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

This year, Gandhi's birthday will be marked by a national crackdown on six specific plastic items.

It's time we stopped greenwashing plastic alternatives and realized they do more harm than good.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.

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

A scientific assessment has confirmed enormous amounts of waste and definite harm to wildlife.

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.

The iconic English office pod can be used for all kinds of things.

It's another national monument established by Obama and threatened by Trump.

The Japanese pursuit of shinrin-yoku uses trees and nature to heal oneself – here's how you can do it even in a park.

Cigarette filters are a scam and are a leading source of plastic pollution worldwide, say experts.

Environment minister called waste importers 'traitors' who don't care about the country's long-term sustainability.

No longer will hunters be able to buy the right to kill this majestic apex predator.

When you watch the video do you see a triumph of nature or the beady eyes of a predator?

What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins?

Schools are also fundraising to supply face masks for children.

This experiment may kickstart a new age of microorganism technology.

Concerns over air pollution have led city officials to crack down on these controversial vehicles.

Move over royal baby, there's an infant two-toed sloth in town.

A study shows that many want to make better decisions, but don't know how.

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.

EnerGaia, a Thai startup, is using the rooftop of a Bangkok hotel to harvest spirulina. Is this the new edible rockstar of urban farming?

The company that makes "shoes for people who don't want to wear them" is introducing a new model of adventure shoe constructed with EVA foam made from algae biomass.

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida

Bristol, UK, just keeps on popping up on Treehugger. Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn’t end there. It’s also

We like Ecotricity, the UK-based green energy company that is busy planning and erecting urban wind turbines across the country. We’ve written about their partnership with Popeye, we’ve brought news of their collaborations with Lotus and Ben and

Whenever we've discussed Triodos Bank, the European sustainability-oriented savings bank with branches in the UK, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium, we've always been impressed at the number of customers who attend

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs

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.

This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you

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

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.

Where does the FDA stand on a BPA ban?

It seems that the only people who benefit from this rule change are the members of the American Chemistry Council who make BPA.

From one problem to the next...

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,

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

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and

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

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.

"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.

Thanks to COVID-19, a lot more than previously thought.

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 the Essex countryside.

Our photo of the day is a lesson in singing and building.

Pigeons sure, but urban eagles and city vultures? A beautifully illustrated new book, Urban Aviary, spills their secrets.

Here's what to know about America's favorite bird of prey.

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