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Warming Draws Evangelicals into Environmentalist Fold
Pastor Joel Hunter is a leading advocate among evangelicals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, "regularly preaching about climate change to 7,000 congregants in five...
New Environmentally Friendly Jet Planned
"A new British low-cost airline easyJet has unveiled a design for their planned ecoJet that would be 25 percent quieter and emit 50 percent...
NYC Pledges 1 Million New Trees in Sweeping Environmental Package
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled plans on Sunday for a more energy-efficient city where pedestrians would be shaded by more trees while...
U.S. Supreme Court Gives Boost to Environmental Groups on Power Plant Cleanup
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously supported a federal clean-air bill that "forces power companies in the U.S. to install pollution control equipment...
Bank of America Launches $20 Billion Environmental Initiative
America's largest retail bank announced this week they will start to spend billions on projects that help sustain the earth, like offering commercial loans...
China to Invest $175 Billion in Environment Clean-Up
"China plans to invest $175 billion in environmental protection in the next 5 years, to curb water and air pollution so severe it...
Underwater Windmills Supply Environmentally Friendly Power to NYC
Experimental underwater windmills will be installed in New York City's East River during the next weeks to begin generating power utilizing the non-stop action...
Brazil Expands Amazon Protection as Global Environmental Conference Starts
CURITIBA, Brazil — Brazil announced plans to expand protection of the Amazon rain forest at the opening of 11-day Global Environmental Conference. Brazil's...
Golf Courses Drop Manicured Look to Reduce Environmental Harm
50% drop in Herbicide Use; 90% Decline in Insecticides Concerned about the environmental hazards of landscaping chemicals used to achieve a typical golf...
Locals Finally Save ‘the Yosemite of South America’ After Decade Long Battle with Industrialist Who Owned it
A wonderful story comes to us now from Patagonia where a valley of towering granite cliffs and rare species was saved from development by...
Good News in History, May 13
115 years ago today, the inaugural Giro d'Italia, was held, with cyclists competing in 21 different stages across over 1,200 miles of the country. The...
‘Wind Repowering’ Has Rejuvenated Turbines to Boost Gigawatts and Power Millions More Homes
Reprinted via EarthTalk®, From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine
What is wind repowering and why are environmentalists so bullish on it?
While wind...
An Ancient Collapse of Earth’s Magnetic Field Led to Multicellular Animals Emerging
A fascinating new discovery offers "tantalizing" evidence for the origin of multicellular development in life on Earth.
It seems related to something that had perhaps...
Good News in History, May 4
198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was...
Scientists Are Making Jet Fuel from Landfill Gas Aiming to Launch Circular Economy
In a world-first, University of Sydney researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted...
Good News in History, May 3
71 years ago today, two men were rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell...
Mega Rare Blue Rock Thrush Spotted on Oregon Beach Is First Sighting in US History
Owing to personal interest, GNN is partial to stories of rare bird sightings, and news from Oregon recently broke the story of a 'mega-rare'...
Conservation Almost Always Provides Incredible Results, First-of-its-Kind Report Shows
In the only study of its kind ever attempted, one which poured over hundreds of papers examining the impact of conservation efforts, scientists from...
Good News in History, April 29
125 years ago today, the musician and composer Duke Ellington, one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, was born in Washington,...
Spiders From Mars? Phenomenon Evokes David Bowie Song in These Photos Taken Near South Pole of Red Planet
David Bowie would love this! There are spiders from Mars—if you believe these photos.
Incredible images taken by the European Space Agency’s spacecraft, the Mars...