Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. My 2000 Subaru is full of holes. Like so many other cars in Canada and the northern United ...

After seeing news of the tragic, sudden collapse of a 40-year-old condominium building near Miami, I had all sorts of questions. Early reports have indicated the cause of the collapse may have been ...

As useful as steel is, its main weakness may be its vulnerability to corrosion. Researchers in Korea have now developed a new alloy coating that boosts steel’s resistance to rust, by adding a simple ...