For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

Walking and other gentle movements could power the next generation of devices.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are banding together to combat unlawful timber products and curb deforestation.

Tons of jellyfish clog a water intake pipe at the Oskarshamn power plant in Sweden, forcing operators to shut down the reactor.

From mislabelling to plastic contamination, eating fish isn't as safe or healthy as most diners would like to believe.

Why do we always think other animals are so simple?

Fossil fuel divestment is a moral issue. Religious institutions appear to be taking a stand.

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.

If there's a holy grail of liquid renewable fuels it might look something like this: High yield per acre, doesn't negatively impact water supplies, doesn't compete with food crops, and is cost-competitive with fossil

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

As nanoparticles spread widely into consumer products as well as offering great technological promise in certain applications, how can we judge the risks?

Raking Without the Cussing Sometimes the greenest products are those not marketed as green at all – take the humble rake for instance. As a TreeHugger I already know that leaf blowers are the scourge of humanity (and don’t even get me started on leaf

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

Technological advancements, combined with an escalating climate crisis, suggest its time to revisit some once fanciful ideas.

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.

Ed. note: This is now the fifth post in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new greenies (or those who just need a quick refresher). Read on and

Ecological footprint: what is it? An analysis that gauges our impact on the planet's biological systems, the ecological footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them.

Taking a step back from the emotional response of the recent environmental devastation, let's take a look at offshore drilling more broadly: How much oil do we currently produce from offshore drilling, and how much might we potentially recover?

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

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

Who says you can't have both beauty and efficiency?

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

We visit the writer behind the Zero Waste blog TrashIsForTossers.com.

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.

Just what is man's (or woman's) best friend thinking?

Scott Z. Burns explains why the villain of his blockbuster film is an anti-science blogger, while the heroes are government officials.

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a

When the oft-predicted water wars start, we're going to want this technology on our side. Let's hope it survives the budget wars.

Scientists say levels are dangerously high, affecting wildlife and ecosystems.

A blog confuses corrugated metal with containers on a project that could have been interesting for its own sake.

Solar Sister showcased just some of the efforts taking place around the world. Here, the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania install solar panels in their villages. They received training in Rajasthan, India. Image: Barefoot Photographers of

An amazing wooden bicycle, hand-made in Spain by two brothers for professional cyclists. The wooden frame is lightweight, resistant and beautiful!

The carbon footprint of concrete can be a whole lot better, if you make it out of carbon dioxide.

This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging.

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."

Impact of greenhouse gases released since October measured over a 20-year time frame is equivalent to emissions from 7 million cars.

A new water treatment system could save billions of gallons of water each year by recovering almost all of the waste water at bottling plants and water treatment facilities.

This novel wave energy technology can deliver large volumes of high pressure water ashore for desalination or power production (or both).

The thermostat add-on lets consumers set a limit to what they want to spend on cooling and heating and then it controls the temperature to keep energy use in check.

The dual source heat pump uses either the ground or the air as a heat source.

Until now, no species has had such a profound effect on shaping the Earth's biosphere as the humble broiler chicken.

Where did your paper coffee cup come from? Does it support a red-cockaded woodpecker? Or a gopher tortoise?

Getting people out of cars and rebuilding our main streets is not going to be easy, and cannot be oversimplified.

When wind speeds are higher than a turbine can effectively use, the extra energy is stored for when the wind slows.

Can the hospitality industry learn something when a French chef with a degree in logistics opens a no waste restaurant in London?

TreeHugger and UNEP announce return of World Environment Day Blogging Competition.