A travel writer captures the beauty of Iceland's wilderness, but will these natural wonders exists for much longer?

For backpackers wanting something other than solar power.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Oil and gas companies have until 2023 to make 'Paris compatible' plans, or face divestment.

It's part of a much bigger energy transition, and sounds a lot like wishful thinking.

Petrochemicals are becoming increasingly important to the oil industry as cars go electric.

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human

These photos reveal the horror of our disposable, consumerist culture and how it's ruining the most beautiful places on Earth.

Researchers have developed a chip that can run off the low voltage deep within the inner ear.

Sure, you can buy one or you could put your DIY skills to the test and make one with materials you have on hand.

A piece of classic playground equipment gets a clean tech makeover.

This quick project makes a useful emergency flashlight while recycling your leftover cardboard.

It goes from bland plastic to a thing of beauty.

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.

The estimated 80% of Kenyans that are not on a grid rely solely on kerosene to light their homes. But a pay-as-you-go home solar system promises to deliver clean, affordable lighting to rural areas.

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.

Thousands of abandoned flipflops turn up on African shores--Ocean Sole recycles them into something good.

No more plastic bags means a return to old-fashioned ways of packaging and carrying goods -- not necessarily a bad thing!

It was shot from "sea to summit" in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the most dynamic landscapes on Earth.

On Monday, a molasses pipeline (yes, that's a thing!) leaked 1,400 tons -- 233,000 gallons -- of molasses into Hawaii's Honolulu Harbor and it has turned into a killer mess with no quick solution.

Last week, 233,000 gallons of molasses spilled into Hawaii's Honolulu Harbor killing thousands of fish, eels, crabs and other aquatic life. And the damage continues to worsen.

On the first of this month, Hawaii became the first state in the U.S. to put a plastic bag ban into effect.

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

It's the first plant plant of its kind in the states that generates electricity from the temperature differences in the ocean.

Move over, indoor birthing tub. This woman wants to deliver in the Pacific Ocean with dolphins as midwives.

This is candy in its purest form -- certified organic ingredients, zero artificial colors and flavors, no preservatives or GMOs.

Solar City and Tesla take the Kinks out of solar power with plenty of PowerPacks

Simple, no frills cabin living at its best, right by the ocean.

On Monday (Sunday locally), Japan switched off the last of its operating nuclear reactors and became 100% nuclear-free.

The technology turns the problem of nuclear waste into a source of safe nuclear energy.

This is, in fact, one of the things that e-bikes are really good at. Another dumb move.

Researchers found that listening to the song was as good as midazolam in relieving anxiety before regional anaesthesia.

and the last job on earth.

A review of posts about aging baby boomers on the Mother Nature Network.

These coolest of sea creatures know what they're doing.

This young startup uses cellular agriculture to grow fish out of water -- delicious, nutritious, and cruelty-free.

The gruesome deaths raise serious questions about the practices of fishing trawlers.

In his erudite analysis of the global warming issue, Don Blankenship of Massey Coal expressed his opinion about the future of polar bears:

The debate over the true ecological sustainability of biofuels, the effects on global food prices, and their oft-heard claims of carbon-neutrality has been played out on TreeHugger in great detail. Adding a new

Matt recently wrote Eat Like It's 1975 to Save the Planet: New Report Links Obesity, Energy Consumption & Climate Change, which said We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognize it as a

George Monbiot told us that flying is dying; London artist Richard DeDomenici tells us that a return transatlantic flight is equivalent in CO2 and pollution output to driving a car 30 miles a day for a year. So the artist/humorist has

It is the battle of the M&Ms; vs the L&Ls; the Munk debate in Toronto about the statement "Climate change is mankind's defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response" with Bjorn Lomberg and Nigel Lawson duking it out

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.

It would be hard to find a cooler looking vacation home than one of these cabins...

These spikes might be intermittent. But they are getting bigger and more frequent.

Fortunately, that's not the only change in their building regulations.

Even with falling subsidies, solar still makes sense.