Cactus leather can be used for handbags, shoes, furniture, and more. We look at its environmental impact and how it compares to cotton and leather.

A Brief History of Zoos Humans have kept wild animals for thousands of years. The first efforts to keep wild animals for non-utilitarian uses began about 2,500 BCE, when rulers in Mesopotamia ...

Treehugger / Sanja Kostic To get the most out of exfoliation, you need to know your skin type. Your skin is unique and will respond well to some exfoliants and poorly to others. Skin types are ...

Palm oil is cheap and comes from a highly efficient oil palm crop that produces generous yields, year-round, with relatively little land. Yet, it can be horribly unsustainable. Demand for the ...

Alicia is a writer, photographer, and social entrepreneur specializing in sustainable travel, wildlife and nature conservation, and environmentally friendly agriculture and eating. She holds an M ...

Marcus V. Bellizzi / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 This tree, an example of the species Cariniana legalis named Patriarca da Floresta in Brazil, is estimated to be over 2,000 years old. The ...

Gerald Corsi / Getty Images The wingspan of a wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) measures up to 12 feet across, which makes it the largest extant bird on Earth in terms of wingspan. This helps ...

Textiles are recyclable. Here's some important info on how to recycle your old clothes, sheets, towels, and more—plus, smart and eco-friendly ways to repurpose them.

Red pandas are endangered with their numbers decreasing. The World Wildlife Fund estimates there are fewer than 10,000 left in the wild.

When you drive an electric vehicle for the first time, your car might not even have a gear lever or gear stick allowing you to shift gears. Step on the accelerator (not the “gas pedal”), and ...

Identifying the Different Cottonwoods The three cottonwood subspecies found in the U.S. and Canada are similar in some ways—such as their tendency to grow tall—and different in others, like ...

He continued: "Scientific life-cycle energy analyses have repeatedly found that the energy used in the operation and maintenance of buildings dwarf the so-called 'embodied' energy of the materials ...