It is estimated that around 100 elephants are being killed each day by poachers to meet the growing demand for ivory in Asia.

“Wild Concrete” reveals the unintentional greenery of urban environments through photography.

Toni Desrosiers, founder of Abeego beeswax wraps, wants people to start thinking about the natural life cycle of food.

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

Our photo of the day comes from the waters off Sydney, Australia.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.

Insulation in a tent makes as much sense as it does in a house, if you can get it right.

The Irish beer giant has stopped using fish bladders for filtration of its keg beer; cans and bottles to follow suit by the end of the year.

Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that

If you like a little sugar in your morning (and late morning, and afternoon) coffee, but don't like the calories, there's a good chance you use one of the many artificial sweeteners on the market. But there's plenty of evidence

Now that the Toyota International Teacher Program has ended, I've decided to turn the spotlight on a few of the teachers involved. First came the middle school teachers. Next up, a couple of the high school-teaching

Though I delved into Toyota's reasons for annually executing their singular teaching program in the Galapagos, I amazingly failed to touch on the

Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:

All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety

Photo credit: Wikipedia/Creative Commons 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues

The Galapagos Islands are like no place on earth. The Galapagos Islands have too many

Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the

When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a

Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that

The difference between visiting the islands largely untouched by humans and those once habited by people is

The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths

Lonesome George, the world's last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, has died at age 100 -- marking the final end of a species millennia in the making, and inching that 'loneliest' mantle one notch closer to us.

On a remote island in the Galapagos, hybrid turtles have been found that suggest a long-lost purebred companion for the late Lonesome George may survive.

This discovery could change how we think our planet works

We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the

Is keeping up with TreeHugger too much work? Let us help with our newsletters. We have a daily, edited by me, and a weekly, edited by Warren McLaren. Today I muse about how Amazon is Now Selling More Digital Kindle Books Than Print Books. Have a look

Earlier today, I wrote about a New York Times article that described Chicago's ongoing efforts to prepare for and adapt to a warming climate. I'd like to revisit that article for a second, as it just so

The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have

While the NYT article offers an exaggerated cautionary tale, its alarm-ism can lead many to throw the beautiful practice of yoga asanas (postures) out with the bathwater.

What does it take to get improved environmental coverage in the media?

Did I mention that nobody cares about the environment anymore?

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.

"Cities have been burying garbage for thousands of years"- so lets keep doing it!

The classic daily newspaper box gets updated by a New York artist.

And whatever you do, don't read the comments.

"If knowledge has become a secular religion, public libraries are its parishes, mosques and synagogues."

They are building "five great houses that are comfortable to live in and will have happy occupants."

Inspired by her own spine-shattering accident, this sculpture shows the struggle and transformation of these remarkable insects.

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?

Here's how people work together to build their own homes cooperatively.

It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars.

The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things.

It gives another meaning to 'eating off the floor.'