An Indonesian couple that were last month reunited with their 14-year-old daughter who went missing in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit the northernmost province of Aceh have in recent days also found their missing son.
Rescuers used a huge nylon net to save a bear dangling over the edge of the 80-foot-high bridge, in the Sierra Nevada range near Donner Pass.
Near the junction of the New Jersey Turnpike and Interstate 80, not far from the conga line of traffic grinding toward New York City, lies a body of water that was once a garbage dump, a murky soup of stinking refuse and plastic bottles. But after a recent renaissance, that body of water, Overpeck Creek, and the new park abutting it have become a destination for rowers from New York City.
The city of Detroit and Bank of America have teamed up to solve three problems at once: By enticing cops to live in urban neighborhoods, offering them refurbished homes and low cost loans, houses standing empty will be inhabited, rather than vandalized, communities will feel more secure with law enforcement nearby, and urban property values and the city's tax base will be bolstered.
Only around 5 percent of the wetlands in western Lake Erie remain from the days before pollution and dam construction. Now, a five-year process is underway to restore one of the lake's largest coastal wetlands, thanks to the Nature Conservancy.
Hoping to persuade children not to make the same mistake he made, a reformed al-Qaida-linked terrorist has become a comic book sensation in a series that chronicles his transformation from villain to invaluable ally in the fight against terrorism.
The wayward emperor penguin that was found on a New Zealand beach June 20, far from his Antarctic feeding grounds and moved to the zoo after he became ill from eating sand that he likely mistook for snow, has since regained weight and been cleared to be returned to the wild.
Vodafone is helping reunite families with loved ones in a refugee camp in Democratic Republic of Congo by providing free phone calls. Thanks to the humanitarian effort, nine-year-old Nirere was able to speak to her mother for the first time since they were separated 15 months ago.
Women in a refugee camp for Internally Displaced Persons in North Darfur receive English classes conducted by volunteer teachers and facilitated by the UN / African Union peacekeepers (UNAMID).
As Europeans continue to open their hearts and doors to refugees pouring into the EU, the prime minister has stepped up to offer his own home as shelter.
The 6.5 million tires recalled by Bridgestone/ Firestone from Ford Explorers in August, 2000 are being put to good use by Waste Management, Inc.
Perhaps we can take a lesson from the innovative entrepreneurs of India when it comes to recycling plastics. Alka is the inventor of a process that clears our environment of plastic waste, creates a million jobs in waste management, adds useful, profitable bi-products, like fuel, to our economy and makes India a technology leader in taming plastics.
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