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Good Samaritans Save Drowning Animal From Frozen River Only to Discover It Was a Wild Wolf
Though these construction workers had suspicions of this animal's true nature, they did not hesitate to come to its rescue when it was in distress.
Florida Set to Become a World Leader in Renewable Energy With 30 Million New Solar Panels
The initiative is expected to become “the largest installation of solar panels by a regulated utility in the world.”
For the First Time Ever, Developing Countries Added More Clean Power Capacity Than Fossil Fuel
Additionally, developing nations are building more clean energy capacity than wealthier nations.
Special Bacteria is Found to be a ‘Battery’ That Turns Sewage Waste into Clean Hydrogen Energy
Scientists have found that purple bacteria could be a groundbreaking new resource for producing clean hydrogen energy out of human waste.
New Battery Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide Before It Ever Reaches the Atmosphere
Lithium-based battery could make use of greenhouse gas before it ever gets into the atmosphere.
Written by David L. Chandler, MIT News
A new type of battery...
Remember the Young Man With a Plan to Rid Oceans of Plastic? His Massive Project to Launch This Summer
At just 18 years old, this Dutch teenager claimed he could tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – and starting this summer, he is going to do just that.
When Grandma With Alzheimer’s Can’t Do Her Puzzles, Teen Comes Up With Perfect Solution
Mary Frates has always adored doing word searches, but after dementia set in as she aged, the 86-year-old found herself unable to participate in her...
These Teens Developed a Seed That Can Cleanse Polluted Water
They may be young, but these Brazilian students are doing big things with their magic water-filtering seed that won them the Google Science Fair award.
After Two Centuries, Atlantic Salmon Return to the Connecticut River
For the first time since the American Revolution, wild Atlantic Salmon are spawning in the Connecticut River.
Industrial pollution and a series of dams constructed...
Salmon Numbers Jump at Central Idaho Mountain Lake
More endangered sockeye salmon have made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho’s high-elevation Redfish Lake this year than in the...
Texas Lake Welcomes Back Paddlefish Gone for Years
Deep beneath the surface of Texas' only naturally formed lake there used to swim a massive, open-mouthed dinosaur-era fish with a long snout and...
Restoring Lake Erie’s Largest Wetland After 75 Years
Only around 5 percent of the wetlands in western Lake Erie remain from the days before pollution and dam construction.
Now, a five-year process is...
Wild Salmon Making Huge Comeback in California
For years, fishermen, farmers and hydroelectric dams were in a tug of war on the Klamath River in California. Finally, the once bitter enemies...
Agreement to Connect Again a River With the Ocean
Called "The Nile of North America, the Colorado River flowed freely across the Mexico border 50 years ago and fed the delta to the...
Extinct in the Wild, Toad Makes a Comeback
The thumbnail-sized golden colored Kihansi Spray Toad, only discovered by scientists in 1996, was officially declared Extinct in the Wild by the International Union...
Hope for Salmon as Dams Come Down
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history began in September, marking a victory for a campaign that spanned more than two decades. Two...
Alabama Turns Around Historic Species Loss With First Comeback From Endangered List
Alabama leads the lower 48 states in river bed extinctions, with 29 snails and 28 mussel species so far. But the state now becomes...
Iraq’s “Garden of Eden” Wetlands Has Finally Been Restored After Saddam’s Destruction
At the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, considered by some to be the original Garden of Eden, almost half of Iraq’s fabled...
Record Numbers of Steelhead Trout Running in Columbia River
After decades of decline in salmon and steelhead runs, this year the largest steelhead run in the history of dam counts is crossing Bonneville...