Ecuador has become the first nation in the world to grant constitutional rights to the natural environment. On Sept. 28, the country voted for a new constitution that gives many of the same rights to rivers, forests, plants and animals as it does to people.
The Galapagos Islands have been removed from the UNESCO list of legacy sites around the globe under threat by environmental or human assault.
The Netherlands is closing eight prisons due to a decline in crime that has left many cells empty. The Dutch ministry's research department expects the decline to continue.
A Dutch study has found that offshore wind turbines have hardly any negative effects on wildlife, and may even benefit animals living beneath the waves.
After years of researching crops that could be grown with the brackish water of the Netherlands, a Dutch team is poised to launch their pioneering potatoes, which are grown with sea water.
Paving stones turn toxic gas into harmless dust, cleaning up 42% of air pollution from the cars driving over them.
Winter journeys are made safer and more attractive for Dutch cyclists. Reflective crystals make lines in the road visible without electric lights, while other roads are getting underground geothermal heating for natural de-icing.
A 63-year-old Dutch man was surprised but worried when he awoke Thursday morning to find a family of nine swans drinking from the ditch. A local draught had dried up most of the water in his yard so Jos Maas decided to do more. Believing them to be lost, he asked them to follow as he walked toward the road. Father, mother and seven chicks waddled after him.
In November, more than 300 LED lights were illuminated by a Dutch company that makes electricity from harnessing the power of living plants. This was the first commercial installation for Plant-e, a company that also sells mobile chargers, and rooftop electricity modules fueled by the byproduct of photosynthesis in plants.
Tired of the beautiful river view along his route to work spoiled by mounting trash, a man decided to pick up litter on his daily commute, and made a huge difference.
For the sixth year in a row the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area will close its roads from dusk til dawn to protect the wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and spring peepers who swarm for the river in an ancestral urge to search for mates.
Cuba has thrown a lifeline to the Caribbean's endangered and critically endangered marine turtles with a government resolution ending all harvesting of marine turtles. Such a resolution, ending Cuba's long standing harvest of 500 critically endangered hawksbill turtles a year, has been sought by conservationists for more than a decade. It will benefit turtles hatching […]
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