Home Search
winter - search results
If you're not happy with the results, please do another search
Wal-Mart Canada Opens First Environmental Demonstration Store
Wal-Mart Canada last week opened its first mega-green supercenter in Burlington, Ontario, which uses heat from the earth in a unique geothermal energy design,...
Grocery Chains Offer Free Antibiotics to Customers
If an antibiotic is just what the doctor orders for your infection this winter, you can get a free prescription at either Giant food...
10 Most Inspiring Stories for 2008
These are some of top good news stories from last year that really tugged at the heartstrings. They were also ten of the most...
Teens Trudge in Frigid Cold for Kids on Other Side of Globe
All throughout December, high school students walked to school in the frigid Minnesota temperatures (zero degrees) to symbolically "walk in the shoes of thirsty...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008
Feast your eyes on five of the winning photographs of the London Natural History Museum and BBC Magazine's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008...
Healthiest Cities in US: Lincoln, Nebraska is #1
The top four healthiest cities for 2007 according to the US Centers for Disease Control are: Lincoln, Nebraska; Fargo, North Dakota; Boulder, Colorado; and...
With Bees Dying by the Billions, Teens Protect Pollinators
Millions of Monarchs will begin arriving in Mexico this week in an annual migration that includes thousands traveling through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and some...
Chicago Outlines Climate Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Chicago became another in a long list of U.S. cities taking the lead in the fight against climate change.
On Thursday, Chicago mayor Richard M....
Australians Pioneer New Cheaper Fuel Cells
A much cheaper fuel cell could be on its way thanks to a breakthrough cathode built by Australian researchers that uses Gortex, the same...
Sewing Portable Beds for Down and Out Families
A finalist in this year's Australian of the Year awards, Jean Madden, a young mother, is helping her country's 100,000 homeless brace for another...
Humpback Whale Population Rebounding
From the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback over the past four decades, according to an extensive study. The new...
Honey Bees Stage Major Comeback
Over 85 percent of Ohio honeybees survived the past winter, a huge relief for farmers who rely on the marvelous insects to pollinate more...
175,125 Coats for Those In Need
One Warm Coat, a non-profit organization supporting local coat drives announced that the first ever Warm Coats & Warm Hearts Coat Drive collected 175,125...
Mexico Invests to Protect Monarch Butterflies
Mexico's president pledged $4.6 million to protect the forested nesting grounds which are the winter home for millions of monarch butterflies. (Nat'l Geographic )...
Super Foam Inventor Gets Whacked by a Shovel to Prove a Point (Video)
"A new super foam promises to protect athletes from impact and its inventor proved the point by taking a full force shovel hit to...
40 Years Ago Today The Beatles Changed the World
The Sixties were much more than a time of hippies, music, drugs and free love, the Kennedy era was dawning -- and along with...
100 Success Stories for Endangered Species
In honor of the second annual Endangered Species Day, May 18, a Web site celebrates the success stories and details conservation efforts that led...
Instead of Hauling Water Up Mountain, New Faucets for Tajiks
For decades, residents of Kuldara, a village nestled in the remote mountainous region of Khovaling, Tajikistan, hauled water on their shoulders from the bottom...
Amazing Snow Sculptures Compete in Contest
Winners have been crowned, and hot chocolate dispersed, in the 2007 Winterfest Snow Sculpting contest in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. First place was...
Pope and Politicians Praise Homeless Champion Abbe Pierre
Abbé Pierre, the French Roman Catholic priest whose radio appeal in 1954 for the homeless and destitute stirred the conscience of his nation has...