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Photo via Eggs&Beer Mountain pine beetles have been a problem for many years, especially the last decade. Warming temperatures have helped the destructive insect move into new territories. Their booming numbers and rapid spread have meant death for large patches of forests. Now NASA satellites have been able to detest these masses of forests killed [...]

Image credit: The Journey TV From this awesome tour of a permaculture allotment, to residents battling to keep their gardens, Britain’s ‘allotment’ culture has featured regularly on TreeHugger. And not without good reason. These small plots of land, rented from local government for an affordable fee, are visible in almost every town and city across [...]

Armed only with his gentle nature and uncommonly brave spirit, zoologist and animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson has managed to make some pretty wild frie… Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

Image: From video supplied by Dane Havard, via Daily Motion This gives the term “bear hug” a whole new meaning. You will appreciate the frightened embrace mama bear gives her young one after watching this video of a mother bear rescuing her cub from a fishing net, with the help of an Alaskan fisherman. When [...]

Photo via Daily Mail, credit SWNS Everyone loves to get their back scratched. And for cows hard at work in dairy farms, a little rub against the “cow wash” goes a long way for getting cleaner both cleaner and calmer. The swinging brush stimulates blood circulation and improves milk production, while also relaxing the cows [...]

The BP Gulf spill (or whatever we decide to call it) has already done plenty of damage to wildlife, the local economy, and people’s livelihoods. Images of oiled birds and turtles, crude-covered marshlands, and shuttered businesses are now sadly commonplace. But what about that which we can’t see so clearly? After all, people are still [...]

If you love bamboo as much as I do, just as a substance, forget about any specific green credentials it has, then check out this short video from Bamboo Revolution. It explains and documents in return for returning one of the original Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

Image credit: Transition Culture It’s so much easier to be against something than for something. In fact, I’d argue that is one of the central strategic challenges facing sustainability activists. How do we convert opposition against something—say, nasty oil spills for example—into advocacy for the alternatives&md… Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

An Incredible Adventure, Caught on Film When Dutchman Dick de Bruin accidentally dropped his waterproof video camera while scuba diving in Aruba, he must have figured he would never see it again–but he was wrong. Six months later, the camera was found on a beach in Florida, a thousand miles away containing an amazing video. [...]

Image credit: Peak Moment TV It’s been called creepy by some, but my obsession with pee and poop is not without good reason. (Hey, it got me on Lloyd’s Valentine’s Day list.) From peeing in public to the selective flush, how we deal with our bodily wastes on a Global scale has huge implications for [...]