Canines have a sense of smell 1,000 times better than humans. Now, Milwaukee Riverkeepers has partnered with Environmental Canine Services to sniff and test over 50 manholes around Milwaukee. If the dogs hit on a spot, underground pipes are tested and water samples sent to the Great Lakes Water Institute for analysis.
While bulldozers clear land to create a flood basin, Barb Agnew races to collect monarch eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves, and brings them to an enclosure in the back of her flower shop.
Buoyed by tougher environmental regulations and $5 billion in improvements, the Milwaukee River is cleaner and more valuable economically and ecologically than at any point in the past 100 years.
The Home Gr/own initiative is turning Milwaukee's thousands of vacant lots and idled citizens into a source of food and jobs in food production, processing, and distribution.
In Milwaukee, there's an experiment underway to set at-risk boys on the right path. They're offered pay for doing neighborhood chores and they receive guidance from older men in the community.
The first E85 ethanol station opened in Miami as an alternative to gasoline and a way to fuel the 11,000 ethanol-capable (Flex-Fuel) vehicles in the region. (Video)
Miami Heat basketball star, Dwyane Wade, who is the leading NBA scorer, heard the plight of a South Florida woman whose nephew accidentally burned down her home—and ruined all the family's possessions... So he helped the family move into a new home, just in time for Christmas, giving Dawn Smith the keys to a new house on Wednesday,
After selling a majority stake in his Miami bank, Leonard Abess Jr. took $60 million of the proceeds and gave it to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks, everyone on the payroll. All 399 workers on the staff received bonuses, and he even tracked down 72 former employees. The bonuses -- based on years of service -- amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, and in some cases, more than $100,000.
Homeless people have allowed an innovative program to lift them off the streets and place them in a community coop farm growing organic fruits and vegetables.
Children in rural Mali are being given the opportunity to develop their computer skills. Computer technology has arrived in one of Mali's rural villages providing children with access to laptops for the first time. The pilot program was launched in November, thanks to the charity, One Laptop Per Child.
Preservationists guarding Timbuktu's centuries-old artifacts said that in a large-scale rescue operation early last year, shortly before Islamist militants seized control of the city, thousands of manuscripts were hauled out of the Ahmed Baba Institute to a safe house elsewhere.
Rebel groups from northern Mali have agreed to end hostilities and present a united front ahead of negotiations with the Malian government that begin in Algiers next week.
Children in Chicago public schools are being riled up to read in a learning program that involves daily dog visits to their classroom.
In response to pressure from the US movie industry which loses 6 billion dollars per year from pirated sales of DVDs, Malaysia has launched a squad of DVD-sniffing dogs to help root out large caches of illegal disks.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pledged Friday not to indiscriminately approve logging licences that threaten endangered species and tribal communities.
Seven friends in Malaysia who are not formally organized in any way have managed to collect more than 200 tons of donations for the flood victims in Terengganu, Kelantan and Pahang, receiving overwhelming support, even from a guy with a helicopter to transport the goods.
The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
Six months ago, political reporter and former legislative director Lawrence O'Donell shared his experience of delivering 30 desks to a children's classroom in Africa with viewers of his MSNBC show The Last Word. Inspired by the video of Malawi kids sitting on dirt floors, donations poured in, more than 2.3 million dollars, allowing him to deliver an incredible 46,000 desks -- enough for every child in all four districts targeted.
Rachel O'Neill fell in love with the sweeping vistas of Malawi, Africa, but especially with the little girls, whose only clothing were the thread-bare dresses on their backs. Her original idea was to get a church group to sew dresses for her to bring back for the children. Eventually, word spread and dresses were sent from all fifty states, so many that it took teams of volunteers to sort them,
"The government of Madagascar has established 15 new conservation areas encompassing a total of 2.65 million acres (about a million hectares) on the East African island famed for its unique wildlife, (but) which traditionally has had a poor conservation record." nat'l geo