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Posing With Your Family On The Beach? Try It With Yoga
With summertime in full swing, many families are hitting the beach. Instead of sitting on the beach chair all day, though, why not grab your...
Great-Grandmother Jumps Out of Plane for 100th Birthday (WATCH)
For her 100th birthday, a South African great-grandmother decided to celebrate by jumping out of a plane.
Georgina Harwood skydived for her centennial birthday telling...
After Jumping From Golden Gate Bridge Man Says Sea Lion Saved Him
A man who took a suicide leap off the Golden Gate Bridge told an audience at a mental health conference in Australia how he...
Do Animals Have Compassion? These Five Certainly Seem to…
Random acts of kindness aren't only limited to human beings. In fact, animals should get way more credit for their surprising displays of love,...
Fishermen Rescue Rare Whale From Nets Thanks to New Training Program
An extremely rare type of whale has been saved from almost certain death thanks to a training program for Pakistani tuna fishermen.
The February 10...
Lego Releases Female Scientist Set After 7-year-old Girl Complains
Months after a girl took the company to task for its female toy figures, Lego has released the Research Institute, a play set created...
Top 10 Good News Stories of 2013
Saying goodbye to 2013 feels bittersweet. When we remember the crime and tragedies of the year, we tend to forget all the good things....
SHE DID IT: Diana Nyad Completes Historic Cuba to Florida Swim
This time, neither storm, jellyfish, nausea, nor utter fatigue could keep 64-year-old endurance swimmer Diana Nyad from achieving her lifelong ambition of conquering the...
EU Adopts Historic Policy to Protect Marine Fisheries
In an outcome hailed by environmentalists, European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to overhaul the region’s troubled fisheries policy to end decades of overfishing.
The...
Aussies Petition Their Government, Secure Historic Marine Protection for Coral Sea
Pushed by a chorus of 486,900 citizens, the Australian government announced Thursday their intention to create the world’s largest marine reserve, a highly protected...
Fish-catching Trick May be Spreading Among Dolphins
Dolphins in one western Australian population have been observed holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake a fish...
Twitter Tries to Fill Dying Girl’s Bucket List
A 15-year-old girl from North England has been fighting cancer for four years and now strangers around the world are fighting to help her...
Thriving Coral Reefs Discovered in Puerto Rico
With the overall health of Puerto Rico's shallow coral reefs in decline, the recent discovery of abundant reef fish farther out brings hope that...
6000 Rare River Dolphins Found Off Bangladesh
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has discovered a huge population of rare dolphins in South Asia. Nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, which are related to...
Bush Creates Largest Marine Protection Zone in the World
With the stroke of a pen today, President Bush will designate three new areas in the Pacific as Marine National Monuments to create the...
Diving Into a New Smithsonian Era
The new Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History opened Saturday, the largest renovation in the museum’s century-long history and a transformation...
10 Tons of Fishing Gear Cleaned From Channel Islands Waters
Lost and abandoned underwater fishing gear can be dangerous to wildlife as well as people. Derelict nets in particular can entrap fish, sharks...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: #3 – Species Recovery
Environmentalists Heartened by Stunning Finds of Species, Coral, and Recovery of Many Endangered • Numerous hopeful stories in 2006 showed that endangered...
Top Ten Good News of 2006!
With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...
Stunning Finds of Fish and Coral
Scientists have discovered hugely diverse fish and coral populations thriving off Indonesia's Papua coastlines including dozens of new species like the "walking" shark that...