"Brains: The Mind as Matter" at the Wellcome Collection features 150 objects including real brains, anatomical models and artworks, and more.

From palm oil invaders to adorable Sumatran rhinos, this story about a recent environmental victory will inspire you.

Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything,' launched the Leap Manifesto at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read and sign it here to join the call for a more sustainable and equitable future.

It's an unlikely match between a 47-year-old Peruvian subsistence farmer and a giant American mining corporation, and yet the former is winning the battle.

It became too difficult for students and teachers to reconcile eating meat with caring for abandoned animals.

A dramatic act of protest reminds companies to take responsibility for the wasteful packaging they produce.

Climate change is already killing people around the world. Now the British Medical Association has vowed to do something about it.

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

My problem with the word "humane" and the humanism movement

The world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard - needs a new environment if it's going to survive

Ordinary humans can see about 1 million colors, but thanks to a genetic mutation, this artist can see an estimated 100 million colors.

In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

Researchers are poring over an important medieval medical text with 360 recipes, many of which might have successfully fought infection long before modern science.

A new study on chicken embryos may help researchers understand how humans developed their sensitive daylight vision.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.

After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.

Germans rate respect for having a national identity as eco-conscious people. Should it therefore come as a surprise that Germans are not embracing the advent of E10, a 10% ethanol-gasoline mixture, which has

As nanoparticles spread widely into consumer products as well as offering great technological promise in certain applications, how can we judge the risks?

ZH architects faced a lot of serious challenges here, and came up with innovative solutions.

It runs the full width of the car. What could possibly be the problem?

It wouldn't solve everything, but becoming a solar power hub could give a new spark to the area.

This could turn 5-7 billion square meters of glass in the USA alone into solar power plants, plus power your cell phone and other gadgets

Raking Without the Cussing Sometimes the greenest products are those not marketed as green at all – take the humble rake for instance. As a TreeHugger I already know that leaf blowers are the scourge of humanity (and don’t even get me started on leaf

Is it time to ban these useless and unnecessary noise and pollution machines?

"The world is sweet and verdant

Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.

There's a lot to look forward to, but what should we expect to see more of in the short-term?

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.

The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being made in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades.

Artist Roland Roos finds broken things and fixes them—whether you've asked him to or not.

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.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets

Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that

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

How can a city destroy an edible garden on private property without legal permission? We also have the viral party-gone-wrong prank on Shell, the 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables, and more.

It's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of a body than burning or burying.

More importantly, it reminds scientists not to lose sight of the importance of human behavior in the search for answers about the physical processes of climate change

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."

Anticipation hangs palpably ahead of the Frankfurt International Motor Show: what will German engineers bring to the green table? After bucking the trend for several years in favor of the already well-established "clean diesel" technology, German car

Well, as much as you can humanize a $136,000 sports car.

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

And there are plenty of humans who would agree.

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.

The number is probably far higher than you think.

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

Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?

Burning fossil fuels puts out a lot more than just CO2.