

Natural gas might burn much cleaner than coal, but getting it has its problems: leaky pipes. And those leaks spray gasses that are worse for the climate than carbon. Natural gas is a hot energy commodity right now, with new drilling techniques, low prices, a big domestic supply in the U.S., and the support of people like T

From Nature magazine. Hair-like filaments called pili enable some bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater

It's hard to know what products mean when they say they are "environmentally friendly" or "fully compostable," but there are rules about what companies can and can't claim about their products.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing with a single quantum bit (qubit)—the first published error rate small enough to meet theoretical requirements for building viable quantum computers.

Complete Genomics is taking a look at the genomes of 1,000 children to get a better picture of how to understand and treat pediatric cancer. Ever since we sequenced the first human genome, projects that involve delving into genes have exploded--scientists even recently just sequenced marijuana's genome . Now, a new project aims to look at some slightly younger genes

A caesium fountain clock that keeps the United Kingdom's atomic time is now the most accurate long-term timekeeper in the world, according to a new evaluation of the clock that will be published in the October 2011 issue of the international scientific journal Metrologia by a team of physicists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom and Penn State University in the United States. An early posting of the paper on the journal's online site will occur on 26 August 2011.