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Rate of Uninsured Hits New Low as More Americans Get Health Coverage
A new study shows more Americans have health insurance than ever before.
According to the latest quarterly Gallup poll, the rate of uninsured adults is...
Bulletproof, Fireproof, Eco-friendly Homes Are Made of Plastic Bottles
People from Africa to Latin America are recycling bottles and using them to build fireproof, bulletproof, environmentally-friendly homes.
For about a quarter the cost of...
Road Paved With Recycled Plastic Would Snap Together Like Legos
Plastic litter along roadsides may soon be used to make new roads. A company in the Netherlands has come up with a plan to...
Cystic Fibrosis Hope Comes as New Gene Therapy Improves Condition
A new gene therapy attacks cystic fibrosis at its cause, improving or stabilizing lung function while potentially reducing or eliminating the dozens of drugs...
Cloud Lifts India’s Waste Pickers Off Trash Piles Without Ending Recycling
The third largest city in India piles up huge amounts of garbage every day, while recycling very little. Thousands of Bangalore's poorest citizens pick...
Oakland Artist Turns Illegally Dumped Trash Into Homes For Homeless
Each morning, Greg Kloehn takes a cup of coffee and drives around the streets near his home studio looking for the piles of illegally dumped...
Recycled Christmas Trees = Mulch, Dunes, Habitats
It's one of America's great recycling success stories: Every year, hundreds of thousands of discarded Christmas trees are collected and reused. Many are picked...
And, the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2013 are…
They clean up rivers, build homes for disabled veterans and bring health care to some of the darkest parts of the world. They help...
Sunbathers Can Browse for Books at This Beach Library (WATCH)
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On the sands of a Black Sea resort in Bulgaria, vacationers are encouraged to indulge in their favorite old-fashioned pastime: reading a book...
Italian Ingenuity: Europe’s First Zero Waste Town
Capannori, a rural town in the Italian province of Lucca, in Tuscany, boasts a proud history. Six years ago, it became a trendsetter and...
Houston’s Plan To Make Landfills Extinct
To increase the city’s dismal recycling rates, Houston’s government is trying something else: One Bin for All. It will collect all trash together in...
“LandFillHarmonic” Orchestra Plays With Instruments Made of Trash
In Paraguay there is a town essentially built atop a landfill where adults pick through the latest heaps of trash for sellable goods and...
Start Up Company Wins $630,000 for Making Bio-Plastic Out of Greenhouse Gas
A young start-up called Mango Materials has won a Green Challenge prize of $630,000 for its plan to use bacteria to turn the most...
Brazilian Slum Landfill Turned into Park by Volunteers
A former landfill in a Rio de Janeiro slum has been turned into a park thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers.
"People came here...
Iraq Veterans Turn Around Drug-infested Neighborhood
Veterans are taking the lead in Baltimore, cleaning up years of blight and helping residents in a mostly poor, African-American neighborhood to rid the...
Entrepreneurs Turn Food, Industrial Waste into Profit
Some entrepreneurs build businesses from scratch, others build them from trash, believing that garbage—once destined to rot in a landfill—can be repurposed into profitable...
Composting Project Puts 12 Tons of Dog Poop to Good Use
It’s been almost three years since a grand experiment began in a dog park in Ithaca, N.Y., and the results are finally in.
Dog dung...
Sick Boy Gets Fantasy Bedroom Makeover Courtesy of Design Gives Back
A courageous boy battling life-threatening brain tumors received a Miracle Makeover from a designer who makes it her business to give back to suffering...
CNN Names Top 10 ‘CNN Heroes’ for 2011
CNN announced its Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2011, while opening online voting that will determine the winner of the $250,000 grand prize. All...
Rags 2 Riches Lifts Women from Filipino Landfill into High Fashion Trade
Four years ago, in one of the Philippines' largest dumpsites and home to 12,000 families, women searched through garbage for fabric scraps to weave...