The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) Read by Thich Nhat Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem. The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Michael Stillwater. (Click double arrows for full screen…
Saudi conservationists have turned a large solar farm into a brilliant breeding ground for threatened native gazelles. Located in a massive, 24,500-square-mile nature reserve, the solar plant is now hosting Arabian sand gazelles, a species of special consideration for wildlife managers.
In a historic stand against animal cruelty, Switzerland has become the first country in the world to ban both the import and sale of fur. Last year, the Swiss Federal Council banned all imports of fur and fur products produced using “methods that involve cruelty to animals.”
The Norwegian government established a new marine protected area covering approximately 714 square miles, equivalent to almost 260,000 football pitches. Called the Andfjorden Marine Protected Area, the area is home to rich and varied marine life, whales and seabirds.
The Nyerere-Udzungwa Wildlife Corridor (NUWC), Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor, links savanna elephants to rainforest, and is the country’s first wildlife corridor to be given official protection. It’s designed to keep elephants out of people’s crop fields.
In a stunning display of profit sharing, the Fertitta brothers announced that each of Station Casinos’ 10,000 employees were to receive a bonus consisting of $1,000 of company stock for every year they’ve been on the payroll, totaling $70 million in gifts.
The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favor of the 2018 Earth Equal design that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
A rare win In Indian Country — what happened was something that almost never happens in Indian country: a coalition of tribes and organizers banded together and drove out a mining company in a matter of days.
With complications from diabetes taking its toll, a Chinese man outfits his van and takes his paralyzed wife on an epic road trip across coastal Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces: ‘Die on the road, not in a hospital.’
Filmed in Utah, two-time Emmy winner "Navajo Highways" is a children's puppet series told almost entirely in Navajo to help kids learn the language. Creator Pete Sands said the show is a way to keep the language alive for kids who might otherwise never hear it.
“This is what’s working,” report nine indigenous leaders from around the world on biodiversity and climate solutions in their communities. Mongabay interviewed these diverse leaders to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.
New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill has announced statewide housing resources and a coordinated support system that ensure no veteran has to go homeless in the state. Now, more veterans consistently enter housing in New Jersey each month than enter homelessness.
Zero roadkill has been recorded as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 wildlife crossings, and Brazil’s federal transport department officially designates the rope bridge design as the recommended national standard for highways to curb the millions of wildlife deaths recorded on roads annually.
A man dressed as Spider-Man helped a person in a wheelchair cross a busy street in Arkansas. A traffic camera caught it on video and the Jonesboro Police Department posted the footage on social media hours later.
Four states — Utah, Virginia, Idaho, and Oregon — just made it easier to build wildlife crossings, and the bipartisan effort is being called a 'blueprint.' Conservationists are celebrating.
On this historic semiquincentennial birthday, we look back at the brilliant tapestry of innovation, culture, and community flourishing for two and a half centuries and offer 250 reasons to love America on her 250th birthday.
Climate.us launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website last week, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.
Given just 8 months to live, a teen graduates cancer-free 4 years later thanks to a doctor’s promise. Watch the CBS video and see the moment at the end of the ceremony.
Japan's Samurai Blue fans cleaned up before they left the stadium in Dallas, using their blue bags to uphold a cleansing World Cup tradition after their team scored a late-tying goal for a draw against the Netherlands.
Dutch kids declared the world's happiest (again) in the latest World Happiness Report. Which begs an obvious question: what are the Dutch doing right?
An area of the Everglades known as the Picayune Strand, that was drained in an attempt to convert it to suburbia in the 50s, has seen huge rewilding success through an ongoing restoration project over the past 20 years. The restored Picayune is expected to help several endangered species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Florida panther.
Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, bringing the ancient disease closer than ever to eradication. Guinea worm is slated to be the first parasitic disease eradicated in history, and the first without a medicine or vaccine, strictly through behavior change and health education.
Marine scientists have discovered a record number of new species living in the depths of the world's oceans over the past year. A total of 1,121 new marine species were discovered in a single year.
In announcing New York City’s executive budget for the 2027 fiscal year on Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was applauded for closing a $12 billion budget deficit without austerity measures, proving that when city governments “stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish."
A small Wisconsin city has just notched a big win in its fight against a proposed data center, thanks to grassroots community organizing and support from a growing statewide coalition.
