How 550 Volunteers Transformed a Filthy, Waste-filled Train Station in India
Gaurang Damani complained so often about the dirt and stench in a Mumbai train station that Central Railway finally let him adopt it. It is now unrecognizable.
Gaurang Damani complained so often about the dirt and stench in a Mumbai train station that Central Railway finally let him adopt it. It is now unrecognizable.
A 7-year-old boy has proven the destructive power of a fire is no match for a pair of elementary school best friends. (WATCH)
Andreas Raptopoulos wants to use aerial drones to save lives, by helping the one billion people who do not have year-round access to roads.
Another example of how a drone can be a lifesaver, rather than a killer, comes from a group of young engineers in Iran whose robotics expertise has been put to work developing an alternative to human lifeguards along the Caspian Sea coast, where more than a thousand people drown every year. Their drone can speedily fly to swimmers in trouble and drop three life preservers.
A new study says men who are heavy coffee drinkers are at a much lower risk for prostate cancer. Harvard scientists followed 47,911 men for two decades and asked how much coffee they were drinking. The researchers found that those who consumed six or more cups a day -- with or without caffeine -- were almost 20% less likely to develop prostate cancer. The heavy coffee drinkers were 60% less likely to get the lethal form of the disease. (NY Times)
A father posted on Reddit asking for a favor for his son who believes his Tooth Fairy lives in Australia. A dad in Victoria struck the perfect note.
50,000 free endangered species condoms handed out on Earth Day remind people that unwanted pregnancies and population growth exacerbates the extinction crisis.
Since the first Earth Day 40 years ago, America has become a cleaner, safer, more beautiful place with less pollution, more pristine rivers, fewer people littering, and many endangered species rescued from the brink. Here are 40 successes in 40 years since the first Earth Day -- an anniversary timeline.
Lake Tahoe is the clearest it has been in 10 years, said U.C. Davis researchers last week.
Are kids today becoming sedentary and obese because of a heightened desire for video games, or because their inborn desire to run free in the neighborhood has been squashed by overly fearful parents? Simply letting kids "off-leash" more often, freeing them up to (literally) run around on their own without constant direct adult supervision would be an excellent way to encourage exercise.
China will ban water-polluting paper mills, oil refineries, pesticide producers and other industrial plants by the end of 2016, as it moves to tackle severe pollution of the country's water supply.
She had always planned to go to college, but when her father died while she was in high school, she took a job to support the family. At 22, her selflessness was rewarded.