In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.

A typical pacemaker could be powered by solar cells as small as 3.6 square centimeters, which could be implanted under the skin, thereby avoiding the need for periodic battery replacements.

We spend billions of dollars on over-the-counter cough medicine, but numerous studies find it’s not effective. Try these tips instead.

Researchers have found that an Alzheimer's drug triggers dentine regrowth, eliminating need for fillings.

After 28 years of collecting lids, tabs, and connectors, Tilda Shalof was ready to turn them into a work of art.

Researchers are poring over an important medieval medical text with 360 recipes, many of which might have successfully fought infection long before modern science.

The new dragon's breath chili is killer hot, but is intended to help, not hurt, when used in medical treatments.

A new study on chicken embryos may help researchers understand how humans developed their sensitive daylight vision.

With one in 3 cases of dementia preventable, a sweeping new report identifies modifiable factors in early, mid- and late life that make a difference

From helping with dementia to prehypertension and chronic pain, these lifestyle changes could help you hop off the medication merry-go-round.

As an alternative to expensive antibiotics, people have taken to taking amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, penicillin and other drugs meant for fish. Here’s why it’s a bad idea.

Pinpointing the sources of myths that threaten the health of children could help get the truth out to where it is needed

Family doctors are acknowledging that there's only so much medicine can do, and sometimes a walk in the park is just what a person needs.

A new study shows that children bear 88 percent of the burden of diseases linked to climate change.

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.

In a disturbing new trend, researchers find that heart attacks are on the rise for young women.

Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.

After decades of increasingly complicated insomnia fixes, this one little thing changed everything.

Although heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the US, many don't recognize the symptoms of a heart attack.

Getting enough nutrients from food reduces risk of death, not the same could be said for nutrients in pill form. And in fact, some supplements were linked to increased risk of death.

Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for acne, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema.

The FDA has announced new (and stronger) warning requirements for certain prescription insomnia medications. Here's why.

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.

A visit to a Sri Lankan herb and spice garden reveals a rich history of trade and alternative medicine.

Here's where influenza hits especially hard, and what you can do to help protect yourself from it.

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people.

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and while some great progress has been made, there are still many rivers which are endangered, including one flowing through our nation's capital.

Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it has the standings of a person.

Modifications to the $3.5bn project have been made to address environmental concerns, but it may not deflect criticism.

From its tiny source to the Houses of Parliament, here are glorious photos of the River Thames.

A beautiful video by photographer Pete McBride shows how this epic and ancient river is now the most endangered in the country.

"It was cool to be in the right place at the right time," says Dr. Sciascia.

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.

The River Thames has inspired artists throughout the ages; here's a modern take on it.

This fake fight has a good cause.

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done.

The Nature Conservancy teamed up with two artists to create a habitat-enhancing sculpture made from natural materials.

Lazy New Yorkers who want to stay on the island and sunbathe will get this floating artificial beach on the Hudson River if this scheme gets crowdfunded and approved.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has taken to releasing massive amounts of the Colorado River from dams, here's why.

Data is not just for the internet giants; using remote laser-sensing technology, it can generate lovely maps of a river's long-past history too.

Recycled Mississippi is traveling the length of one of America's iconic rivers, which also happens to be one of the most polluted, and filming a documentary along the way.

Long-living fish can now be tracked for their whole lives with a single tag.

Research reveals that rivers deliver up to 4 million metric tons of plastic debris to the sea every year, with up to 95% coming from just 10 of them.

Our photo of the day pays homage to the first designated Canadian Heritage River.

Rivers are people too, you know.

The levels were so high that scientists are revising up their estimates for global marine microplastic pollution.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.