Inspired by her own spine-shattering accident, this sculpture shows the struggle and transformation of these remarkable insects.

The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things.

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

The man who brought us the Rap Guide to Evolution is back to entertain, educate, and inspire us with a thought-provoking album that captures the spirit of conservation.

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.

The unusual concert was held in the depths of the Florida Reef to promote coral reef protection.

Music is a comforting thing, especially for these rescued elephants living in an animal sanctuary.

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

There is something mesmerizing about this clip of a squid worm, also named teuthidodrilus samae by researchers after it was 'discovered' recently in the depths of the Celebes Sea between Indonesian and the Philippines.

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

With research showing the installed cost of solar dropping 11% in just 6 months, it's little wonder that corporations like Wal-Mart are ramping up their plans to go solar aggressively. Walgreens made headline back in 2006 for its commitment to solar,

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm -- ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.

Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate

Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

It harms retailers, drives overconsumption, and contributes to traffic jams and pollution. What's the point?

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves

Get rid of slugs (and snails) without the use of pesticides that harm beneficial creatures and pollute our waterways.

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.

Pesticides make lawns unplayable.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.