It could also help us eradicate heritable diseases in dogs.

The real life romance sparked while making a merry romp of this endangered species protection success story could be the sequel!

Clean drinking water is one of our basic human needs, but in many parts of the world, it's also hard to come by. Here's another look at some of the latest concepts for providing clean drinking water.

Providing clean water in areas with minimal local resources may be as simple as implementing this ingenious DIY water treatment system.

Burning fossil fuels puts out a lot more than just CO2.

And it couldn't come a moment too soon.

You might want to rethink that dream house by the ocean.

Lack of diversity makes grapes vulnerable to climate change.

What happens when you restrict cars? Transit use, cycling and walking increase dramatically.

A series of newspaper articles ask the wrong question.

Carbon dioxide continues as the main concern, but we ignore methane at our own risk

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

How big of a locavore are you? Could you eat only foods that were available to Native Americans before 1600?

More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

"Bags for life," as they're called, do not get reused nearly as much as retailers would like to believe.

Judith Thornton questions the conventional wisdom about plastic packaging. She has a controversial point.

Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the

Some pretty smart designers, builders and consultants have a pretty good idea for a sensible building standard.

Though only powering 75-100 homes at launch, the TidGen Cobscook Bay project, in Eastport, Maine, is slated to expand to ten times its initial size.

Picture having a massive, beautiful expanse of woods near your home. You go there to hike, fish, hunt -- just to enjoy nature. Now picture a highway running through it.

It's a mix of good design, a tough standard and sophisticated engineering.

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.

The Japanese pursuit of shinrin-yoku uses trees and nature to heal oneself – here's how you can do it even in a park.

What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins?

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.

New trucks will all have much greater visibility for the drivers, saving lives of people who walk and cycle.

This is how you get people out of cars and build better cities. So what's stopping them?

When you think Mexico, think biofuels (not just tequila). That's the message of OriginOil, a Los Angeles, California, company that's been contracted by the Mexican government to produce 1 percent of the

This year, NOAA predicts a massive "dead zone" the size of New Jersey will bloom in the Gulf of Mexico. Brian Merchant reports on the cause and consequences of dead zones.

An interesting design concept that envisions humans becoming semi-photosynthetic thanks to a symbiotic relationship with algae.

This one of a kind structure combines architecture, technology, algae farming and real-time data, and will dynamically respond to environmental factors like weather and movements of people.

Instead of using a conventional polyurethane core, this sustainable surfboard starts with an algae-based foam blank.

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida

Just a reminder to our UK-based readers that Transition City Bristol's Big Event, which we posted on last week, is coming up on Sunday. Billed by Rob Hopkins, originator of the Transition Towns concept, as "Possibly the biggest Peak Oil/Climate

The UK-based renewable energy company Ecotricity recently won an award from the renewable energy agency for South West England for its development of three giant wind turbines at the industrial Avonmouth Docks site on the outskirts of Bristol (which we

Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs

The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that.

It was a sad day last year when intense lobbying efforts in Congress won out, and a ban on BPA in children's products was blocked. But it seems that China and Malaysia have beaten us to the punch. According to Green Biz, China and

More and more stores are getting rid of paper receipts and offering to send electronic versions by email.

A new study from the University of Illinois shows how chemical exposure early in life can alter stem cells and cause disease.

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

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,

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