Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's

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?

Cleaning products are everywhere in our homes and offices: on dishes, countertops, furniture, clothes, floors, windows, and floating through the air. In our war on dirt and germs we may often actually be making things worse.

Love to accessorize, but want to stay green? Here are some ways you can do both.

Teachers, are you looking for ways to teach green values to your students? We've got ideas lined up for you!

Reducing your carbon footprint and building community go hand-in-hand toward creating a better planet.

Resolve to make these simple changes month by month as a graceful way to ease into a more sustainable lifestyle.

A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work and good news for the bottom line.

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores

The researchers have found a simple way to create an energy source for fuel cells using CO2 in the air.

In what is said to be a first for automakers, Ford is developing foams and plastics using captured carbon dioxide, which could be integrated into the company's vehicles within five years.

Researchers were shocked to discover what part of the bread-making process generates most emissions.

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.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

Natural materials are the only ones that sequester carbon rather than produce it.

The goal could be reached even earlier, if Scots changed what they eat.

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.

The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.

Here's why the United Nations' Rio+20 Conference matters to everyone.

Opposition from the G77 Nations and the Vatican led to the removal of the words 'reproductive rights' from the Rio+20 text, leaving in 'acceptable modern methods of family planning'.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.

On National Book Lovers Day, we celebrate the ultimate slow hobby.

The number is probably far higher than you think.

There is a third, more sustainable option: the library.

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

Pollinator power, y'all.

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature

Move over, regular solar panels.

Primary energy consumption was down, too.

For those who say it's too difficult...

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.

One of the UK's "Big Six" energy companies has gone a dark shade of green.

The country's onward march of low carbon energy shows no signs of stopping.

Now that's progress...

It's an important inflection point. But a lot of work still remains.

The British government sees offshore wind as a genuine opportunity to lead.

Sometimes we should just let a bad idea die.