Sommerhusudlejning i Danmark er en dejlig afslappende måde at holde ferie på. Der findes sommerhuse til udlejning i hver enkelt del af Danmark. De fleste ligger langs Vesterhavet i Jylland samt på Nordsjælland. ...

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photo: Leo Freitas If you're looking to buy products using sustainably harvested timber from Brazil and it comes from the state of Pará, you may want to reconsider. Mongabay is reporting that a Brazilian federal prosecutor has launched an investigation into companies illegal harvesting wood from protected areas in the state and then passing it of...

Photo: Wikipedia, CC Something Must be Done The total world Rhino population is estimated at around 24,500 individuals (more details at the International Rhino Foundation). Rhino poaching is mostly driven by demand for rhino horn, which is thought to have some medicinal properties in some countries (I can't wait until they figure out that it's jus...

photo: Dianne Manson Just under 100 of New Zealand’s most endangered parrot, the kakapo remain but hopefully that number will increase thanks to the 26 hand-reared chicks that are returning to New Zealand. The baby chicks will spend six more weeks on a predator free island, Codfish Island living in an outdoor pen before returning to their natura...

There's plenty of room for cyclists on the roads outside Van. Photo by Bryce Edwards via Flickr. "You notice a flower blooming near the road [when] riding a bicycle, but you cannot see it driving a car," says Mustafa Sarı, the president of the Turkish Nature Watchers Society. Though cycling is not a common pastime in Turkey, the group is trying t...

100 plus trees grow on the Bronx Grand Concourse. All photos by Katie Holten 2009 Living sculptures that defy gravity, that’s how Yann Arthus-Bertrand describes trees in his inspiring environmental documentary Home, released on World Environment Day. Among the many benefits of trees, they slurp up CO2 and dish out O2, crumble into soil, prevent ...

We’ve previously mentioned innovative tent maker, NEMO Equipment,r for their recycled backpacking tent and bamboo tent poles. We also noted how they donated over 150 tents to Kashmiri earthquake victims. Now they are at it again with the donating thing. This time generously forking over $13,000 USD in backpacking and mountaineering tents to yout...

Photo from Gregory Koch Red wolves are one of the rarest mammals in North America. They are a mere 100 strong in their native habitat of North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. But with the help of the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) in South Salem, NY, the Canis rufus may grow in number…first in New York, and then in North...

Photo via stock.xchng by bouwm019 Should we be eating more beef in order to slow global warming? It sounds counterintuitive, but it may be so: Cattle could be part of the whole ecological equation to solving climate change and restoring healthy, bio-diverse ecosystems. I am a vegetarian, but I maintain there is a place for grass-fed beef on family...

Indian rhino in Kazaringa national park, Assam, India. Photo: Lip Kee Yap via flickr Asian demand for rhinoceros horn for medicinal use has driven poaching in Africa and Asia to a 15 year high, WWF reports. This is of course despite the fact that trade in rhino parts from any species is banned under international treaty. In some places it has gott...

Here is something that is 100% recycled, but doesn’t look it. ECOALF is the new fabric developed by the Spanish company fun&basics, made from recycled PET bottles. It is a high quality textile: flexible, tension resistant, long lasting, waterproof and lightweight. The first bags made from ECOALF are a toilet bag, a small bag, a cabin trolley...

Oh buoy! Could this ocean energy converter save coral reefs? Photo from SwellFuel With almost half the world's coral reefs threatened with extinction and the rapid decline in the oceans’ biodiversity, according to a recent report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), it’s going to take more than cloning reefs to save ...

This is neither a Honduran Emerald or Clos LaChance, but it is a hummingbird drinking nectar from a wine glass. Image via: HummingbirdsLiberty on Flickr.com It may not be organic or biodynamic, and it might not be saving the planet, but drinking Clos laChance endangered hummingbird series wine will (help to) save one hummingbird species a yea... ...

In red are counties that have one of the 2 Dengue mosquito vector species. Blue are are vulnerable areas. Image: NRDC That's Pretty Concrete and Scary Matthew recently wrote a post about the climate change induced expansion of the tropics and the consequences of it. One of the main ones is the Northward movement of certain tropical diseases. The N...

Cape Farewell Andes Expedition Members Measuring Carbon in Soil at Wayqecha Station. Image via Cape Farewell. We reported last year on TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's trip with Cape Farewell to the Arctic. This year you can feel like you're part of their latest expedition, an 18-day trek through the Andean Rainforest, thanks to Twitter and a help...

Artist Joyce van den Berg's vision for the former No Man's Land in Berlin includes walking paths, composting areas, and plenty of greenery. An area once called a "death strip" wouldn't seem to harbor much in the way of recreational potential, but when Dutch landscape artist Joyce van den Berg looks at the former No Man's Land that once separated E...

Image via: Ezeiza on Flickr.com Earlier this year the Six Flags Inc. is adding green throughout their 20 theme-park locations, but many are so behind the scenes that you may not have noticed. ... ...

photo: Ventura via flickr Current rates of deforestation in the Amazon will have markedly less impact on the number of plant species to likely go extinct by mid-century, new research shows. Rather than the 20-33% predicted by some studies scientists from Wake Forest University say that 5-9% of species are likely to be extinct, ...

Oil palm plantation in Indonesia, photo: Achmad Rabin Taim via flickr A bit more than a year ago, Lloyd wrote about how palm oil is in everything and since then more and more voices have detailed just how environmentally devastating the Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil trade has become. What's more, according to ...