Here's what happens when kind humans and open-armed owls encounter an orphaned owlet.

Now confirmed, the legendary boiling river deep in the Amazon was long considered an impossibility due to its distance from active volcanoes.

Though accompanied by several friends at the beginning of this trip, he traveled the last thirty-three days alone.

The largest wildlife refuge in the United States needs protection from oil & gas development.

Long admired for its beneficial medicinal properties, Alaskan farmers are happy to find that this Siberian herb loves their climate.

A modern life without plastic may seem an impossibility, but this Canadian duo shows it's achievable.

An ambitious couple set out to travel from Washington to the Alaskan Arctic, off the beaten track and under their own power.

Contrary to popular opinion, young people aren't practicing what they preach.

The wonderful world of birds, painted in life size and all together on a huge 2,500-square-foot wall.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

Average temperatures in the city have rose 1.8˚C, minimal temperatures went up 2.7˚C, and rainfall has increased 20% in the past 50 years.

Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that

Stockholm and London are famous for congestion charging to keep cars out of central districts. Now Milan's heading that direction, with impressive results

These new sweetened beverages are flying off store shelves, much to doctors' chagrin – and to children's detriment.

That's the simple premise behind this campaign. Cameron Sinclair, "lumberjack sized Brit", author of Design Like You Give a Damn, and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity tells the story of meeting Natalie "Alabama" Chanin at a conference

I'm a big fan of scenario thinking. Although no one can predict "the future," several plausible scenarios can be constructed, informing decisions made difficult by many unknowns. A good decision works in

British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick plume was detected

They have toilets but they just dump the sewage out the back. This is nuts.

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

This fascinating film reveals disturbing facts about malnutrition and infant mortality, and the role of insidious corporations in perpetuating these problems.

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.

Built for a sculptor and his new family on the site of an old gold mine and sawmill, this house uses reclaimed concrete blocks weighing a ton each.

To do their part toward tackling the climate crisis, the Emerald Isle is undertaking a massive reforestation project.

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

This stair does it all: it's a connector, a partition, a bench, a counter and a concealer of clutter.

The big Danish design competition really has similar goals to TreeHugger: to promote good green design that makes the world better

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

Just yesterday I joked seated at my neighborhood's dive-y, not-concerned-about-clean-food diner that the likely hormone-injected milk I stirred into my coffee might spur the growth of a third boob. It was a risk I was

It's cow bliss at a dairy in Hertfordshire, England run by the Hare Krishnas. There are only 44 of them but life is sweet: On this farm all the cows have names, they are hand-milked whilst listening to Sanskrit music and

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

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

Octogenarian couple united by a love of entomology

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.

The machine with a mission exceeds everyone's wildest dreams

The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.

Wanting to make a massive life change, this man makes his exit from the corporate world -- with his feline friend and a self-renovated van.

This family's self-built tiny house is part of a small off-grid homestead out in Maui.

Finally, the inside of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is done. The church, set out to build 125 years ago and expected to be finished in 2026, attracts millions of visitors every year. This is no surprise due to the

In a move which Connecticut governor Jodi Rell says will help position Connecticut as "the preferred location to grow clean tech jobs", the state has launch the Connecticut Clean Tech Fund to

Last month, a mountain lion was struck and killed by a car in Connecticut -- and new details have emerged suggesting the animal had an incredible, record-breaking journey before it met that sad end. Following the accident,

A female northern elephant seal protects her newborn pup as she warns away a young male with amorous intentions for her.

Have you ever wondered what 'community living' really looks like, and why people do it?

Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than 4,000 Colombians murdered

Record breaking extreme weather isn't just plaguing the Midwest: Colombia has had 5-6 times more rainfall than usual for the past ten months--which has killed 425 people so far, covered 1 million hectares with water, and left 3 million people as what

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

A new campaign is seeking to turn the city into a pollinator's playground by planting a wildflower for every resident.

Every little flower helps. Especially when there's a lot of us planting them.

But not so fast, says the Mayor.

Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October.