If this plan even halfway succeeds, oil companies will be in serious trouble.

This contemporary urban home mixes reclaimed materials from local demolition sites with a modern design.

Uttar Pradesh is going to be looking a lot greener after a marathon 24-hour tree-planting frenzy.

These vertical towers, made of artificially diverted glacial meltwater, are a brilliant idea and possible solution to alleviate water shortages brought on by the fast-melting Himalayan glaciers.

That's way sooner than almost anyone expected.

Vegans will love this cookbook that has grown out of a popular Indian food blog. Now it's possible to enjoy classics like tofu-paneer in spinach and chicken-free balti.

After 25 years of buying land in India that farmers no longer wanted, the husband and wife now play host to elephants, monkeys and more; see a new video about their work here.

Using traditional techniques and materials, this design adapts the age-old idea of evaporative cooling to create a low-energy, alternative air conditioner.

The state of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai, collected nearly $6,000 in fines this past Sunday from businesses that haven't gotten rid of banned plastics yet.

Tata kills the world’s cheapest car that nobody wanted.

The chicken-producing giant is desperate to rebrand itself as an ethical, transparent poultry producer.

Jackson McLean is the face of a new vegan food movement on this remote Canadian island that's long been defined by fishing.

The so-called "bleeding" veggie burger is bleedin' everywhere these days.

If these drugs have a fattening effect on livestock animals, it's logical that they would do the same for humans.

Cargill Meat is recalling 132,600 pounds of beef products nationwide that may be contaminated with E. coli.

The premature deaths are linked to excessive breeding.

Another massive recall raises questions about food safety standards -- and how animals are raised.

Fall isn't just known for the end of summer, finally-I-can-turn-off-the-air-conditioning temperatures, afternoon football games, and a return to your favorite soups and stews: It's also famous for its bounty of rich, saturated

Using mushrooms to challenge our unhealthy obsession with "body preservation," artist Jae Rhim Lee fabricates a suit that will remediate environmental toxins from dead bodies.

Designer Paulo Alves took down all walls and created multi-function furniture for his small place.

These transforming shoes can go from flat to a stylish stiletto within seconds.

Our always-on devices turn out to consume a lot of power. Do I really need to connect my garage door to the Internet?

If all Americans adopted this (almost) waterless method of cooking pasta, we'd save billions of gallons of water.

Plus two ways to go green as we upgrade our popular series.

Not to mention getting buried in dirt or building with it.

And a few looks back at themes of the last ten years.

We love little boxes!

We're not called TreeHugger for nothing.

Because we are not called TreeHugger for nothing.

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

An amusing new study delves into the social consequences of one person witnessing another person doing the 'ethical thing' -- and why it makes them uncomfortable.

While advertising her new film "Beauty & the Beast", Watson wants people to think about how and where clothes are made.

This is beginning to get real.

Nippon Life Insurance will become first major Japanese institutional investor to ditch coal.

With the social networking site Facebook recently opening up their platform to external applications, many organizations and companies are taking advantage of the social connection that Facebook thrives on. We previously covered attempts to use

With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg facing criticism for supporting Keystone XL pipeline, a comedy duo mocks Facebook "Mess" Everything Up Department.

Non-profit organizations can now use the site to run fundraising campaigns and the simplicity could make a big impact.

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

A decade ago, the Taliban's destruction of two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley drew worldwide attention to Afghanistan's rich archaeological

The Muslim American Society of Charlotte isn't just putting solar on its mosque. 40 of its congregants are going solar too.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee at The Guardian writes about the deeper human issue at risk in our ongoing environmental crises - a disconnection from the ecosystem.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.

As a keystone species, the importance of the sea otter on the health of coastal ecosystems can't be understated. A new study shows that they may even play a key role in helping coastlines cope with agricultural run-off.

Just when you think climate change couldn't get any worse... BEARS!

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

The Nature Conservancy is teaching New Yorkers about the protective natural ecosystems in the city

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

Not in the ocean. Below it.

Got ladybugs? Encourage native ladybugs in your garden instead of buying wild-harvested ladybugs to manage pests.