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Conservationists working to save the world’s rarest primate are seeing a glimmer of hope after the population of Hainan gibbons exceeded 30…

Why some kids are happier right now, and other unexpected effects of quarantine…

French ecologist and botanist Sophie Leguil is one of an army of "rebel botanists" working to identify the little-known and underappreciated wild plants that grow along the sidewalks and curbs of cities throughout Europe.

While some people are heading outside in snorkeling masks as makeshift protection, a group of scuba divers is using their social distancing time to help people and the oceans.

Thailand has discovered the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades on beaches bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic.

This “dogtor” may not have a degree in medicine, but he has been helping to treat hardworking healthcare employees with joy and care packages…

Although Australia is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic like the rest of the world, there is a sliver of good news for the land Down Under…

Making ear guards, raising money, and giving back: how kids are proving our future is so bright…

One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients breathing when they no longer can on their own…

You want to talk about “social distancing?” Here’s someone who really knows what that’s like, and how to deal with it.

Even in the most desperate times, music can lift the spirits — as some Italian neighbors have proven by singing together in harmony from behind closed doors…

Found in nearly 50 percent of supermarket products, palm oil is one of the most useful vegetable oils available. But it’s also a major driver of deforestation and habitat loss…

Luxembourg Transport Minister Francois Bausch hailed a “great day” for the Grand Duchy, as it became the first country on Earth to make public transport tickets free…

The first week in February brought good news to holistic practitioners in Massachusetts.

At the Green Free School (Den Gronne Friskole), in Copenhagen, educating children for a world affected by climate change begins with putting them in the right frame of mind.

No Native American tribe has ever received an invitation to store its traditional heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault…

Torrential rain swept across Australia’s east coast over the weekend after years of drought — putting out two of the biggest and longest-burning bushfires in the country’s populous region of New South Wales…

Student body presidents of the Big Ten universities are calling on their schools to divest from the fossil fuel industry…

Members of the Blackfeet Nation want tourists to understand how the story of Glacier National Park is really the story of their nation.

Why would a vegan cheese company want to reach across the aisle to help the competition?

The world's largest privately-owned giant sequoia grove — home to the fifth largest tree on Earth — is now safe from development.

One tiny Pacific nation has begun the new year with a ban on sunscreens that contain chemicals which affect the health of coral reefs and fish…

Serapium Forest is the most prosperous of Egypt’s 36 tracts of land that make up an ambitious program to combat desertification by creating sustainably managed commercial forests fed entirely by wastewater…

Greta Thunberg, 16, is the youngest individual to be recognized as Time Person Of The Year.

The story of the resurgence of the lobo mexicano (Canis lupis baileyi) begins in the late 1970s when former wolf trapper Roy T. McBride was commissioned by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a survey of wolves in Mexico…

After the Parkland shooting, the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack, promised the kids to stop selling all assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.

Want a free tree for your yard or neighborhood? L.A.’s Green New Deal to plant 90,000 trees in the city over the next two years is a bonus for residents…

Each bundle of joy in the maternity ward at Magee-Womens Hospital was decked out in a hand-crocheted red sweaters in honor of Fred Rogers…

The city of Eureka, California, returned more than 200 acres of land to the Wiyot Tribe that both community and tribe members have worked to heal…

The Boston Museum Of Science adds sensory-friendly planetarium show…

If you think all hope is lost for wildlife, you’re wrong…

The Delta “WING” flight—Women Inspiring our Next Generation—took girls between the ages of 12 to 18 from Salt Lake City to NASA headquarters in Houston to draw attention to the need to close the gender gap in aviation and promote STEM careers…