'Fantastic Grandmas' Have Been Spending Retirement Photographing Venomous Sea Snakes for Science
For 3 years, these golden gals have been embarking on volunteer sea snake research expeditions-and their work has made a great difference to science.
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Teen Spent Saturday Registering People to Vote As They Waited in Line to Try New Popeyes Sandwich
With people vying to try the new Popeyes chicken sandwich, a high school senior took advantage of the long lines by registering customers as voters.
Leonardo DiCaprio Launches $5 Million Emergency Fund to Help Combat Amazon Rainforest Fires
The Oscar award-winning actor is not the only one helping to combat the Amazon rainforest fires, either.
City Gets First Ever 'Turtle Crossing' Signs After Concerned Second Grader Writes Letter to the Mayor
This 8-year-old boy has helped to protect dozens of turtles in his community after he wrote a letter to the mayor asking for the town to take action.
Two Little Girls Have a Petition and Powerful Video for McDonald's-It May Signal the End of Wasteful Plastic Toys
Since these determined young activists started campaigning for the end of free plastic toys in kids meals, their mission has gotten a massive response.
Rather Than Pay $150K in Ransom, Radiohead Publishes Stolen Music and Donates Sales to Environmental Group
Instead of forking over $150,000 to a hacker who stole their unreleased content, Radiohead is selling the album on Bandcamp and donating the proceeds.
After Nuns and Millennials Discover They're 'Soul Mates', They Work and Live Together to Change the World
Catholic women and spiritually-oriented millennials from all over the US are looking to each other as an unlikely new source of community and inspiration.
Determined Teen Siblings Who've Turned 15,000 Pounds of Food Waste into Compost Awarded Thousands to Continue
This dynamic young duo has saved thousands of pounds of food waste from ending up in landfills – and soon they'll be saving even more.
After Five-Year Campaign, Woman Successfully Rallies a Nation to Protect 763,000 Square Miles of Ocean
Despite how Polynesian culture may have depended on commercial fishing, this woman successfully rallied a nation to protect their ocean waters.
On Her 86th Birthday, Check Out the Jane Goodall Documentary Trailer We Can All Use Right Now: 'The Hope'
The Nat Geo trailer for Jane Goodall's new documentary "The Hope" is a message of encouragement for people around the world.
7-Year-Old Gathers 70K Signatures On Her Petition to Make Crayola's Coloring Pens Recyclable
Despite how the company tried to placate Jessie by saying they would consider her proposal, the young eco-warrior is not giving up that easily.
Hope on Horizon for Escaped 'Russian Spy Whale' After Video of Its Rugby Skills Goes Viral
Since this video of Hvaldimir the beluga whale went viral last week, people are now rallying to help relocate the lonely cetacean to safer waters.
107 Teens Awarded for Launching Their Own Projects to Save Oceans From Plastic Pollution
More than 250 teenagers participated in the program by launching their own unique initiative to combat plastic waste in the oceans. Here are the winners.
Black Protestor is a Hero After Carrying Injured White Counter-Protestor to Safety: 'It's not black vs white'
Patrick Hutchinson is being hailed as a hero across the political spectrum after he rescued an injured counter-protestor at a BLM rally in London.
Fed Up by Complex Waste Rules, Couple Built Their Own Free 'Recycling Center' in Their Driveway
Since the couple built their little DIY recycling station last month, they have saved almost 2,000 pounds of waste from ending up in a landfill.
Indigenous Woman Wins Goldman Environmental Prize for Protecting 500,000 Acres of Amazon Rainforest
Indigenous Amazon leader Nemonte Nenquimo won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her organizing work to save Ecuador's rainforests.
People Power Wins: Alberta Reverses Course on Coal Mining Atop Rocky Mountains
After immense backlash, Alberta officials have reinstituted the 1976 coal mining regulation laws that were silently repealed some months ago.
Occupy Wall Street Activists Pay Off $15 Million of Americans' Personal Debt
In one year, a group of Occupy Wall Street activists has managed to buy almost $15 million of Americans' personal debt helping them pay off their outstanding credit. Under the name, Rolling Jubilee, the Occupy activists purchase anonymous debt cheaply from banks and then abolish it, freeing individuals from their bills.
Occupy Wall Street Folks Are Buying and Abolishing Millions of Dollars of Debt for the 99 Percent
The Occupy Wall Street movement, forever angry about government bail-outs for big banks, finally figured out a way to issue their own bail-outs -- this time, for the little guy. A group called Strike Debt launched a campaign last night, called Rolling Jubilee, that has already raised more than a quarter million dollars to buy up the debt owed by faceless Americans and cancel it, while just paying pennies on the dollar for the privilege. They call it, a bailout by the people, for the people.
How a Former Teacher Beat the Mining Industry and Saved the Rare Snow Leopards
This 49-year-old has proved herself to be a champion for vulnerable big cat populations in a region dominated by big mining companies.
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