IBM and partners are working on solving one of the biggest barriers to widespread electric vehicle adoption: limited battery range. Under its Battery 500 project - an effort to build a battery capable of powering a car for 500 miles - Big Blue has designed a battery that produces power by taking in oxygen and then recharges itself by expelling oxygen.
Conservation groups working to preserve the Congo, Andes Mountains, and Pacific islands will see a $1 billion donation from Bezos' Earth Fund
Two Siberian tiger cubs abandoned in Russia by their mother have found an unusual wet nurse — a wrinkled, sand-colored Shar Pei dog. The dog, found at a local dog training club nurses and grooms the cubs as if they were her own.
The Amur leopard was thrown a lifeline last week with the establishment of a new national park in Russia to help protect the world's rarest wild cat. Fewer than 40 Amur leopards are believed to exist in the wild. The majority of those currently reside in the new Land of the Leopard National Park, thanks to funds from the Russian government.
The Amur leopard was thrown a lifeline yesterday with the establishment of a new national park in Russia, announced by the World Wildlife Fund, to help protect the world's rarest wild cat. Fewer than 40 Amur leopards are believed to exist in the wild. The majority of those currently reside in the new Land of the Leopard National Park, which will be operated with funds from the Russian government.
The total world population of mountain gorillas has risen to 880, according to census data released last week by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. That's almost a ten percent increase over its 2010 estimate of 786. This is largely due to intensive conservation efforts and successful community engagement
With the threat of sanctions against her country looming, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today pledged to end ivory trade in Thailand, seizing a key opportunity to stem global wildlife trafficking. It was the first time the Thai government has said publicly that it would take steps to end ivory trade.
The Bolivian government recently created the largest protected wetland in the world - an area bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined, more than 17 million acres (6.9m hectares). The Llanos De Moxos wetland is prized for its rich natural diversity, as the home to 131 species of mammals, 568 types of birds, and 625 fish species. Several species - including the giant otter and the Bolivian river dolphin - have been identified as vulnerable, endangered or at critical risk of extinction.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund for a bold initiative to help Nepal double its wild tiger numbers by 2022 - the next Chinese Year of the Tiger. The grant is the first award following the Christie's 11th Hour Charity Auction, created by DiCaprio, which raised a record $38.8 million for conservation in a single night.
Academy Award-winning actor, musician and director Jared Leto was this month named WWF Global Ambassador to bring attention to wildlife poaching across Africa and Asia.
The 40-year-old Hollywood actor announced this week that he is donating $15 million – his biggest single grant to date – to support 30 conservation groups.
All 193 members of the United Nations have finally found something they all can agree on: protecting the world's wildlife. A new pledge will enforce it.
New Zealand is telling fishing and mining industries to keep their "hands off" a huge part of the South Pacific.
The World Wildlife Fund has purchased exclusive rights to fish for sharks along Australia's Great Barrier Reef with beautiful intentions.
Felix Finkbeiner is on a mission to get children around the world to plant a million trees in every single country for his booming Trillion Tree Program.
Ontario plans to cut the use of neonicotinoid insecticide-coated seeds, blamed for killing bees, by 80% in the next two years
Environmentalists are praising the Lowe's hardware chain for making a commitment to eliminate neonicotinoid pesticides –a leading contributor to global bee declines – from its stores.
The global agricultural companies that test their genetically modified crops on the Hawaiian island of Kauai will soon have to disclose the specifics of the pesticides and GMOs they use, as well as abide by strict rules limiting where pesticides can be sprayed, or else face fines or jail time.
To protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present. The new labels will have a bee hazard icon and precautions about the spray drift precautions, but environmentalists say they will push the agency to remove these pesticides from the market altogether.
A leading U.S. home and garden pesticide maker has announced it will phase out all products that use a chemical linked to bee deaths.
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