UK supermarket Tesco says it will ban products with excessive packaging
The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.
UK supermarket trials package-free groceries
Waitrose wants to see how serious shoppers are about bringing their own containers.
Is plastic a 'necessary evil' in our food system?
Perhaps yes, if our food system stays the way it is, but maybe that's what we should be challenging.
31 outside-the-box tips to ditch plastic
TreeHugger and Elephant Journal have teamed up to share 31 creative tips for skipping plastic, one for each day of July.
Super-yacht is powered by liquid hydrogen. How "eco" is that?
In two words: It's not.
Next transportation mode ripe for revolution: e-boats
Templar Marine introduces a Torqeedo powered dayboat that is a thing of beauty.
Greta Thunberg will cross the Atlantic by sailboat
It solves the young activist's dilemma of wanting to attend two U.N. climate change summits without relying on fossil fuels.
Residents of Mallorca want cruise ships to go away
The 'mega cruises' are harming the environment, the island's aesthetic appeal, and local quality of life.
A canoe trip is the epitome of slow travel
"There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." (Kenneth Grahame)
Beau Lake introduces an all-electric wood-topped instant classic runabout
Load up the Krug and the caviar and go for a spin.
We are about to get buried in garbage
Thanks to COVID-19 we are generating a lot more of it, and nobody wants to touch it. Time to try and go zero waste.
Vinyl: the plastic found in (almost) everything
What is vinyl? Let's explore how this ubiquitous and versatile plastic is made, what its uses are, and all of its safety concerns.
How plastics add to the climate crisis
They are basically solid fossil fuels, putting out as much as 6 kg of CO2 for every kg of plastic.
How I gave up plastic bottles for shampoo, dish soap, and rinse aid
I tasked myself with buying no plastic bottles for the year; here's how it's going so far.
There's no such thing as a styrofoam cup
And you have never used a styrofoam plate or take-out box.
Coke's UK head of sustainability says we don't have a packaging problem, we have a waste and litter problem
This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.
France begins radical plan to phase out single-use plastic
The French government has set a goal of eliminating all single-use plastics by 2040. Phase one has begun.
No plastic 2020: The reason I am giving up all plastic bottles
I don't buy many plastic bottles, but the ones that I do will take some creative workarounds to avoid.
How our thinking changed in 2019: recycling and plastics
We are now prisoners of the petrochemical industry.
6 mega-trends that marked the past decade
These are the ones that also had a green slant to them, making them special to TreeHugger's heart.
It's time to ignore Instagram's portrayal of zero waste
Too much DIY, not enough realism. Let's just do our best.
8 tools for successful bread-making
These will make your task easier, more efficient, and altogether more pleasant.
Man's $15K tiny house has DIY elevator bed & heated ceiling (Video)
This young man's mortgage-free home includes an interesting self-built version of the rare species known as the heated ceiling.
10 ways to reject capitalism in your personal life
Take subversive action in small ways.
Build your own bike at the Bamboo Bicycle Club
It's a miracle of sorts, transforming a pile of sticks into a traveling machine.
Streamlined bamboo DIY kits make converting a van a breeze
These high-end kits make converting a van into a home-on-wheels an easier proposition.
7 natural ingredients to exfoliate your skin
As plastic microbead bans take effect, you'll need to find alternative ways to give your skin a good scrubbing.
Make your own coconut rose sugar scrub
Or, how to get glowing skin with just a few simple ingredients.
8 homemade salt and sugar body scrubs
Turn your bathroom into a spa with an exfoliating DIY body scrub. Here are 8 homemade scrubs made with ingredients already in your kitchen.
Homemade pasta is cheap, easy and delicious
Or, how to make a super special meal with just a few ingredients.
It's wood. It's Passive House. It's the "Goldilocks density."
Boston is getting a "CLT Cellular Passive House Demonstration Project" that pushes every TreeHugger button.
Opus Mind crafts minimalist bags entirely from recycled leather
These bags are built to last, both in terms of usability and style.
'The Game Changers' documentary challenges assumptions about meat, protein and strength
It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.
Scientists find secret 'supercolony' of 1.5 million penguins
The 9-mile long archipelago has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.
Extraordinary lives of emperor penguins revealed in new book
Award-winning photographer Sue Flood braved the extremes to bring us this marvelous new book, Emperor: The Perfect Penguin.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke releases song to help Antarctica (video)
In support of Greenpeace's Antarctic campaign, this may be the prettiest video I've ever watched – and the cause couldn't be more important.
Listen to the beautifully eerie singing of an Antarctic ice shelf
Wind on the snow dunes of the Ross Ice Shelf causes a near-constant hum that is as beautiful as it is haunting.
Inquisitive Emperor penguins star in delightful selfie (video)
Australian Antarctic Division captures a vision of curious penguins ready for their close-up.
Snap, crackle, pop: Melting glaciers sound like Rice Krispies
Along with her large-scale drawings, artist Zaria Forman has recorded the eerie song of a warming planet.
Extraordinary photos from an Antarctic expedition
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on a 3-month Antarctic expedition, supporting an international proposal for the world’s largest protected area.
March of the Penguins takes over cities worldwide
A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.
The mystery of Blood Falls finally solved
The source of Antarctica's eerie blood red falls has baffled scientists for more than a century; now new secrets have been revealed.
Photos of icebergs reveal their majestic beauty
Plus a bounty of facts about these freewheeling islands of ice.
105 Years Ago Today: Roald Amundsen Stands On The South Pole
Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.
Key glacier in Antarctica is cracking from the inside out
New discovery points to troubling signs for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which would prove catastrophic.
The winner of the 2016 Penguin Election is…
... the Emperor Penguin! It vows to call for marine reserves in Antarctica to protect its imperilled species.
Ozone hole could close by mid-century
Proving once again that mankind can reverse the effects of our mistakes if we just take firm and fast action
Climate change could reduce Adélie penguin populations
Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.