The Gene-Z app works with Apple and Android and can detect plant diseases in 10-30 minutes.

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just

We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

Look Ma! No heatsink!

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

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

Scientists say this is the only way to feed 10 billion people without causing catastrophic damage to the planet.

Everybody knows that change is happening, but thanks to the fossil fuel economy, we are all having such a good time.

At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new

Researchers conducted the largest controlled study yet of the effects of energy drinks on the heart and blood pressure in healthy adults.

Much of the world eats the same thing every day. Why are we so preoccupied with variety?

How can we be moving away from fossil fuels and spending billions on building pipes for them at the same time?

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?

And you have never used a styrofoam plate or take-out box.

Made by NPR, it explains what's recyclable, what becomes trash, and why.

Some pretty smart designers, builders and consultants have a pretty good idea for a sensible building standard.

How do you design a green, sustainable and healthy kitchen?

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

Where does the FDA stand on a BPA ban?

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

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

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

A cluttered apartment room becomes a modern place to sleep and play for three siblings.

Chairs take up a lot of space, but not in this line of space-saving furniture.

The 2019 rating by EWG finds that most sunscreens contain sketchy ingredients and/or don't offer adequate protection.

Some areas have more resources than others, so do your best to work with what you have.

I went to Costa Rica for surf camp at the world's most sustainable surf school – it was amazing.

Someone recently told me it suggests indigenous peoples are primitive.

The LightCycle follows our circadian rhythms via your phone and GPS.

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a

The Toronto Star's list is useful but incomplete.

The diet appears to act on gut bacteria in a way that helps hinder physical frailty and reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find.

... in the place where people understand the risks of living in an anti-globalist, post-fact era

They say these are about celebrating the best contemporary architecture. But what does that mean today?

Despite Natura's seemingly excellent and forward-thinking business model, their list of ingredients is surprisingly awful and toxic, which calls into question the B Corp certification standards.

Bravo to this Brazilian guy for showing how it's done.

While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

There are huge upfront carbon emissions from building new housing; a better approach is to be smarter about what we have.

Everybody is hopping on the hydrogen train, but it's being driven by natural gas.

Even a full day later, a one-hour shift in the clock is hard to adjust to.

While in the midst of a global pandemic, we can't forget the ongoing climate crisis. Here's how you can participate in Earth Day 2020.

We do a little destructive testing and have a good breakfast.

'These fires are a situation that humanity cannot tolerate.' – Carlos Durigan, WCS Brazil

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.

Don't forget to spend some time in nature! Let the 2019 US fall foliage forecast help.

For the Sunday, December 8 issue, a centerspread ad has been designed as a piece of planet-friendly wrapping paper.