Sometimes heavy rain didn't seem to dampen anyone's spirits or limit turnout out at the International Day of Climate Action in Times Square. And somehow standing in the middle (more...)
Trucker's Jamboree, Walcott, Iowa, USA, 2003. In "Oil," Edward Burtynsky's latest series of landscape photographs, there's nary a drop of the black stuff to be found. Yet he still (more...)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains mired in violence in significant part because of the international demand for electronic (more...)
Kerala's female population is often considered to be better off than most women in India, with female literacy at 87 per cent – compared with the 29 per cent (more...)
Despite a rash of closures due to shrinking demand and the global credit crisis, China's factories remain plentiful and packed full of people paid minimal wages to assemble everything (more...)
Considering that pretty much everything that TreeHugger covers could be written about from the standpoint of Business or Politics, the hardest part about narrowing down who should be given (more...)
In the current economic crisis, a lot of money is being spent on roads and bridges. This is a good thing if it gets people working, but perhaps it (more...)
As you've probably heard, there's a lot of green going on in that $787 billion stimulus bill recently signed into law. There's money for renewable energy research, funding for (more...)
The stimulus bill has finally been passed and signed into law—and now it's time to help put the thing into action. Which shouldn't be tough to do: tucked into (more...)