Why are we wasting such a valuable resource? Where will it come from if we don't drill for natural gas?

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

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

Some things were never meant to go in the blue bin.

It's as if Chris Knight left for a weekend camping trip, but didn't come home for a quarter-century.

For Arbor Day, learn how to show damaged trees the love they deserve.

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.

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

Perfect for tiny spaces, this multifunctional unit can be used as a kitchen, storage and workspace.

Perhaps having kids cooking with gas is not such a good idea after all.

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

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,

Bristol, UK, just keeps on popping up on Treehugger. Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn’t end there. It’s also

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

"Most people are already operating ‘off grid’ in different ways to varying degrees, but the vast majority don’t feel the need to make a big lifestyle song and dance about it."

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

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

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

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.

Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.

At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are

We love transformers, those things that serve multiple functions. But I wonder about this one.

Kids deserve a better example than that.

The film director believes that ocean exploration could help us to prepare better for climate catastrophes.

Designed with the ultra-minimalist office in mind, this all-wood desk has a lot of concealed places to stash your clutter.

This smart system automatically frees up floorspace and can learn your preferences.

The modular MoreFloor system lets you store things in your floor -- clothes, shoes, even a bed.

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.

A writer argues that glitzy new plant-based technology distracts from the bigger issue of animal welfare.

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

Rosh Hashana, also known as the Jewish New Year, was celebrated this past week. One of the iconic symbols of the holiday, is honey, which is eaten with challah and apples. Honey has important meaning for the celebrants of Rosh

Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects win design competition.

Cornell study finds that when people have easy access to food shops, they discard less at home.

This shipping container house stacks two to get more living space.

Using special laser surveying equipment, the drones will discover how ancient tribes lived.

Dr. Peter Gleick uncovers the complex truth to the bottled water industry, and makes a strong case for being realistic about our addiction.

You'll be shocked to learn what goes on behind the scenes at grocery stores – and relieved to know there's a much better alternative.

Greenpeace wants you to vote on your favorite of its submissions, all inspired by local endangered species.

You would think that attending a conference on sustainable tourism in Costa Rica would be a bit bland: yes, they're very green, we know. But just because this Central

These people know a thing or two about money. And they say it's INACTION that's going to cost us.

Commonly thought to be a byproduct of economic distress, a new report suggest that dollar stores are a cause of it.