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Agreement Reached in Gulf to Prevent Sea Turtle Burning Deaths
An agreement reached today among conservation groups, BP and the Coast Guard will ensure measures to rescue sea turtles from the surface before setting...
Fiery La. Politician Leads Fight To Clean Up Oil
One of the areas hardest hit by the BP oil spill is Louisiana's southernmost Parish located along the 70 miles of Mississippi river that...
Obama Pledges Full Force For Oil Cleanup, Tripling Personnel in the Region
The President made his second trip to the Gulf Coast Friday announcing his administration had tripled the manpower along the shoreline, beefing up a...
Thad Allen: Unsung Hero of BP Gulf Oil Leak?
Coast Guard Cmdr. Thad Allen, who is in charge of overseeing the federal response to the BP oil leak, announced yesterday that BP's "top...
U.S. Military Responds to Haiti Crisis
Yesterday the U.S. military began a massive relief effort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after a devastating 7.0-magnitute earthquake struck Tuesday. Two C-130 transport...
Sailor Recounts Incredible Rescue at Sea
A man whose boat had capsized in 10-20 foot waves off the North Carolina coast in storm conditions, set about swimming in a last...
Wayward Manatee is Flown Back to Florida
In a journey familiar to retirees but not sea mammals, Ilya the wayward manatee flew south for the winter Thursday after being rescued...
Heroes in School Shooting and Bridge Collapse Receive Prestigious Medals
Two years ago, a Nevada Middle School gym teacher confronted a student gunman who had already wounded others. With compassion and persuasion she convinced...
Good News in History, April 25
70 years ago today, Bell Labs finished the first functional solar cell, allowing for a panel of metal and glass to refract light and...
Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation
In a historic "first-of-its-kind" agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.
The owners...
Small Town Grocer’s Easter Egg Mistake is Turned into Inspiring National Charity Drive Raising Thousands
On an island off the coast of an island, a local grocer's big error turned into a successful national charity event.
Dan Dafydd wanted 80...
CA Redwoods to Be First National Park Co-Managed with a Native American Tribe That Used to Own it
The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on...
Good News in History, February 3
126 years ago, Alvar Aalto, the renowned architect and designer, was born in Finland. like Frank Lloyd Wright, Aalto would design all the interior...
World-First Video of Dolphins Stealing From Crab Pots Leaves Scientists Fascinated
In a bit of never-before-seen film, a dolphin was recorded off the coast of Australia robbing the bait from a crab trap.
The behavior was...
Hero Surfer Rescues Stranded Deer in Ocean – Photographer Captures Moment
Rough seas are no place for the uninitiated, and it couldn't get more uninitiated than a pair of hooves.
From New Jersey comes the story...
Remarkable Man Averts Oil Tanker Disaster by Crowdfunding to Remove Crumbling Ship From Red Sea
A derelict oil tanker off the coast of Yemen had more than a million barrels of crude sitting around, on the verge of leaching...
1 Million New Seagrass Seedlings Will Protect Sardinia’s Beaches While Storing 35-Times More Carbon Than Trees
To any government reading, there's a plant that provides habitat for nearly all the species of the sea, anchors the sediment on the seafloor,...
Tree of the Year Contest Features Oak that Stood Up to Bombing and Elm that Survived Catastrophic Plague
It's a wonderful time of the year in Britain, the time to honor the Isles' Tree of the Year.
Organized by the Woodland Trust, one...
Good News in History, June 24
42 years ago, The Humber Bridge became the world's longest single-span suspension bridge when it was inaugurated over the waters of the Humber Estuary...
Pufferfish Creating Beautiful Underwater Mandalas–A Scene of Pure Peace
Elaborate circles of sand and pebbles have been spotted off the coast of a Japanese island.
Prior to 2011, these strange, mandala-like circles found under...