There is scant evidence that it actually boosts libido and sexual performance, and it could be harmful.

After a month under rubble, a nearly lifeless callery pear tree was found by 9/11 workers who were determined to save it.

Another reason to electrify everything.

Because store-bought guacamole has too much packaging and potentially strange ingredients; and bad homemade guacamole is sad.

Social distancing and quarantines don't mean you have to live on canned soup alone.

The pace of cooking has slowed down because we suddenly have extra time.

Mixing conservation with death care, a new start-up offers permanently protected memorial trees that solve a slew of problems.

Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --

Droughts and possible water rationing have been in the news recently in California, Israel, Mexico, and Australia. As much of the water used is these regions is for watering gardens and lawns

A new desalination technology company is looking to help clean up and recover some of the trillion gallons of salty wastewater from the oil and gas industry.

By combining solar PV, solar thermal, and a heat exchanger, Desolenator has developed a low-cost portable water purifier and desalination device powered by renewable energy.

This system could produce 3,500 gallons of clean water per day, at half the cost of current desalination methods, using just the motion of the waves to power the Reverse Osmosis process.

At the tech company's New Mexico data center, it found that oil-submerged servers require far less energy for cooling and actually perform better.

The technology uses radiative sky cooling to help cool buildings without electricity.

This could keep people from overheating in their wearable electronic outfits or simply in the heat of the ever-warming days

Octogenarian couple united by a love of entomology

It's an industrial design approach, a product that is refined almost to perfection.

Even if the label of "maven" is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and

A biodegradable show for (almost) all occasions. A cradle to cradle design inspired by ancient Amazon inhabitants. Lightweight, compact and multi-use- it's up to you what you do with it as long as you make sure you compost it at the end of its life.

This is turning into a really big bandwagon.

Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.

In order to prevent future pandemics, we need to change our relationship with wildlife

A shark's fin is like its fingerprint, with each animal having its own unique patterns and scars.

The action will prevent 10 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

Woodland caribou are considered threatened throughout much of Canada’s vast boreal forest.

Researchers find that dogs can be trained to sniff out the bacteria that causes citrus greening, with 99+ percent accuracy

They may be giving up four walls, but they are getting a lot in return.

C'mon guys, look where you are going. This is an Apple product and you are clearly using it wrong.

Even when made using hydro-electricity, aluminum production had a big carbon footprint.

A new study predicts that up to 21 million acres of rubber plantations will be required to meet our growing needs, spelling doom for biodiversity in parts of Southeast Asia.<

From knocking out fleas and ticks to fighting the havoc of hairballs, these simple, all-natural remedies are both planet and pet approved.

A new study finds that most recipes for homemade cat food lack essential nutrients and even contain potentially toxic ingredients.

This cascading staircase not only moves people, it can display books and other trinkets too.

Here's a bright idea for alternative energy -- a megabattery to smooth the peaks and troughs for a reliable power grid

Designed by an innovative 19-year-old, the Sun Saluter relies on a basic water clock to rotate solar panels.

There are many special things about the home of Gennaro Brooks-Church, the director of the green building firm Eco Brooklyn.

A novel technology surpasses white roofs with its cooling powers.

Lightweight shelters might be an affordable and quick option for emergency housing, but they are also susceptible to damage from high winds. This prototype could be a better solution.

Sustainable fashion expert Elizabeth Cline isn't convinced.

The goal is to highlight the abundance that already exists around us.

In light of rising temperatures and worsening natural disasters, temporary shelters seem increasingly relevant. A Spanish firm came up with an idea to convert water tanks into minimal habitable units.

In a decade-long case by a group of plaintiffs, a court sentenced a farmer and an aviator to prison for spraying agrochemicals, linking them to environmental pollution and health hazards. Only they can skip doing any time.

Designer Maria Antonia Godigna spent two years studying the spinning techniques of the Warao and created a line of furniture with Moriche, the palm fiber produced by them.

Spanish collective Basurama built a movable cinema mounted on a bike and used it to expose empty spots which could be turned into public spaces temporarily.

The latest urban intervention to celebrate the city's status as European Capital of Culture is an unusual film venue for pedestrians.

Of all of Niemeyer's impressive works, the 1960s Copan building in Sao Paulo is the one speaking directly to contemporary urban trends.

Nobody likes being beaten about the head with the eco-stick. As many of us have experienced, railing against friends and family about the state of the planet rarely produces favourable results, or in fact any result at all. That's why TreeHugger is a

Chairs are us and there are lots of them on display at the Clerkenwell Design Week.