"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm -- ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

Designer Michelle Sheppard creates sustainable garments with a connection to cultural traditions.

Outfitted with GoPros and solar-powered GPS trackers, the crew of carrion-loving vigilantes is sniffing out illegal dumps in Lima.

"It's not just about the bees, it's about the survival of humanity"

And when you get to the top of this, you deserve a treat.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Using the flow of water inside the pipes to power the water network's own monitoring devices could eliminate the need for batteries in those systems.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

What to do when a church gets in the way of your water plans? Drown it.

Couldn't come up with a more succinct way of expressing this, so here it is direct from their website: "Central America has lost more than half of its rainforests in the last 50 years, contributing to mass extinctions and global warming. Rainforest

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

Researchers have developed a chip that can run off the low voltage deep within the inner ear.

A new wearable sensor technology that measures things like stance and force for sports also has the potential to harvest energy from waves, machinery or human movement.

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.

A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.

Jason Aramburu is trying to revolutionize how we garden by expanding the production of "Black Revolution" biochar, a soil-less growing medium made from farm waste.

Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group responsible for Saturday's attack in a Nairobi mall, receives significant funding from the illegal poaching. This is why the US sees wildlife trafficking as a national security issue.

A vagrant Cape Sea Lion that made a record trip to Kenya is rescued from a fisherman’s gillnet.

Decommissioned buses are getting a second useful life as mobile shelters for Honolulu's homeless.

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

This is candy in its purest form -- certified organic ingredients, zero artificial colors and flavors, no preservatives or GMOs.

Masao Yoshida, one of the Fukushima 50 who stayed behind at the earthquake and tsunami-struck power plant after the other employees evacuated, has just died from esophageal cancer.

More than two years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, the situation is worse than ever.

The number of wolves alone around Chernobyl is more than 7 times greater than can be found in other nature reserves.

The technology turns the problem of nuclear waste into a source of safe nuclear energy.

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.

And put away your phone if you are on vacation.

And more blaming the millennials, robots and boomers and kitchens are exhuasting.

and the last job on earth.

Scientists hope the technology that filmed it can make fishing more sustainable.

Abandoned fishing gear is a big problem. But a small army is training to tackle it.

Instead of tossing it, fisheries should capture the protein and fat left in water and use it to feed humans and animals a second time around.