Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on a 3-month Antarctic expedition, supporting an international proposal for the world’s largest protected area.

Australian Antarctic Division captures a vision of curious penguins ready for their close-up.

Wind on the snow dunes of the Ross Ice Shelf causes a near-constant hum that is as beautiful as it is haunting.

In support of Greenpeace's Antarctic campaign, this may be the prettiest video I've ever watched – and the cause couldn't be more important.

Award-winning photographer Sue Flood braved the extremes to bring us this marvelous new book, Emperor: The Perfect Penguin.

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.

Turn your bathroom into a spa with an exfoliating DIY body scrub. Here are 8 homemade scrubs made with ingredients already in your kitchen.

Or, how to get glowing skin with just a few simple ingredients.

These are the ones that also had a green slant to them, making them special to TreeHugger's heart.

Thanks to COVID-19 we are generating a lot more of it, and nobody wants to touch it. Time to try and go zero waste.

A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck.

Perhaps yes, if our food system stays the way it is, but maybe that's what we should be challenging.

Waitrose wants to see how serious shoppers are about bringing their own containers.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

A scientific assessment has confirmed enormous amounts of waste and definite harm to wildlife.

The ancient Ok glacier, a fraction of its former size and unable to move, was declared dead in 2014.

Organic wool comfort wear company Ramblers Way founded by Tom and Kate Chappell, of Tom's of Maine fame has come a long way since their first collection, comprised of natural blonde wool jersey knits

Eating seaweed is healthy, but how is it harvested? For one Maine seaweed harvester, the job is a meditation on life.

Some pretty smart designers, builders and consultants have a pretty good idea for a sensible building standard.

These 'living fossils' have survived mass extinctions over the course of their eons of existence, but it just might be two youngsters that save them from the human threats they face today.

A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses.

American organic farmer Eliot Coleman explains how his innovative winter gardening methods work, allowing growers to harvest veggies year-round.

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

The iconic English office pod can be used for all kinds of things.

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.

Despite needing to pay a hefty tuition bill this fall, Hannah Rousey refused to take money from Poland Spring Bottling Co., a subsidiary of Nestlé.

It's as if Chris Knight left for a weekend camping trip, but didn't come home for a quarter-century.

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.

In the US, Arbor Day is April 27, 2007. When this writer was a child, our grade school class planted trees on Arbor Day, told that when we grew up that "our" trees might well still be there, beholden to our childhood actions. We even had an

Trees are the longest living and largest living organisms on earth. One acre of forest absorbs six tones of carbon dioxide and puts out four tones of oxygen. Trees are good noise barriers, making a city and neighborhood quieter. This is just the tip of

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked

The Triumph Elm is being set up on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in honor of Arbor Day this Friday (and you thought the fun ended with Earth Day!). The tree is part of a project by the Morton Arboretum to enlighten

Acorns are piling up around the U.S., threatening to cover some cities in nuts. Not really, but there have been an "exceptionally large number of acorns" dropped by oak trees around the country this year, Chicago-area experts say. This

Instead of buying some new "green" products for Earth Day, start a legacy for your community by planting trees for Arbor Day.

From oldest to tallest to most sacred and more, we present a brief who's-who of arboreal heros.

Even when accounting for other factors, the right amount of sleep has been shown to have a big impact on heart attack risk.

A new study suggests a sweet spot for daytime snoozes.

The Japanese pursuit of shinrin-yoku uses trees and nature to heal oneself – here's how you can do it even in a park.

Cigarette filters are a scam and are a leading source of plastic pollution worldwide, say experts.

When doctors team up with food banks, it improves health and staves off chronic hunger.

Don't let a passing crisis, serious though it is, distract you from the real fight.

No longer will hunters be able to buy the right to kill this majestic apex predator.

When you watch the video do you see a triumph of nature or the beady eyes of a predator?

Most people think there are around 100 – most people are way off.

From crayfish to parakeets, these species are at risk of disappearing from the planet.

37 species under national protection have been observed in the Ziwuling area, thanks to massive reforestation efforts.

The 'puffin patrol' is saving baby puffins by the handful.

The World Customs Organization and INTERPOL retrieved thousands of endangered animals during a sweep of arrests across 109 countries.