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,

At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical

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

The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the "loss of protective vegetation." Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover

Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until

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.

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?

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.

As the only canids that can climb trees, gray foxes frequently drag fawn and rabbit skeletons onto the branches with them.

Recent rains attributed to a changing climate are leading to mass extinction in the Atacama Desert.

Doing laundry uses up a lot of energy and releases tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every year. Here are some tips for reducing your impact.

How green does your garden really grow? Top 10 tips for making sure your garden is chemical free and growing strong.

Yes, in theory. Doing it in practice is a whole other story. This is another example of how the hydrogen economy is a fantasy.

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

So many flavors and colors of gas these days. They are all problematic.

As it turns out, personal energy choices can be contagious.

If a massive water footprint, air pollution, contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and general environmental degradation weren't bad enough...r

It's killing everything, including renewable energy.

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.

Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California.

Here is another reason to hate the Hudson Yards in New York City.

Our photo of the day reveals the wonderful frippery of waterfowl.

Discovered in a cave, the surprising find reveals a fast and giant bird that weighed almost as much as a polar bear.

If you guessed that climate-crisis-fueled, disease-carrying mosquitoes are wiping them out, you may be correct.

The reward for information leading to an arrest has climbed to $12,000.

Some birds are charming, others majestic or graceful; the subject for our daily photo has it all.

Our photo of the day comes from above the Pacific Ocean.

Our photo of the day comes from Hampton, New Hampshire.

Few other animals are known to be intrinsically motivated to assist others in need.

Our majestic photo of the day comes from Quebec, Canada.

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

They also build a "tree house" for themselves. It's almost an indoor community.

It's the usual fight between the contractor who wants to be paid for cost overruns and the developer who claims it's all a fixed price contract.

Common Good was started by Sacha Dunn and her husband Edmund Levine out of their personal desire to have refillable and eco-friendly option when it comes to cleaning supplies.

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

A new collaborative space dedicated to sustainable fashion design is now open for production.

A charming treehouse is made from recycled wood and glass.

Featuring eye-catching geometries, local and non-toxic materials, these unique furniture pieces meld a medley of traditional weaving and woodworking techniques.

Solar panels, distributed energy, resilient microgrids, and blockchain. Oh my!

Tomorrow's home urban farm may not need soil, just an Urban Farm Pod that doubles as an extra living space (emphasis on the "living").

Hand-made with high quality, sustainably harvested woods, this is one desk meant for both kids and grown-ups.

In Brooklyn and Toronto, the same story: "accidents" where cyclists somehow lose control, fall under rear wheels.

From an existing two-storey transformed into four compact floors, this 11 ft. wide house is redone into a much more spacious home.

These multi-talented stairs do more than one thing in this apartment renovation in Brooklyn.

The vase designed and named after Finnish designer Alvar Aalto is an icon among the design-savvy. The now-classic piece was released in 1937 at the World Fair in Paris. Today, the vase is produced by Iittala, which has slightly changed the size and

Just when we thought there was a chance for a rationalist US Administration to mesh with the Climate-action oriented EU and with an increasingly open-minded China...[Vaclav] Klaus has called man-made global