The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.

The last pack of wolves in a Michigan national park is near extinction. Should humans intervene?

The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just

Do posh bees make better honey? These bees, living in the heart of Mayfair, only forage in the best places such as St. James Park and Buckingham Palace.

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.

Critics have been quick to say that Phonebloks isn't realistic with the current market. What they are missing is that this is the entire point of the project. Phonebloks aims to alter the present, but re-imagining the future.

Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.

The smartphone market isn't slowing down any time soon, but many people are returning to simpler, older phone models for a host of reasons.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Donating your old cell phones to these causes will keep them out of landfills and help others too.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

But is it truly modular?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the

All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps

Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. VeryPC, the British maker of energy-efficient

Look Ma! No heatsink!

Many users replace their smartphones every couple of years, even though they have years of life left in them. Here's how to keep your smartphone for longer while keeping up its performance.

What am I, the phone book blogger? It seems that way. After a ban on Yellow Pages in Seattle and a related industry lawsuit, the latest news on ditching phonebooks comes from Maryland. This time, it's the other way

These lovingly photographed, colourful rowhouses are what's left after all the neigbouring ones have been demolished.

New York's skyline is getting greener and a whole lot more productive too.

It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

An ecological economist says humans have been thinking about themselves all wrong.

New wind and solar will be cheaper than 96% of all existing coal by 2030.

It fosters connection and community, boosts happiness... and results in delicious baked goods.

Cornell students and Toronto company figure out how to upcycle old clothes on an industrial scale.

The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed

Don't give up; Collective and individual actions can change the world.

"Being the Change" is proof that weaning oneself off fossil fuels is not only possible, but also joyful and fun for a young suburban family.

Seriously ...

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the

At TreeHugger, we like to keep things realistic, raise a skeptical eyebrow to potential vaporware, and to keep in check our giddy inner children that get sweaty palms when we see something like the VentureOne. After all, a bright idea, some capital, and

At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new

Pollinator power, y'all.

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

A great gesture that allows you to zoom into a map with one hand on your smart phone.

A group of the drones were sent to fly around the massive mountain and take HD photos that were then made into a rich 3D model.

The software lets you virtually float down the Yampa River, which has been largely unchanged by man.

Times they are a changin'

A lesson in what happens when the humans disappear.

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?

The U.N. just came up with some climate change solutions, and none of them are "expect techy solutions to pull us out."

We don't hear about the ozone layer as much as we used to anymore, but that doesn't mean that the problem has been solved.

Proving once again that mankind can reverse the effects of our mistakes if we just take firm and fast action

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

This is how you get people out of cars and build better cities. So what's stopping them?