Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources?

Latest IPCC report calls for urgent action in the way land is used.

Who needs flying cars when you can have flying trains?

Cat lover? New plant parent? Fortune seeker? Traveler? We've got the perfect plant for all.

Photographed in various natural settings, these life-sized, child-like works of art invoke a sense of wonder and delight.

Using various vintage fabrics, many with a story behind them, this artist portrays ordinary people and historical figures with an artful eye.

We have standing room in landbuses, so why not airbuses?

Author Craig Murray says, "The Earth cannot afford to indulge the pollution caused by massive air tourism."

It really isn't necessary but it sure is a lot of fun and you learn a lot. I am conflicted.

Do we have the political will to do what has to be done? Simon Kuper doesn't think so. I do.

A secret deal lets the homebuilders dominate the committees that write the building codes for housing.

I was disappointed to see that Subaru, beloved of TreeHugger types, is on the wrong side of this issue.

They say it reduces CO2 emissions by 80 percent. Does it really?

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."

The consumer products giant says it will "fundamentally rethink its approach to packaging."

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

The Canadian city is the latest to rethink disposal culture and insist on something better.

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.

Loop's reusable packaging service is coming to brick-and-mortar stores in U.S., Canada, and France.

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.

While the immense amount of rain and devastating floods that hit Colorado nearly two weeks ago were already tragic , they have also exposed a concern regarding the lax environmental regulations that allow the oil and gas industry to drill in flood zones.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that's what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.

If a hurricane is headed your way, you surely have a lot on your mind. Knowing the energy infrastructure risks in your area may be one more thing to throw in there.

The new energy drink that is taking Japan by storm!

New study finds Aliso Canyon disaster’s impact equivalent to annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.

It's over. As of midnight on May 31st 2018, data on the hazards and risks of every chemical sold in Europe is available to ensure safety

If you're going to go for it, you may as well REALLY go for it.

All 2,800 stores will go paper or reusable bag only... eventually.

Is American consumerism innate, or manufactured?

This won't solve the climate crisis, but it could help direct air capture of CO2 to scale up.

The hotel company plans to recycle old soap into 1 million new bars for Global Handwashing Day.

'Instead of putting the money back into our business, we’re responding by putting $10 million back into the planet. Our home planet needs it more than we do.'

Even though it took 6 months to find an alternative, Coop refused to stock microwave popcorn because of the health risks to customers.

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.

It's the Danish word for happiness, which these days seems in short supply.

It is reflective and glows in the dark, perfect for "enhanced safety in traffic" -- and the dance floor.

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have developed a zebra-smelling cattle collar which will be tested on Masai herds subject to the biting tsetse fly,

Once you've seen what goes on inside a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) it's tough to accept the trade-off of horrific animal suffering in order to have cheap food.

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.

Search on the terms "hay pollutant epa" and you'll see hundreds of recent links with statements inferring that USEPA has 'declared hay to be a pollutant.' The source most often cited

Livestock to Markets seeks to provide a sustainable solution to overgrazing in the Northern Rangelands of Kenya, creating local community capacity for rangelands conservation..

A mini video series just released by the National Young Farmers Coalition illustrates the challenges and joys of starting one's own dairy farm.

Astronomers are stunned and stumped by the brightest light seen in 24 years of observations of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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

Another good reason to pile density onto subway lines: Almost free heat and cooling.

There is a real footprint to all those baby pictures and Netflix binges.