Felix Finkbeiner is an environmental superstar and author of the book Tree by Tree who is at the helm of a global network of child activists whose aim is to mitigate climate change by reforesting the planet.
This fascinating carbon capture system could be a groundbreaking new tool in the fight against greenhouse gas pollution and climate change.
A new conservational campaign in the city of Atlanta could result in hundreds of high school graduates walking across the stage in recycled caps and gowns.
This sound expert is fighting to protect the quietest places in the world so that people can experience the sound of silence for generations to come.
The Giga Pearl may be the largest gemstone of its kind in the world – and it was given to Abraham Reyes after his family decided it didn't have any value.
The gem previously holding the world record for largest pearl has just been dwarfed by a $100 million stone hiding under the bed of a poor fisherman.
The former president's new 10-acre solar farm is expected to save hundreds of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Rwanda won an award for engineering a major reversal in the trend toward declining forests with its massive reforestation program promoting indigenous species and involving the local population. The US and Gambia also won awards for forest policies enacted.
A small bird thought to have been extinct and not seen in 73 years was overheard and recorded by scientists while surveying the grasslands of Myanmar.
On Thanksgiving Day 30 years ago, a whale in distress was freed from a heavy, dragging mass of fishing gear in the icy waters of Provincetown Harbor. Nicknamed Ibis, the humpback was rescued by Massachusetts researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies who became the first group to successfully disentangle a free-swimming whale. Since Ibis, the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team has freed more than 200 marine animals from life threatening entanglements, including seals and sea turtles, and have developed unique techniques and tools to do the job.
The World Heritage Committee announced that significant improvements in the preservation of the Everglades National Park in Florida and Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve in Honduras were sufficient to warrant their removal from UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage Sites.
The Recycle My Cell Phone campaign offers a quick and easy way to help reduce the more than 65,000 tons of dangerous waste created by the discarding every year of 2 million phones.
Hundreds of Magellanic penguins washed ashore in Argentina after an oil spill have been saved by volunteers. "Commando" Veterinarians built a field hospital to immediately remove the deadly oil and house the birds for the weeks of recovery.
"For 50 years, Britain's Peter Ashton has been studying â€" and trying to preserve â€" a wealth of diversity in Asia's tropical forests." (CS Monitor)
According to Dr. Marc Bekoff Ph.D., emotions like joy, love, empathy, compassion, kindness, and grief can readily be shared by improbable friends including predators and prey such as a cat and a bird, a snake and a hamster, and a lioness and a baby oryx.
Scientists have discovered a microbe that interacts with a hazardous industrial chemical in tainted groundwater rendering it biodegradable.
A weed called Kenaf can sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials. A retired building contractor is working with the fast-growing, carbon-sucking plant that can grow 14 feet in a single year.
As grasslands diminish on prairies and savannas around the world, an innovative ranching technique that reverses the environmental damage of desertification makes its way to the US. For a rancher whose livelihood depended on those diminishing grasslands, it was an oncoming economic and ecological disaster in slow motion. But in Colorado, the grass came back lush and green.
You can recycle and help others in need directly, at the same time.
A whale came to these boaters asking for help. He was grateful enough to pose for pictures afterwards.
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