The world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard - needs a new environment if it's going to survive

Researchers have found that an Alzheimer's drug triggers dentine regrowth, eliminating need for fillings.

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.

Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.

"It was cool to be in the right place at the right time," says Dr. Sciascia.

Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems

The challenge is to re-evaluate the materials we consume and the way we manufacture products so as to cut down on waste.

Between the industrial waste, rats, and lead dust floating around, I wasn't sure if I should start an urban garden. The question took me to an unexpected place.

That was the advice of Shakespeare's Polonius, but then there is the sharing economy. Which is it?

Pull out the ionization detectors and go photoelectric.

It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,

Looking beyond traditional recyclables and the "blue bin", here are some of the organizations and companies seeking to redefine what we consider trash with alternative recycling initiatives and methods of reuse.

As Asian countries buy more electronics, the piles of discarded devices are increasing and it's putting people in danger.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

These lovingly photographed, colourful rowhouses are what's left after all the neigbouring ones have been demolished.

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

It fosters connection and community, boosts happiness... and results in delicious baked goods.

The future of green building depends on what comes out of our soil.

Unless, of course, TINA gets in the way.

Actually, a bit more than 100%.

Ed. note: This post, about ethanol is now the third post (read about biodiesel and compost to catch up) in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

How to slow it? Access to voluntary family planning for all women. It more than pays for itself, reducing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, unplanned births... And helps reduce humanity's environmental impact.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.

If the latest projections prove to be accurate, we need to plan for about a 10% increase in the needed supply of food, drinking water, and energy, and in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

National almond, walnut and pistachio crops are very thirsty, and predominantly grown in drought-stricken California; if you’re looking for alternatives, consider these.

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

Once upon a time I put together a guide on how to green your wedding, and I even blogged about my own DIY-flavored eco-wedding. But my darling wife and I have been upstaged by Julia Davis and Andy

Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a "pay-as-you-throw" scheme for trash, our readers were

Competition, oversupply, and unpredictable weather has caused the price of wild berries in Maine to hit a 30-year low.

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway

It's hard to imagine that the widespread issue of electronic waste could be seen as anything more than a problem, but what if it could be reused to make homegrown algae biofuels? That's what industrial design students at of the

We really do need more of this kind of thinking.

EnerGaia, a Thai startup, is using the rooftop of a Bangkok hotel to harvest spirulina. Is this the new edible rockstar of urban farming?

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.

If you thought the top market for electric car growth was somewhere in California, you'd be right many months out of the year, but not the 4th quarter of 2013.

"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.

When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.

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.

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

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

If you guessed that climate-crisis-fueled, disease-carrying mosquitoes are wiping them out, you may be correct.

Architentions design a lovely "parallel imaginative world"

Tomorrow's home urban farm may not need soil, just an Urban Farm Pod that doubles as an extra living space (emphasis on the "living").

Hand-made with high quality, sustainably harvested woods, this is one desk meant for both kids and grown-ups.

From an existing two-storey transformed into four compact floors, this 11 ft. wide house is redone into a much more spacious home.