Artist Jessica Rath uses sculpture and photography to highlight the problem with new hybrid apples and endangered varieties.

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.

We have a look at the eco-sheds

But the hotel design competition is always interesting, even in an off year.

This is what happens when LEDs get cheaper and better: designers use more of them. Someone predicted this once.

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines."

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.

"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"

The Amazon is home to one of the most fascinating life forms of all -- humans, like us, but who are living free from the narrow confines of our 'civilization'.

Now confirmed, the legendary boiling river deep in the Amazon was long considered an impossibility due to its distance from active volcanoes.

A young Ecuador slender-legged tree frog considers a fern.

Nature gets digitized in these vibrant animations that feature audio recordings from the rainforest.

"She was an amazing animal," says one of the rescued otter's keepers. "She taught a lot of people about conservation."

On June 17, 2013, NASA's Terra Satellite captured a rare photograph of a clear view of Alaska. While the photo itself is beautiful, the reason for the nearly cloud-free sky has concerning implications for climate change.

Though accompanied by several friends at the beginning of this trip, he traveled the last thirty-three days alone.

A federal study of sea otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled around 30,000,000 gallons of oil about 25 years ago has concluded that the otters have returned to pre-spill numbers.

This stunning mountain range is located on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula.

What do greenhouse gases bubbling up look like? In these starkly elegant images, we get to seem them up close.

A hunter was hospitalized after the bear he shot tumbled down a ridge and hit him.

This month, BookHugger presents The Death and Life of Monterey Bay by Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka. Readers can order a discounted copy today and then join a live chat with the

Jacob's unpublished writings, essays and speeches from half a century ago seem just as vital and current as the day they were written.

Dr. Peter Gleick uncovers the complex truth to the bottled water industry, and makes a strong case for being realistic about our addiction.

Author Peter Gleick joins TreeHugger for a live chat about the story behind bottled water and what it means for our culture and environment.

Sometimes the conventional wisdom is right, but sometimes it’s dead wrong.

Finance blogger Cait Flanders describes the ups and downs of a year-long shopping ban and the unexpected lessons she learned along the way.

Sarah Archer shows how the kitchen became the colorful nerve center of the modern house.

These 131 exercises will teach you to block distractions and deepen your focus.

The stubborn hero refused to leave his goats ... miraculously, they all survived the firestorm.

Every person interested in environmental issues is well aware of the dangers of species extinction and the importance of conservation

Although activities that mess with local ecosystems to let humans experience nature usually seem intrusive, looking at the canopy face to face while slowly traveling in an aerial tram in the Costa Rican rainforest is a fairly

Hardly a secret anymore, but still off the beaten track a bit, Playa Guiones in Nosara, Costa Rica doesn't disappoint.

This container home in Costa Rica is almost a monster home, but has some interesting features.

Think kitten-meets-lamb in the latest installment of 'gratuitous cuteness distraction.'

He makes the case that it is better to have magnificent public parks than big private backyards.

We live in his world of conspicuous waste.

Once you have paid for the panels or turbines, renewable power is almost free.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has asked pilots to avoid flying too close to a group of about 35,000 walrus gathered on an Alaskan beach.

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

Activists risk arrest in an effort to prevent slow oil drilling exploration in the Arctic.

Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.

This week, delegates are meeting to determine the fate of a proposal to protect part of the Arctic. This pianist's moving performance urges people to show their support.

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.

70% of this potent pollutant comes from fossil fuels, not biomass burning.

Some 60 polar bears are loitering near Ryrkaipy in Chukotka Russia, a new occurrence which is prompting some to suggest permanent evacuation.

A couple, their parrot, plus one mother-in-law and her cat have their own private and communal spaces in this renovated apartment in Hong Kong.

Besides the usual hidden storage and mirrors to enlarge the space, this redesigned layout includes a slight rotation to improve circulation.

A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.

He is pushing incandescents, but your eyes change as you age, and older people need brighter, bluer and lots more light.

Is it doing the same for people?

Every year we go look for the latest in sustainable design. Every year the post gets shorter.