Having dropped a policy allowing state-owned English woodland to be sold to the private sector, the government is now committing instead to preserving it for future generations. Environment secretary Owen Paterson announced in January 2013 that a previous policy of selling off 15% of the public forest to raise funds was to be dropped and an independent public body created to hold them in trust.
A 4-month-old kitten in Scotland born without bones in his front legs, will be able to get surgery for his rare genetic condition, the insertion of metal pins into his legs, thanks to a successful fundraising effort from cat lovers on Facebook.
A drive to recognize good deeds is blossoming in northeast London. By the end of its Can U Feel It? campaign, 18,000 people will be honored by members of the community for their good deeds.
Scruffy was a stray mongrel nobody wanted until Daily Mirror reporter Jack Stoneley turned up and was struck by the loveable stray sitting forlornly in a cold cage. Jack's story appeared on the front page of the British newspaper on the day Scruffy was due for execution - and the readers refused to let the little dog die.
A 21-year-old beautician was so upset last week after hearing about a disabled elderly man injured in a mugging that she started an online campaign to help him. Donations for the Englishman surged when the campaign went viral and so far has raised more than $474,000 (£316K).
An 8-month old kitten snuggled inside a shipping container full of linens in Egypt and survived 17 days without food and water during a 3,000 mile journey.
Kyle De Souza created the first Masaai night school in East Africa, where he spent seven months building solar and wind infrastructure that could power the lights for villagers who must work in the fields during daylight hours in one of the most impoverished communities in the world.
After promising his wife every anniversary that they'd visit San Francisco, Larry and Barbara Richardson, who have built a 150-foot replica of the Golden Gate Bridge on their Kansas farm, finally came face to face with the iconic landmark.
Conservation efforts in Africa have successfully tripled the number of black rhinoceros in African reserves over the past decade. There are currently about 4,700 of the critically endangered rhinos, up from a low of nearly 2,100 in the early 1990s.
Thanks to strong conservation and law enforcement efforts, not a single rhino was killed by poachers in Nepal, the first such year in 29 years. Conservationists in the Himalayan nation celebrated at Chitwan National Park, which holds the vast majority of the country's 534 rhinos.
Scientists working in the dense jungles of Indonesia have rediscovered a large, gray monkey so rare it was believed by many to be extinct.
A dog named Tucker with a mysterious past as a stray on the streets of Seattle has become an unexpected star in the realm of canine-assisted scientific research. He is the world's only working dog, marine biologists say, able to find and track the scent of orca feces, in open ocean water — up to a mile away.
Conservation efforts in Africa have successfully tripled the number of black rhinoceros in African reserves over the past decade. There are currently about 4,700 of the critically endangered rhinos, up from a low of nearly 2,100 in the early 1990s.
The last decade has been the best for UK rivers since the Industrial Revolution, according to the Environment Agency. Rivers in England and Wales are at their healthiest for over a century, with otters, salmon and other wildlife returning to many rivers in record numbers in locations across the country.
A few of the lost species thought to be extinct have made miraculous reappearances in 2010, like the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, an earthworm that smells like lillies when handled, a slender loris, and the short tailed albatross...
Researchers from Yale University say dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galápagos Islands.
Ten years ago, Debbie Jakacki, owner of Jakacki Bag & Barrel in Chicago, a family business that's been around since 1942, found herself continually frustrated by her employees. We didn't have a lot of people who had a great work ethic, says Jakacki. After learning about the Safer Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit that helps people with criminal records find gainful employment, she decided to give it a try, and it has worked out very well.
Those who make sport out of denigrating the federal workforce should meet the winners of this year's Samuel Heyman 'Service to America Medals'. For the 10th year, public servants were honored at a black-tie gala, presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
General Electric plans to select a location in about three months for a U.S. solar-panel plant that may be the country's largest, with an investment that will exceed $600 million and power 80,000 homes.
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