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Acres of Toxic Chemicals and Rusting Cars Becomes National Park After Amazing Transformation
When President Gerald Ford signed a bill creating Cuyahoga National Recreation Area in Ohio in 1974, the boundaries of the site deliberately included a...
Tiny New Species of Chocolate Frog is Discovered After Scientists Follow its Unique ‘Beep’ Sound
A tiny new species of burrowing frog has been discovered after scientists were able to find it by its unique "beep" sound.
Identified by biologists...
Iconic Pink Flamingos Are Coming Back and Standing Tall in Florida
Once extirpated from Florida such that it lost its status as a native species, the American Flamingo is being sighted again in the state's...
College Seniors Fix Erosion in New Orleans By Resuming Citywide Bottle Recycling to Crush Them For Sand
It was during a conversation over a bottle of wine, one which they knew would simply end up in a landfill, that a pair...
Beavers Saved From Euthanasia Transform and Replenish Rivers in the Utah Desert
Beavers and their dams can positively impact essentially any environment they're placed in, even the scorching heat of the Moab Desert in Utah. And...
Researchers Solve Mystery of Scattered Black Glass in Chilean Desert – it Was Made by an Exploding Comet
A vast swath of dark rocky glass littering a Chilean desert has remained a mystery for a decade, but Brown University researchers just confirmed...
Farmers Tempt Endangered Cranes Back – By Switching to Grow Their Favorite Food
Cranes in Cambodia are getting a helping hand from an unlikely source, as rice farmers sign up to take a pay cut in the...
Destroyed by Fire, Drought, and Dust Storms, These Australian Marshes Needed Only Two Years to Completely Recover
In 2019, drought choked off the Macquarie River in Australia, and fires swept through the marshes which it fed and left firefighters helpless to...
Biden Restores National Monuments Shrunk Under Trump
Established during Obama and Clinton, shrunk in some places and expanded in others by Trump and by Congress, and now restored to their original...
Australia Returns Huge Daintree Rainforest to its Aboriginal Owners, Bordering Great Barrier Reef
Over 600 square-miles of ancient rainforest with rivers, waterfalls, gorges and white sandy beaches was handed back to the traditional people who had lived...
World’s First 5-Nation Reserve Spans 4,000 Sq-Miles in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia: ‘The Amazon of Europe’
The 'Amazon of Europe'—a victory for nature 12 years in the making, has finally come to pass as a transboundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve covering...
The New Orleans Levees Held – Passing Their First Major Test Since Hurricane Katrina
There are several "great walls" in the world, but in this very moment, none are greater than the "Great Wall of Louisiana," the rebuilt-levees...
What Makes the Sea Smell So Unique?
Is there anything better than the beginning of a beach vacation when you get your first sniff of the ocean? That chilled, briny, slightly...
35 Circus Elephants Arrive in Amazing Florida Sanctuary to Retire Among Forest, Grassland, and 11 Watering Holes
Some kids dream of running away to join the circus—while the Ringling Bros. elephants that had been performing every night might have been dreaming...
230,000 Acres of Tropical Rainforest Protected as Biodiversity Hotspot For Jaguars in Belize
Decades ago, a radical idea was born to protect the Maya Forest in Belize. What if NGOs, the government, community leaders, and businesses could...
A Team of Maverick Engineers Want to Roll the Geological Clock Back on Sinai and Replace Desert with Lush Greenery
A pioneering Dutch land engineer wants to turn the Sinai Desert into the Sinai Forest, using techniques demonstrated on a mass scale in China.
Theorizing...
Nothing Restores a River or Local Economy Like Removing a Dam
Across the United States, 69 river dams were removed from American rivers in 2020, opening up 624 miles of waterways to flow freely.
The work...
400 Years After Being Wiped Out by Hunters Britain’s Wild Cranes Make a Comeback
Extinct for more than 400 years, common cranes are finding homes in the UK's wetlands and waterways once again.
Because of conservation efforts that began...
Singapore’s Plan to Plant 1 Million Native Trees Will Protect Species and Put a Park 10 Minutes From Every Citizen
In an effort to restore Singapore's once-rich mangrove forest ecosystems, the nation is embarking on a 1 million tree planting spree in hopes that...
Couple Turns Barren English Estate into Conservation Eden, Rewilding to Attract Rare Species of Astonishing Biodiversity
In southern England, a struggling farming estate with a 19th-century castle that had been in the Burrell family for over 200 years was low...