New study finds switching from conventional personal care products to nontoxic alternatives can rapidly reduce exposure to harmful chemicals. Even only a few days can lower body levels of substances linked to hormone disruption, cancer, developmental problems, and reproductive toxicity.
A chance discovery at a cemetery in Ithaca, New York has led scientists to uncover one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting bees ever recorded, with an estimated 5.5 million individuals of the species Andrena regularis living beneath the soil.
Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum. The landmark policy will unify a fragmented and unequal system that has left many unable to receive care.
Over Easter weekend, a vast livestream audience tuned in to celebrate something spectacular unfolding 145 feet up a pine tree in southern California’s San Bernardino national forest – the hatchings of two bald eagle chicks.
For most kids, you can’t beat a trip to the zoo. Now animals are streaming into 400 children’s hospitals from San Diego Zoo’s dedicated 24-hour channel for those unfortunate kids whose immune systems are too weak to endure such an excursion; instead, they have the chance to experience it from their hospital beds.
An ‘extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas has been reported as conservationists celebrate a second twin birth just two months after another set was discovered in Virunga National Park. Barely 250 mountain gorillas were left in the 1970s, and many thought the animals faced extinction.
Fred Rogers Productions and Little Dot Studios have teamed to bring Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to a dedicated YouTube channel that will make the wonder, kindness, and human connection of the series more discoverable and accessible than ever.
Teachers on Reddit making a teacher salary with “teacher mental health needs” shared the affordable and no-cost mental health resources they discovered to help them stay well on a small budget after refusing to pay $175/hour.
New elephant ambulance marks its inaugural rescue mission, bringing a 27-year-old to the hospital with a leg injury in Uttar Pradesh, India. The specially designed truck is built to move elephants in a way that protects both them and everybody else on the road.
Louisiana is among the worst-performing states in maternal and infant health outcomes. So, New Orleans is trying to catch health issues early — and get families off to an easier start — by adding home health visits during the crucial first months of life.
A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit, allowing its international work to continue in a new form. This reincarnation of USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures as the nonprofit DIV Fund is thanks to $48 million raised from two private donors.
The editors of "The Nation" magazine are in the process of formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
In a 2025 mini baby boom reported by the Ministry of Statistics, childbirths and marriages are up, and divorces are down in the world’s least fertile country. It’s believed that economic assistance for childcare has helped incentivize couples desiring children but who were wary of the economic burden in the high-cost country.
It's official: New York City is leading the world away from fossil fuels, being the first large U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive, city-wide mandate requiring most new construction to avoid fossil fuels and rely entirely on electric systems.
The world’s first global treaty to protect ocean life in international waters enters into force on 17 January 2026, bringing into effect legally-binding rules for the sustainable use and management of marine resources in the high seas.
A flat-headed cat in Thailand, a rare Javan leopard, a colossal squid filmed in its deep-sea home. Once in a while, an animal shows up where it’s least expected, including places from where it was thought to have gone extinct. Here's seven hopeful wildlife sightings that researchers celebrated In 2025.
A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after two of its members were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle, highlighting Buddhism’s long tradition of activism for peace.
Record numbers of sightings of one of the world’s most intelligent invertebrates over the summer have led the Wildlife Trusts to declare 2025 “the year of the octopus” in its annual review of Britain’s seas.
After a 137-year struggle, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition from the U.S. government. Members of the Native American tribe shed tears as it reached the historic milestone.
North America's 'largest wildlife overpass' is finally complete, thanks to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The six-lane highway is a crucial crossing point for countless elk, pronghorn, mule deer, mountain lions, and black bears, and is expected to reduce wildlife-vehicle crashes by 90%.
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation's top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis.
Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one bucket of paint at a time — as people are painting crosswalks across L.A. to protect pedestrians.
It’s 42% of Colombia’s territory. It’s 7% of the total Amazon rainforest. And it’s now free from future oil and mineral extraction as Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon — an area the size of Sweden.
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two, proving to the scientists onboard that they were seeing a species that had never before been seen in the wild: a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.
For a company that makes half the world’s zippers, new ideas have big impacts. YKK's innovative new tapeless zipper saves tons of fabric scraps while creating a better fit on your clothes.
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