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

Cigarette filters are a scam and are a leading source of plastic pollution worldwide, say experts.

This year's Stress in America survey by the American Psychological Association might make you feel not so all alone.

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

This rebellious, edgy-looking turtle is now unfortunately facing extinction, and conservationists are fighting to save it.

From crayfish to parakeets, these species are at risk of disappearing from the planet.

The 'puffin patrol' is saving baby puffins by the handful.

One of the '25 most wanted' lost species, the silver-backed chevrotain is a snaggle-toothed, deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit and walk on its tippy toes.

Humanity's innate love for nature is integrated into this design for a biologically attuned and meditative workspace in London.

An object lesson in how not to do city-building.

Move over royal baby, there's an infant two-toed sloth in town.

Adriano Studio shows the future of induction cooking with Ordine

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.

Can a recirculating fan deliver the indoor air quality we should demand?

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

Concerned about Asian carp? Meet the invasive cousins, you might say, of the monster fish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a white paper on 40 high-risk species to watch out for,

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.

Humans dump millions of tons of phosphorus into lakes every year, and it's destroying their ecosystems.

We have long called for deposits on everything. California shows that even that is not enough.

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

Hailed by Rob Hopkins as "possibly the biggest peak oil/climate change/Transition event to take place in the UK", Bristol's Big Event looks set to be a huge collective exploration of the future for this city of 400,000 residents as fossil fuels

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

We like Ecotricity, the UK-based green energy company that is busy planning and erecting urban wind turbines across the country. We’ve written about their partnership with Popeye, we’ve brought news of their collaborations with Lotus and Ben and

Local currencies are nothing new, but one city is allowing its businesses to pay their taxes with local money.

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."

As part of their larger Campus Sustainability Initiative, Emory University (GA) students are being asked to commit to each doing three green things in their personal life and on campus. While the program is voluntary, the university

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you

It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.

Pandas, which are one of the better known endangered species out there, just aren't very good at breeding, making their survival more problematic than if, say, they had cubs by the bucketload every year.

Yumbii, an Atlanta-based food truck, adds a low emissions super food truck to its fleet. Check out its environmentally friendly features.

It is the first big city in the South to commit to being fully renewable energy powered.

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

Under pressure from parents and breast cancer groups, Campbell's Soup says it has transition plan away from BPA in motion

Without a hint of irony, FDA maintains several web pages with helpful information for parents and others wishing to avoid BPA, such as: “What You Can Do to Minimize Your Infant’s Exposure to BPA.”

From one problem to the next...

Scientists have found that the chemicals used to replace BPA over the past 20 years have the same damaging effects.

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate

Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near

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

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.

It's a 340 ton rock, balancing over a crevice...forever.

Recent rains attributed to a changing climate are leading to mass extinction in the Atacama Desert.

Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California.

Thanks to COVID-19, a lot more than previously thought.

Our photo of the day reveals the wonderful frippery of waterfowl.

Here's what to know about America's favorite bird of prey.

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