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If BPA is so terrible, why is everybody still drinking beer and pop out of BPA lined cans?

There is a fundamental logical inconsistency here. Either the stuff is bad for you or it isn't.




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The surprising impact of paper receipts

A new bill in California would make digital receipts the default; here's why it's a big deal.




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Could Bacteria-Filled Balloons Stop the Spread of the Sahara? Architect Magnus Larsson Thinks So

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,




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Bustan Builds a Model of Desert Sustainability

After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan, an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to




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Arizona Art Museum Seeks to Define Sustainability

From a painter's satirical take on 1950s images of a bucolic world to




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Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food

Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near




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Africa's Great Green Wall Hopes to Stop the Spreading Sahara - If It Ever Gets Planted

It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders are meeting in Chad to further push the




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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region




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Footballs To Be Made from Feral Camel Leather

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and




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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native




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Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until




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Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.




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8 Awesome Airstream Hotels, From the California Desert to the French Pyrenees

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.




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How to reverse desertification. With rocks.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?




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Prehistoric shrimp emerge from Australian desert after heavy rain

Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.




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Tree-dwelling gray foxes decorate with skeletons

As the only canids that can climb trees, gray foxes frequently drag fawn and rabbit skeletons onto the branches with them.




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The US is drowning in natural gas, yet they keep drilling and fracking

There is so much that they can't burn it here, so they compress it, liquify it, and ship it. That's not working out too well either.




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The beauty of wind turbines

Photographer Joan Sullivan documents the drama of their construction.




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Swedish company is building wind turbine towers out of timber

It seems that you can build just about anything out of wood.




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School board apologizes for "Santa Goes Green" concert in oil patch

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.




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"Gasmaggedon" will make it even harder to electrify everything

It's why we have to reduce demand as well, with radical efficiency.




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Another problem with fracking: Increased sexually transmitted infections?

If a massive water footprint, air pollution, contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and general environmental degradation weren't bad enough...r




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Why is Canada fighting over a gas pipeline to nowhere?

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.




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How many people will Trump's fuel efficiency rollback kill?

Thanks to COVID-19, a lot more than previously thought.




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Bald eagles are littering Seattle backyards with landfill trash

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.




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Photo: Beautiful barn owl soars over a field

Our photo of the day comes from the Essex countryside.




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Photo: California towhee is the picture of spring

Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California.




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Photo: Family meal, flamingo-style

Our photo of the day shows how to make an awkward bill look like a thing of grace.




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Glass buildings are killing hundreds of millions of birds every year

Here is another reason to hate the Hudson Yards in New York City.




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Photo: Wood duck proves Mother Nature's flair for drama

Our photo of the day reveals the wonderful frippery of waterfowl.




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Photo: Bitty burrowing owl peeks out from below

Our photo of the day features one of the smallest of North American owls.




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Photo: Black-bellied whistling ducks peer from the pier

Our photo of the day comes from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas.




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Photo: Baby song sparrows sing for their supper

Our photo of the day is a lesson in singing and building.




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11-foot-tall bird discovered in Crimea

Discovered in a cave, the surprising find reveals a fast and giant bird that weighed almost as much as a polar bear.




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7 of the most surprising urban birds found in US cities

Pigeons sure, but urban eagles and city vultures? A beautifully illustrated new book, Urban Aviary, spills their secrets.




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13 facts about the beautiful bald eagle

Here's what to know about America's favorite bird of prey.




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Sammy, the one-winged bald eagle, snatched from wildlife refuge

The reward for information leading to an arrest has climbed to $12,000.




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The zany, swinging lives of acorn woodpeckers

Welcome to some of the most bizarre social behavior on Earth.




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Photo: Snowy egret is the epitome of elegance

Some birds are charming, others majestic or graceful; the subject for our daily photo has it all.




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Photo: Young peregrine displays its perfect form

Our photo of the day comes from above the Pacific Ocean.




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African grey parrots surprise researchers with their altruism

Few other animals are known to be intrinsically motivated to assist others in need.




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These deaf moths defy bats using stealthy acoustic camouflage

Some moth species have evolved noise-cancelling abilities that are more efficient than today's sound engineering technology.




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Artists create a tiny house in a loft

They also build a "tree house" for themselves. It's almost an indoor community.




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Construction halted on world's tallest prefab in Brooklyn

It's the usual fight between the contractor who wants to be paid for cost overruns and the developer who claims it's all a fixed price contract.




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Marlow Goods offers farm-to-table purses

These designer bags from Brooklyn are made with local leather.




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Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator welcomes its first entrepreneurs

A new collaborative space dedicated to sustainable fashion design is now open for production.




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Tour a Brooklyn treehouse built from an old water tower

A charming treehouse is made from recycled wood and glass.




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Lovewild Designs crafts beautiful confetti and stationery that blooms

A sustainably-minded designer makes cards and paper coins that you can plant.




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Striking natural furniture weaves geometry with traditional craft techniques

Featuring eye-catching geometries, local and non-toxic materials, these unique furniture pieces meld a medley of traditional weaving and woodworking techniques.




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Brooklyn's new community micro-grid will allow for peer-to-peer renewable energy sharing

Solar panels, distributed energy, resilient microgrids, and blockchain. Oh my!