The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey may survive because of work by communities, NGOs and the Myanmar and Chinese governments.

WIth the death of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhinoceros, the species is one step closer to complete extinction.

This rebellious, edgy-looking turtle is now unfortunately facing extinction, and conservationists are fighting to save it.

A conference on sustainable construction in the Can of Ham is in denial about upfront carbon emissions

It's not as 'free' as you think. Someone always pays.

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway

It is evidently big news in Toronto that condos are being sold without ovens, but it shouldn't surprise anyone.

On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert-dwellers' existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters,

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

This one of a kind structure combines architecture, technology, algae farming and real-time data, and will dynamically respond to environmental factors like weather and movements of people.

Surprisingly strong and made with seaweed and a bit of paper, this collection of modern furniture and lighting makes use of an abundant resource.

EnerGaia, a Thai startup, is using the rooftop of a Bangkok hotel to harvest spirulina. Is this the new edible rockstar of urban farming?

Bloom hoovers up harmful algae overgrowth from waterways and turns it into a flexible foam that can replace some petroleum-based products.

Volunteers are trialling an urban fish farm allotment in Bristol, England. Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you

You won't find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most "Suntelligent" big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American

With science pointing to all the pitfalls of sugar on human health and longevity, I have ever more reason to curb desserts and hidden sugars. Sadly, "reason" lacks in my vocabulary during the holidays. On

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to

There is something contradictory about building a Green Porsche Headquarters at an Aeropolis, but whatever.

St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.

A new study finds those with heart disease had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine.

New York Times article asks a lot of questions, and doesn't deliver a lot of answers.

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.

Find out which brands are the best and worst players in the canned food industry right now.

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate

The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have

After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan, an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to

From a painter's satirical take on 1950s images of a bucolic world to

Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive without water, developing their own cooling systems, and

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.

What is CO2 fertilization effect and how is it changing our planet?

"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?

When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.

Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.

Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California.

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

They also build a "tree house" for themselves. It's almost an indoor community.

Although the term “Passive House” might seem to refer to single family homes, these concepts can be applied to all kinds of buildings.

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.

It comes with a tiny bar, housed in the distillery's old elevator.

Fed up with the disposable culture we all live in, two women from Portland, Oregon, founded a low-waste company to help the entire city cut back on plastic.

This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at

Simmer like a crock pot and bake like an oven, using the clean energy of sunlight.

Economists with the IMF crunched the numbers to quantify the economic value of a whale's life; what they found is astonishing.