Whooping It Up! Cranes Return to the East
For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall.
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Rescued Baby Possum's Favorite Nurse? A Stuffed Kangaroo (Here's Why)
This stuffed kangaroo may not be her real mama, but it's a pretty great surrogate for this baby possum rescued by an Australian wildlife group.
Even Oil And Coal CEOs Want Climate Action This Year, and Sign Petition
Oil and mining companies have signed on to support a global agreement being worked out by almost 200 nations at the Climate Conference in Paris.
China Makes Jaw-Dropping Cuts to Carbon Emissions in 2015 Equal to UK's Total Output
China is setting a world record by already reducing its CO2 emissions by an amount equal to what the entire United Kingdom produced in that same period.
Malala is Inspiration for Her Mother To Go Back To School
Malala Yousafzai has inspired millions of women and girls to stand up for their right to an education. Her mother turned out to be one of them
5-Hour Energy Inventor to Bring Free Energy to the Poor, Donate Billions
The billionaire inventor of the energy drink is spending his fortune on the poor, and a pedal-powered generator to make free electricity.
Moscow; A Happy Place to Visit
Moscow is now a place where even old guard Communists are laughing in the streets. Where once there were dismal shops with bare shelves, there are now elegant hotels and chic boutiques. Shoppers stooped with packages find bargains in a vast underground shopping mall. The financial crash of ‘98 is a thing of the past.
Europe's Last Dictator Toppled
For the first time in history the Serbian people have a president chosen by themselves in free elections. Vojislav Kostunica, 56, defeated Slobodan Milosevic by a wide margin and, despite Milosevic's attempts to circumvent the election results, was sworn in as president on September 30, 2000.
38 Year-old First to Ski Down Mt. Everest Without Stopping
Davo Karnicar, of Slovenia, became the first person ever to make an uninterrupted ski descent from the top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest (29,035 ft).
Oyster Tide is Turning
In a rare show of consensus, scientists, fishermen, environmentalists and area residents are joining together to restore the Chesapeake Bay's historic shellfish bars, or reefs, where oysters thrive.
Emotional Reunions for Koreans after 50 years
Emotions ran high this week at Seoul's Convention Center in South Korea as 100 Korean families from both sides of the border were reunited for the first time in half a century following the historic June agreement to work toward better relations between the two Koreas.
Help for Hot Spots
A $150 million global fund has been launched to provide protection for environmental “hot spots†that contain the most dense array of plant and animal biodiversity around the planet.
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