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They can count, learn and remember; nurse sick neighbors; warn each other of danger by sending electrical signals across a fungal network known as the “Wood Wide Web”…

In the state of South Australia, wind erosion is a huge problem, exacerbating droughts and making farming exponentially more difficult. One farmer came up with perhaps the prettiest solution we've ever seen…

Activists who blockaded an oil train in September 2014 will not face financial restitution claims or jail time.

On the heels of President Obama’s gun reform speech, fiery conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly made a surprising statement criticizing senseless pro-gun ideology, taking on the pro-gun lobby…

  How Zanzibar’s Butterfly Farmers Are Saving The Environment by Aarian Marshall, Good Magazine Charcoal is big business in Zanzibar, the East African archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. The World Bank estimates that 90 percent of the region’s energy…

Hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts workers are expected to see a boost in pay on Jan. 1 when the state’s hourly minimum wage increases from $9 to $10 per hour…

The United States is a country of pet lovers—and state lawmakers are taking notice.

If you watch the news, you'd think anti-Muslim hysteria is everywhere. Thankfully, that's not true…

A massive swath of protected Amazon rainforest—a green corridor teeming with wildlife— has just grown by 3.3 million acres…

Thanks to the kindness of one woman, thousands of kids at homeless shelters in NYC will experience more cheer this Christmas.

Bill Gates thinks the 1% should foot the bill for renewable energy, and he's offering the first $2B…

Starting in 2016, Rabbi Albert Guigui will be joined by Bishop Johan Bonny and Imam Khalid Benhaddou as the faces of diversity and coexistence on a new postage stamp put out by Belgian post office.

Turns out Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, a self-proclaimed feminist, is not just a pretty face on some capaign posters—he’s also serious about his commitment to gender equality…

Palau just created one of the five largest fully protected marine reserves in the world…

This planned power plant in Wales may look like the Guggenheim Museum but its benefits far outweigh the beauty: it will use the rise and fall of ocean tides to generate enough renewable electricity to power 155,000 homes for 120 years...

In defending his holistic trainer, the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady takes aim at how food companies have hijacked American nutrition...

Love the organic lifestyle? Chances are you live in these 10 states, and most likely in California...

As Congress battles over abortion, supporters of reproductive justice take stand nationwide...

9 Fortune 500 Companies joined RE100, pledging to source 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy “to reduce CO2 emissions and seize the business benefits”...

A Texas teen that was arrested for bringing his science project to school has been invited to tour the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus...

A federal appeals court has overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the pesticide sulfoxaflor, citing the threat to already vulnerable bee populations and more good news!

A century of invasive experiments on chimpanzees in the United States will come to a halt in about 10 days, and more good news...

President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle...

Although it does not yet merit an official polio-free certification, the milestone reminds everyone at the United Nations and the Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign of the important progress toward eradication.

After whale watchers aboard the Dolphin Fleet spotted the whale, the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team from the Center for Coastal Studies spent four to five hours freeing the whale from the entanglement...

Since the 2013 release of Blackfish, a bombshell documentary exposing animal cruelty at SeaWorld, the aquatic theme park has lost increasing levels of both profits and visitors, reporting an 84 percent plunge in net income in just three months...

In cities across the United States on July 29, the name of Sandra Bland, a woman whose mysterious death in police custody recently made headlines, could be seen bringing light to dark city nights.

The Food and Drug Administration wants to make it easier for Americans to track how much added sugars we're getting in the foods and beverages we choose...

Sanders' speech in Phoenix on Saturday night brought together an estimated eleven to twelve thousand people – one of the largest political rallies in the city's history.

Spirit of Change Magazine will now publish semi-annually with two large, beautiful issues per year — Fall and Spring

Boston’s Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox, is known for a high left field wall, nicknamed “The Green Monster.” Now, America’s oldest Major League Baseball field still in use will be known for something else that’s green: the largest organic rooftop garden in the Majors...

Researchers in Germany have found that humans respond strongly to a specific fragrance--in ways that could ignite a woman’s sex drive...

At least 5,500 Coloradans crammed into a Denver gymnasium, an adjacent atrium, and lacrosse field Saturday night to hear presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speak...

The David Lynch Foundation is bringing meditation to middle schools and high schools with higher-than-average rates of absenteeism, teacher turnover, and gaps in grades and graduation rates...

Last week, domestic workers — those who care for children and clean inside people’s homes — won two surprise victories securing more rights in Connecticut and Oregon...

Many flight attendants and pilots would count, among their job perks, the ability to travel and see the world. But for 78 new pilots and 300 new cabin crew members hired by Air India, there's also yoga...

Ireland makes history by legalizing gay marriage—reminding people that change is possible...

The “Don’t Frack Denver” campaign draws renowned nature photographer John Fielder to help keep fracking out of the Mile High City...

  A Century of Women Working for Peace by Amy Goodman One hundred years ago, more than 1,000 women gathered in The Hague during World War I, demanding peace. Now, a century later, in these very violent times, nearly 1,000…

Kshama Sawant, a native of India, became the first socialist elected to citywide office in Seattle in decades when she toppled a four-term incumbent in 2013...

For the past 13 years, the Holistic Life Foundation has focused on bringing mindfulness meditation and self-regulation techniques to their headquarters in Baltimore and beyond.

The U.S. Supreme Court's arguments on Tuesday over same-sex marriage will cap more than two decades of litigation and a transformation in public attitudes.

Germany abruptly shifted its policy Monday from a steadfast refusal to use the term “genocide” to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces 100 years ago.

The Verizon Device Recycling Program helps the environment by providing a safe way to dispose of unwanted electronic devices and rewards consumers for recycling and being green.

When photographer Robert van Waarden heard about Transcanada’s Energy East project—a tar sands pipeline that, if built, would be the longest such pipeline in the world and would exceed the capacity of Keystone XL by about 30 percent—he did what he knew how to do: he took pictures...

In the wake of the financial crisis, President Obama took the helm of a sinking economic ship and helped to right it. Why are the Republicans so silent about the good news?