We need to see plastic for what it is: nearly-indestructible, highly polluted and far from disposable.

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?

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.

Companies are in position to shift away from a linear towards a circular product economy that is at once regenerative and restorative.

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

World Water Day may be one day out of the year, but taking the time to reflect can help us make long-lasting impacts that we can carry forward.

'These fires are a situation that humanity cannot tolerate.' – Carlos Durigan, WCS Brazil

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

The carbon footprint of air freight is ten times that of truck freight; perhaps it's time for "slow shopping."

Tiny scales along the animals' bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water. These structures could do the same for aircraft.

If it weren't so subsidized, it would be a lot more expensive, and people might fly a lot less.

No more shopping blindly. It's time to question your whole approach to holiday gifts.

This artist mixes and matches up jigsaw puzzle pieces from different vintage puzzles to create mind-bending collages.

If you happen upon some life-size willow creatures in the woods, you can thank Anna & The Willow.

These delicate works of art are made out of current and vintage newspaper broadsheets, and prompt us to look beyond the daily news cycle.

Forget trying to broaden your horizons. Focus on deepening them instead.

These photo-luminescent artworks hide fascinating stories about the places and cities they are located in.

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

These fascinating works explore how folding might push the frontiers of flexible photovoltaics, self-assembling materials and nano-forms.

Atmospheric glazes of color and hand-shaped clay leaves and tree trunks adorn these beautiful ceramic pieces.

Influenced by realism and mythology, these impressive works impart a sense of wonder about the natural world.

These striking works combine natural materials with artificial processes to create crystallized surfaces reminiscent of coral.

'Coral Garden' is a handcrafted installation that's inspired by the world's threatened coral reefs, and made with upcycled materials.

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

Gorgeous, soft and looking like a living UFO, this enormous work of textile art is brightening up one Paris institution.

Sometimes you just need a bit of solitude and nature to get a project done.

Austria's Wörthersee football stadium is now thriving with life in an installation that is as beautiful as it is chilling.

Just take them with big photos, nobody will ever know.

This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging.

The impact of flying on climate change cannot be ignored, as I book my next flight.

Sure, it'll only have nine seats. But the low cost carrier expects larger electric planes in service by 2027.

In an effort to appease critics, the airport is focusing on four key environmental strategies.

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.

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.

But I have it easy compared to most North Americans, and perhaps am fooling myself.

Climate Caretakers offers a 7-week guide to reducing your carbon footprint.

The top 10 percent consumes 20 times more energy than the bottom 10 percent.

Soon, willow, alder, ash and oaks will grace the banks of the Maritza river once again.

Because a single day of #OptOutside isn't enough for real action.

25 years after the start of Mission Zero, they advance to Climate Take Back.

If you must shop, do it from a company that's spreading the wealth.

Shoppers have realized that paying a few extra cents can make or break a domestic food producer.

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.

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.

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.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

After two years of pressing pipeline regulators to release inspection photos and videos of the 60-year-old Enbridge pipeline that carries tar sands oil through the Straits of Mackinac, NWF took it upon themselves to inspect the pipeline.

The largest oil spill in the U.S. happened 25 years ago today.

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.