Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one in Mayflower, Arkansas. A new report finds all were in play on the Pegasus pipeline.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

The company quietly helps rebuild the island's electrical systems.

In our dystopian future we might all be buying power by the watt-hour from a cart in the market.

The online-only financial institution will provide low cost loans for solar, electric cars and even electric-assist bicycles.

With a renewed partnership between the fashion label and resale consigner The RealReal, McCartney is coaxing consumers into a circular economy.

This stair does it all: it's a connector, a partition, a bench, a counter and a concealer of clutter.

Part treasure hunt, part real-life Pokémon Go, the hidden giants (which are made entirely of scrap wood) can be found by treasure map or riddle poems.

The project in Denmark is a good object lesson.

When I entered the Gallery Art & Design in Poblenou, Barcelona, it was the odd smell I noticed first. Very faint, but it reminded me of something far away. Large pieces of art are scattered around the big white gallery

In late May, a cow named Yvonne decided not to be eaten, and broke through an electric fence to escape from the farm in Bavaria where she was being fattened for slaughter. Since then, she has been on the

The divide between environmentalists and stockmen can sometimes be pretty wide, but they may find common ground in a new wireless fence technology for cattle.

The wide use of antibiotics in factory farms to prevent infections and promote growth is a breeding ground for superbugs.

Researchers studying fossil clams in Florida believe they found the souvenirs of an ancient meteorite.

Much of the upper US could be treated to some celestial theatrics.

A NASA scientist shows us the three-fifths of the planet's surface that we don't get to see.

My search for the perfect water bottle is over thanks to the beautiful, drinker-friendly, ocean-loving, coral-planting NAECO Bottle.

The Amazon rainforest doesn't need prayers, it needs protectors.

With only two members of the species left, a successful egg harvest and fertilization could mean all is not lost.

Here's what to know about Lynx rufus, the solitary wildcat that roams North America.

Among other things, the data reveals answers about the size of blue whales, the largest organisms to have ever lived on Earth.

It's time for swift and immediate action to protect marine life from further devastation.

Last week, we revealed the winner for our Participate! contest, Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt Project. This week, we are profiling two more great entries, the Participate! runners-up. Yesterday, we showed you easy to assemble, 100 percent recycled plastic

With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the

Bromberg, then a young lawyer working for an environmental NGO in Tel Aviv, was frustrated that environmental issues were not

In part one of this interview, Gidon discussed FoEME's work in promoting cross-border

Dean Kamen is the kind of inventor we don't imagine exists anymore—a fervent polymath like Thomas Edison. Best known as the creator of the Segway, Kamen is also responsible for major breakthroughs in clean energy, water purification, prosthetics,

With his planes, helicopters, and other fuel-hungry pets, Dean Kamen admits that he takes a lot out of the world. This just means that, in keeping with his immigrant grandfather's advice, he has to put more back in. In the second part of our

Having given Global Water Challenge a Best of Green award earlier this year for their innovative work on the issues of drinking water and sanitation, it goes without saying that TreeHugger is a fan of their work.

These low-impact, solar-powered desalination units could be a potential boon to water-scarce coastal communities, disaster-prone areas, as well as local marine life.

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...

When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.

The iPod of thermostats gets updated with new energy saving features and increased functionality in its mobile apps.

This easy DIY project will save you money and reduce energy consumption by making less work for your air conditioner.

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.

An ice cream cart uses solar panels to power its refrigeration unit.

The new technology would allow precise control over the transparency of windows and how much light is let in.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

The anti-straw movement is definitely having a moment. Let's hope the momentum continues.

When the earthworms are in trouble, we all are.

Sometimes shipping container architecture makes perfect sense.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

Synthetic fertilizer is likely to become significantly more costly for US farmers. This trend will make manure a valuable commodity once again (as it was prior to the 1950s). There are two main reasons for the

It seems like everybody who knows the Cradle-to-Cradle principles thinks they're brilliant, yet adoption of the methodology and design philosophy seems slow. What is holding it back? William McDonough answers.

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco