The road to mandatory labels is still long, with a 5-state trigger before the requirement goes into effect.

The fight to "follow the money" heats up in as Washington prepares to vote on GMO labeling.

After a week of recounts, the proposed law to label genetically modified foods loses by 4 percent of votes.

Canada's environmental regulatory agency has allowed genetically engineered salmon eggs to be commercially produced.

This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a controversial bill that seeks to set a unified standard for the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms.

While banana farmers watch their plantations get ravaged by a fungal disease, scientists think they may have found a solution.

But more than that, the film is a love story about cooking and gardening -- and the importance of regaining control over where our food comes from.

We hear a lot about plastics breaking down at sea, but scientists are discovering that a shocking quantity of plastic enters the ocean already in microscopic form.

Learn about the extent of ocean plastic pollution and what you can do to help.

I investigated a rumor about the northwestern state

Alex Weber, 18, has just published a study that analyzes how these balls enter and degrade in the water.

The Amazing Shrinking car It seems like Toyota has learned quite a bit from building the Toyota iQ (follow link for photos), the "Smallest Four-Passenger Car in the World". But the question really was, if they can fit 4 people in a car that small, how

Photo: Michael Graham Richard Twice As Much as 2009 Hybrid Production According to the Nikkei, Toyota is planning to ramp up hybrid vehicle production pretty significantly this year, with a goal of production 1 million hybrids annually in 2011 (up from

Car makers do well in the public's perception of green companies. Illustration by wallygrom (busy at work) via flickr and Creative Commons. Interbrand has come out with their list of the world's 'best' or top 50 green brands. And as they say in their

We are very civilized here at TreeHugger and rarely criticize other writers when we disagree with their posts, and never fight in the comments. (unlike at Grist where you can see Dave Roberts and Jason Scorse go at it hammer and tongs over mercury in

Over at the Sietch Blog, an environmental site that I respect a lot, a roofer named Leo defends PVC roofing as one of the greenest roofs. He isn't wrong; it comes in white, and white roofs are all the rage, it lasts a long time and is a

It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores

Steven M. Johnson beats a whole lot of TreeHugger posts to the punch.

Steven M. Johnson beat the GrubHub by 25 years.

This gives the "spin cycle" a whole new meaning.

The total estimated population of the Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam was perhaps eight individuals just three years ago. Now WWF reports that there is one less of the beyond critically endangered rhinos in the Cat Tien

Last April, airport authorities became suspicious of a traveler arriving to LAX from Vietnam after noticing bird droppings on his socks and feathers peeking from the cuffs of his pants. A closer inspection of the man,

As far as endangered species go, it's mostly bad news, with the occasional positive story. Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola,

The saola is an extremely rare relative of the ox that is found only in the forests of the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos. Discovered in 1992, scientists know very little about the elusive beast, which is known among locals as a

Cities and towns with good public-transit options offer more convenience for residents and are, of course, more environmentally friendly places to live. Now it

The future is mobile as businesses dematerialize and hit the road

Christopher Mims describes how robots are changing manufacturing and eliminating jobs

The rise of clean energy jobs is outpacing the loss of fossil fuel ones.

In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, one scientist gives her tips on forging your own path.

The Statue of Liberty may be a welcome sight to see for many entering the U.S. from around the world, but according to a recent NYC Health Department study, immigrant children are five times as likely as those born in the U.S. to suffer from lead

As if melting Himalayan glaciers weren't enough to radically (and perhaps catastrophically) reshape water supply in South Asia, a new report from researchers at Purdue University shows that summer monsoons could be

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan. A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber

After Pakistan's extensive hydroelectric power resources dried up in 2008, Australian coal was marketed to satisfy the growing power consumption

A new report chronicles the impact of climate change along Pakistan's shores.

NASA is using decades of space exploration technology to build a new eco-aware base here in California.

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has already been named Britain's greenest city. But that reputation looks set to be cemented as the city begins drilling for geothermal energy in the form of hot

Demand for lithium is growing very rapidly thanks to portable electronics and electric vehicles. What if we could get a lot of lithium cheaply, without building new mines?

With the abundant geothermal potential of the United States, what are the biggest barriers to tapping into that renewable energy source? Leslie Blodgett of Geothermal Energy Weekly answers.

You are visiting a cottage, you have to bring something and you want it to be nice. What to do?

Another effect of weather weirding: Higher tea prices coming? Northeast India tea production expected to drop 60% in 2012 this year.

A mug of herbal tea a day may keep the doctor away!

Time to move over, coffee. Tea is making a comeback for a number of very good reasons.

Craving the perfect cup of tea on a chilly morning? Here are some companies with ethical business practices worth supporting.

People are often surprised to learn that tea bags contain up to 25% plastic, which raises concerns about health and environmental implications. Good news is, there's a better way to make the perfect cuppa.

Promoting the gift economy and community resiliency, this man has been traveling the country for the last decade, offering free cups of tea out of his bus home.

No Japanese minimalism here.

Meet the 'Japan pig,' a newly discovered pygmy seahorse that is as tiny as it is beautiful.

The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of

Could human urine be used on a commercial scale to fertilize the food we eat?

In this case, the HORSE is a 'living' machine, not an animal, and has the potential to reinvent the food cycle.