Lack of diversity makes grapes vulnerable to climate change.

What happens when you restrict cars? Transit use, cycling and walking increase dramatically.

A series of newspaper articles ask the wrong question.

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

How big of a locavore are you? Could you eat only foods that were available to Native Americans before 1600?

More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

"Bags for life," as they're called, do not get reused nearly as much as retailers would like to believe.

Judith Thornton questions the conventional wisdom about plastic packaging. She has a controversial point.

Though only powering 75-100 homes at launch, the TidGen Cobscook Bay project, in Eastport, Maine, is slated to expand to ten times its initial size.

Picture having a massive, beautiful expanse of woods near your home. You go there to hike, fish, hunt -- just to enjoy nature. Now picture a highway running through it.

It's a mix of good design, a tough standard and sophisticated engineering.

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

New trucks will all have much greater visibility for the drivers, saving lives of people who walk and cycle.

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

When you think Mexico, think biofuels (not just tequila). That's the message of OriginOil, a Los Angeles, California, company that's been contracted by the Mexican government to produce 1 percent of the

An interesting design concept that envisions humans becoming semi-photosynthetic thanks to a symbiotic relationship with algae.

This one of a kind structure combines architecture, technology, algae farming and real-time data, and will dynamically respond to environmental factors like weather and movements of people.

Instead of using a conventional polyurethane core, this sustainable surfboard starts with an algae-based foam blank.

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 UK-based renewable energy company Ecotricity recently won an award from the renewable energy agency for South West England for its development of three giant wind turbines at the industrial Avonmouth Docks site on the outskirts of Bristol (which we

Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art

The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that.

It was a sad day last year when intense lobbying efforts in Congress won out, and a ban on BPA in children's products was blocked. But it seems that China and Malaysia have beaten us to the punch. According to Green Biz, China and

A new study from the University of Illinois shows how chemical exposure early in life can alter stem cells and cause disease.

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

Artist/inventor Michael Jantzen's new concept for a Solar Winds Desert Power Plant envisions a large public gathering place, inspired by the shape of a flowering plant, to be located in a public park in a hot, dry climate.

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

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

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

Our photo of the day proves that size doesn't matter.

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

This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at

Carbon offsets have traditionally gone to technological improvements or reforestation. One group is teaching a different way of cooking. And it's using offset funds for the training.

Designed to capture and maximize the flows of sunlight, water and air, this prefabricated home feels modern, light and spacious.

Although somewhat symbolic, the new legislation coincides with the 2040 end of gas and diesel vehicle sales.

An alarming case study in the North Atlantic bolsters Greenpeace's call for a Global Ocean Treaty.

Our brains can't handle it.

Voting with your wallet has its time and place, but sometimes it's best just to leave the wallet at home.

This might be a model for how to live lightly in a circular economy.

If the goal is to reduce meat consumption, then why not make it more expensive?

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

There's a , and now trees in Central Asia have theirs as well. The

Photo credit: Abhijit Tembhekar via Flickr/Creative Commonsdigg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/scientists-develop-rot-proof-apple-stays-fresh-four-months.php';Scientists in Australia have developed an apple that won't rot. Or, won't rot

From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and