Limits would save lives and significantly reduce carbon emissions, but let's keep our priorities straight.

Yes, they seem tacky and don't make your house smell like a coniferous forest but they also won't dry up and shed their needles all over the place

Steven M. Johnson beat the GrubHub by 25 years.

Demand for lithium is growing very rapidly thanks to portable electronics and electric vehicles. What if we could get a lot of lithium cheaply, without building new mines?

This is Paris' largest mural, made with hand-folded origami paper birds and a bit of spraypaint.

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

Jason Aramburu is trying to revolutionize how we garden by expanding the production of "Black Revolution" biochar, a soil-less growing medium made from farm waste.

Now in its sixth day, the forest fire threatens critical habitats and precious water sources.

The data center will be the largest in the world.

Air quality in San Francisco is the worst in the world right now.

Because bridges are for people.

Yesterday TreeHugger asked whether the Monobloc was the most famous plastic chair in the world. Now, sadly, the death has been announced of the creator of another very famous plastic chair.

The big day is over and it's time to think about getting rid of the tree. If you've got a sturdy one and want a piece of furniture, here's an idea.

What if we declared climate change a crisis and put some serious resources to this type of initiative?

Cooling servers requires a lot of energy, so why not locate them somewhere that is always cold?

It's a big step forward for the high-tech timber industry.

It's the fastest (and most fun) way to fill your house with a variety of delicious baked goods.

Modifications to the $3.5bn project have been made to address environmental concerns, but it may not deflect criticism.

The first large-scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013. The New

A new study found men think society expects them to conform to stereotypes ... but how right are they?

It's got all three: low transportation energy, low embodied carbon, low operating energy.

Our well-coiffed photo of the day comes from the rain forest of Ecuador.

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

Artists installed a grass carpet through a French town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its arts and nature trail programs.

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?

This will mark a significant scaling of electrified transportation—including trucks and buses too.

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

When I wrote about Robert Llewellyn's solar car charging in rainy England, commenters noted that solar at home is unlikely to benefit most car drivers, as they will typically charge overnight. Situations will obviously vary

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.

The drought was so bad it made our region a little lighter.

These 7 sea-loving grandmothers are helping research an elusive venomous snake population.

Waugh Thistleton Architects demonstrate how we should be building for a low carbon future.

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

A new study says it is, and we speak to one of the authors.

British retailers brace for "unbelievably bad" profits this year. Can climate change be blamed?

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has asked pilots to avoid flying too close to a group of about 35,000 walrus gathered on an Alaskan beach.

The wonderful world of birds, painted in life size and all together on a huge 2,500-square-foot wall.

Great gift ideas from DesignMarketo, a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions. Our favourite: "Save Fish, Eat Chips" t-shirts!

Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass

Learn how to master the mashed potato with a few simple tweaks.

This may be the perfect way to serve sweet potatoes; it's easy, delicious, and beautiful to behold.