Though you can find peacocks fanning their fancy plumage in parks, farms, and zoos all over the world, these birds are native to Asia. They originated in India, where they are symbols of the Hindu ...

Melissa Breyer is Treehugger’s former senior editorial director. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine, and ...

While animals like the cheetah and peregrine falcon show off their graceful speed, the 8 slowest animals in the world are ...

See the pros and cons of everything from recycling to zero-waste – and find tips to reduce the trash and plastic that goes in landfills and incinerators.

Find what you need to know about backyard chickens, beehives, rooftop gardens, and everything else for producing food at home.

David has 10 years of experience in gardening, 5 years working in a greenhouse, and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. David Kuchta is a historian, author ...

Amber has written for Dotdash Meredith since 2017. Her work has appeared on sites including TripSavvy, 10Best.com, and TravelPulse.com. Amber holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats ...

They're purple, hairy, and too tough for most predators to mess with. Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on ...

Do you enjoy notes of body odor and dirty socks with hints of sour laundry and barnyard with your comestibles? If so, this is the list for you. First, let's explore why some cheeses stink.

Lloyd Alter has been an architect, real estate developer, and prefab entrepreneur. He now teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson School of Interior Design. Alter has been writing for Treehugger ...