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Judge Rules Bush’s Lax Pesticide Law Illegal
A federal judge in Seattle yesterday overturned new Bush administration rules that weaken the governing of pesticide use and their effect on endangered plants...
Black Rhino Numbers Up 20 Percent
Black rhino numbers are on the rise in Kenya after years of decline from poaching and habitat loss.
According to officials, the country's black rhino...
Disney Donates Endangered White Rhinos to Uganda
To boost populations of white rhinos in their native Uganda, Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida sent two of the huge animals on a four-day...
At-Risk Teens Care for Homeless Dogs
Kids caught in the juvenile detention system in Albany, Georgia, have a chance to change their outlook on life by caring for and training...
McVictory! Fast Food Giant to Protect Amazon With Purchasing Power
(GreenPeace News) In an historic deal that has impacts far beyond the golden arches, McDonald's is now the leading company in the campaign to...
Check out the Archives!
I uploaded another 13 stories to the Archives: stories from the old website's LIFE section, 1997-1998. They remain timeless stories of organizations still operating...
Silk Could Help Repair Nerves
UK researchers have used strands of silk-like fiber to create a scaffold that prompted nerve cells to grow. The hope is that the silk...
Cow Dung Is Used to Make Electricity
Instead of treating the waste from cows in smelly lagoons, why not harness the methane for energy, break down the waste for fertilizer and...
Buddhists Coexist with Tigers at Sanctuary
A remarkable monastery in Thailand cares for wild animals which are being squeezed off their land by too much development. A video shows tigers...
Panda Numbers Doubled
A new method of counting Giant Pandas in the wild using DNA revealed there was more than double the estimated number living in one...
Neglected Horses Get Second Chance
Bryce and Chris LeJeune have started the nonprofit Second Chance Equine Association to help a growing number of abandoned and neglected horses, ponies and...
Sanctuary Cares For Hundreds of Misfit Pigs
An 80-acre sanctuary near Phoenix is a refuge to more than 400 pigs, casualties of the potbellied pig craze of the 80's and 90's....
German Shepherd Carries Two Baby Ducks in Mouth to Safety
A spokesman at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, commented on recent behavior by a Scottish German shepherd: "The...
Barbaro: More Inspiring Than If He’d Won Triple Crown
Last year, Afleet Alex made our hearts skip a beat and then leap for joy when he fell to his knees and then miraculously...
A Hero to Iraqi Kids, American Soldier Inspired to Give Gifts
From the Oregonian comes this Memorial Day tribute to an American soldier who gets a kick out of bringing gifts to the kids in...
Grassroots Internet Campaign Pressures Indonesia to Save Orangutan Rainforest
Under intense international pressure, the Indonesian government has virtually abandoned plans to convert large areas of ancient rainforest in the "Heart of Borneo" that...
Jaguars Returning to U.S.
It seemed that jaguars were gone from the United States. The cat's historic range extended from northeastern Argentina through Brazil, Central America, Mexico and...
Mad Cow Disease on the Wane Worldwide
(23 March) ROME — Cases of mad cow disease worldwide are declining at a rapid rate, some 50 percent a year over the past three...
Valuable Borneo Forests Set Aside to Sustain Endangered Orangutans, Elephants and Rhinos
The government of the Malaysian state of Sabah announced Friday it will protect its most important remaining lowland forests on the island of Borneo....
A Sure Sign of Spring: Wild Whooping Cranes Return to Wisconsin
Among the signs of springtime these days in central Wisconsin is the arrival of wild whooping cranes on Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and along...