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Largest Solar Array by an Electric Cooperative to be Installed in New Mexico
Image via: PowerTech - solar farm in Bavaria Colfax County to be exact, and the array will include over 500,000 photovoltaic panels when it is finally operational and produce 30MW of solar...
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Rainforests: Lungs AND Heart of the Planet?
Images via: Getty Images New Scientists reports this month a possibly controversial finding that not only are rainforests giant carbon sinks of the planet (lungs), but they may also be responsible for...
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Disneynature launches "Earth" on Earth Day
Considering the huge promo campaign surrounding Earth, the movie, the first film release from Disneynature, a new brand from Mickey’s company, most everybody knows that the
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Top Sony Prize for Photos of the Desert Southwest
A series of abstract images of threatened Southwest desert landscapes by an American artist who powers his studio with solar panels took the top prize last month in the Sony World Photography Awards, an
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A Princess for the Planet: Morocco's Main Green Gal
Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco doffs her tiara to help maintain some green space. Photo via Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. Prince Charles isn't the world's only royal...
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Global Warming Makes Syrian Villages Ghost Towns
Residents of sinking tropical islands and flooding Alaskan villages are the dramatic examples of global-warming refugees that come most readily to mind. But a dearth of water can be just as dangerous...
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Turkmenistan Starts Building New Desert Sea: Glorious Deed or Disaster...
The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have
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Could Bacteria-Filled Balloons Stop the Spread of the Sahara? Architect...
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...
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Bustan Builds a Model of Desert Sustainability
After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan, an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to
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Arizona Art Museum Seeks to Define Sustainability
From a painter's satirical take on 1950s images of a bucolic world to
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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show
At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical
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Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food
Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels...
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Africa's Great Green Wall Hopes to Stop the Spreading Sahara - If It Ever...
It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders...
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Desert-Dwelling Animals in Strange and Stunning Photos
Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive...
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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms
Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region
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The Global Battle to Conserve and Rebuild Soil
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...
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Footballs To Be Made from Feral Camel Leather
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...
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The Man Who Stopped the Desert - How One Man Saved the Soil (Video)
From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a...
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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass
Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native
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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project
The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of
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