A Congo Republic rain forest full of rare animals and trees, one of the most pristine left in Africa, will be protected from all logging thanks to the voluntary actions of a timber company to forfeit its harvesting rights.
For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall.
Duane James, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was driving past the parking lot of a drugstore on May 19, 2000, when he saw a woman being robbed and he decided to intervene although the man weilded a knife.
Everyone has a song playing in their head. The Ho Hum band asked people on the street to hum a tune so they can try to guess the song and play along.
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.
Arizona State University's business school is giving each one of next year's entering MBA candidates a full scholarship worth up to $90,000 each.
This device doesn't just suck soot out of the air-it repurposes the stuff as printer toner.
People who volunteer to work in this grocery store get discounts on the food they buy and a sense of self-esteem.
A Columbia University senior has created one of New York's hottest restaurants– from his dormitory.
A teenage backpacker hiking through Nepal asked her parents to send her savings of $5000 so she could create a home and school for hundreds of needy children.
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 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.
A man who is helping his fellow veterans "walk off the war" -paying for expenses and equipment on long hikes - is up for a $100,000 Hero prize.
Everything was going swimmingly at the Navy Marine Mammal Program when all of a sudden, one of the supervisors was being impersonated... by a beluga whale.
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
The billionaire inventor of the energy drink is spending his fortune on the poor, and a pedal-powered generator to make free electricity.
Kimberly Springer, a near-stranger in North Carolina was donating a part of her liver to an infant with a rare liver disease whose last hope was a transplant.
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.
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.
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).