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How Letters From Strangers Saved a Teen’s Life
After 13-year-old Noah scheduled a suicide for his birthday, his mother asked friends on Facebook to send letters to her son telling him how...
An Inconvenient Truth: More Polar Bears Alive Today Than 40 Years Ago
Author Zac Unger dragged his family to northern Canada in order to write a book about a vanishing species. He wanted to write the...
More Than 140 Nations, US and China, Adopt Treaty to Cut Mercury
Over the past 100 years, mercury concentrations have doubled in the top layer of the world's oceans. That's why more than 140 governments meeting...
Ozone Hole Shrinks: 25 Years of Montreal Protocol is Model of International Cooperation
The international agreement unveiled 25 years ago on September 16 to phase out chemicals harmful to the Earth’s ozone shield continues to reap results...
Placing Facebook Servers Near North Pole Eliminates Need for AC
Facebook chose to build its latest data storage facility 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden because colder temperatures eliminate the need...
Endangered Whales Sing Like Birds in Recordings That Hint at Rebound
A University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off...
Satellite Confirms: Twice as Many Emperor Penguins as Previously Thought (Video)
Emperor penguins in Antarctica are far more plentiful than previously thought, a study that used extremely high-resolution imagery snapped by satellites has revealed. "It...
World Happy Day Marks Worldwide Premiere of Film HAPPY
Searchers of happiness worldwide will unite tomorrow to view the award-winning film, HAPPY, in venues ranging from theaters to community centers, to private homes...
Blind Adventurer Regains Some Sight With Experimental Drug
Within days and without warning, adventure Mike Scholes lost most of the sight in his left eye, due to the onset of an inherited...
Unicorns of the Sea: Narwhals Joust for Superiority in Icy Waters
An age old mating ritual that is rarely glimpsed by humans, plays out in the most desolate reaches of the arctic-circle, as Narwhals on...
“Happy Feet” The Stranded Penguin Headed Home (Video)
The wayward emperor penguin that was found on a New Zealand beach June 20, far from his Antarctic feeding grounds and moved to the...
Court Upholds Protection for Polar Bears
A federal judge today upheld a May 2008 decision that polar bears throughout their range should be protected as a “threatened” species under the...
US Interior Department Sets Aside ‘Critical Habitat’ for Alaskan Polar Bears
The Obama Administration this week designated more than 187,000 square miles along the north coast of Alaska as “critical habitat” for the polar bear,...
Polar Bear Experts Offer Live Webcasts From Tundra During Bear Migration
Thousands of viewers from around the world are expected to log-on to “Tundra Connections” this week, to participate in free, live webcasts from the...
Operation Warm Gives Tens of Thousands of New Coats to Kids
Americans are helping to keep kids warm in spite of the recent Arctic blast through Operation Warm, a charity that provides brand new coats...
Heroes of the Environment 2009
From saving wild mountain rivers in China to measuring the Arctic's icy expanse, from protecting the lush forests of Africa to conducting...
Whale Saves Drowning Diver
A beluga whale saved a drowning diver by hoisting her to the surface, carrying her leg in its mouth. ...
Vast Reserve to Protect Prince Edward Islands and its Penguins
South Africa’s declaration to establish one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area’s around its Prince Edward Islands, is a marine conservation achievement of...
‘Astonishing Richness’ in Polar Sea Species
The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and...
Humpback and Two Other Whale Species on Road to Recovery
Three whale species, the humpback, minke and southern right, are recovering from the threat of extinction according to a new study released by the...