Chum salmon are spawning again at an urban creek in the heart of East Vancouver. The salmon returned this week to Still Creek, which sits in a ravine surrounded by warehouses and was once thoroughly polluted by urban garbage, sewage and toxic chemicals. Much of the credit goes to people who have painstakingly restored their habitat.
A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team. Finding the frog was not an easy assignment. Sitting on a dime with much room to spare, Paedophryne amauensis, lives in leaf litter on the forest floor
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.
Using an undeveloped island he owns in the Caribbean, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson plans to create the first wild colony of lemurs outside of Africa, saying Monday it's a 'radical idea' to save an endangered primate that is disappearing.
Renowned for its infamous smog and severe pollution for centuries, London today has the cleanest air that it has had since the Middle Ages. Some of the most polluted places are the megacities of the developing world -- Shanghai, New Delhi, and Mexico City -- but in the 1930s and 1940s, London was more polluted than any of these cities are today.
By now, it's hardly news when a city bans plastic bags at checkout counters -- but an entire state? That's happened in Hawaii, where Honolulu County has joined the state's three other counties to give Hawaii a first-in-the-nation title after a two-year campaign.
Paving stones turn toxic gas into harmless dust, cleaning up 42% of air pollution from the cars driving over them.
Tired of the beautiful river view along his route to work spoiled by mounting trash, a man decided to pick up litter on his daily commute, and made a huge difference.
Healing the environment with every purchase, a Philadelphia retailer has already removed a quarter million pounds of trash from oceans, rivers, and beaches.
Atop a 17-story building in NYC lies a hidden sanctuary–a green space the size of five football fields to harbor wildlife, save energy, and divert runoff.
California is dumping millions of "shade balls" into its water, slowing evaporation and saving hundreds of millions of gallons of water during the drought.
UPS will keep 51,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air by using 46 million gallons of renewable diesel made from waste oils and fat.
The discovery of 11 new species of chameleons will let environmentalists harness their charisma to save Madagascar's rainforest.
Beekeepers have changed the ways they're managing their hives and there are now more honeybee colonies than at any time since 1994.
A young couple can continue to live off the land in the rolling Welsh countryside after finally winning an appeal to keep their "Hobbit Home".
Solar power for low-income housing and apartment renters is part of a broad White House plan to expand solar energy with the help of private partners.
Coke has unveiled a plastic bottle made from 100% plant materials leftover from the sugarcane manufacturing process.
A burgeoning movement to make sports more sustainable has signed up 300 professional and college teams and venues to play ball with the environment.
Lego's half century of toy dominance was built on petroleum-based plastic. But now the company is investing millions into trying to get rid of it.
A newly discovered fossil shows "Jesus lizards" walked on water when the badlands of the American west were a tropical rain forest 40 million years ago.
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