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9 Species That Returned From Extinction in 2010
A few lost species thought to be extinct have made miraculous reappearances in 2010, like the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, an earthworm that smells...
Six Amazing Happy Endings Thanks to Facebook (Good News Network Exclusive)
We've lots of media stories featuring the wonders of Facebook. But these amazing outcomes will cheer even the surliest of social media critics.
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As Principal, Fiery Redhead Flips Failing School
A fiery redhead is making a big difference at a struggling school in Texas. Once full of low-performing students, the school now scores top...
Painting Wind Turbines Purple Will Save Wildlife
Environmentalists have often criticized wind turbines on the grounds that they harm wildlife such as birds and bats who are caught in the blades....
Woman Recruits Facebook Friends to Save 7000 Gulf Coast Hermit Crabs
In the months since the BP oil spill, Leanne Sarco, a ranger at the wildlife preserve in the Gulf of Mexico along the fragile...
Librarians Assemble to Read the Qur’an on Steps of Chicago Building
The American Library Association and librarians across the country have moved the Qur’an to the top of their list for titles celebrated during their...
Clean River Crusader is Named Hardest Working Man in America (Video)
The winner of Mitchum's Hardest Working Man in America contest was awarded $100,000 last month for his labor of love: hauling tires, trash -...
Britain’s Annual Swan Count on River Thames Squawks with Pageantry, Conservation
Clad in red-and-white outfits emblazoned with the royal livery, palace boatmen embarked on their annual five-day journey up the River Thames to count the...
Recovery of Persian Gulf From Oil Spill Should Encourage US
It was the worst oil spill ever. And it happened in the Persian Gulf, fewer than 20 years ago. What clues does the 1991...
McCartney Honored With Gershwin Prize at White House Concert
Paul McCartney landed in Washington, DC this week where he will be honored by fellow artists and awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song...
Volunteers Heed Cry for Help in Wake of Oil Spill
Thanks, in part, to a million dollar donation from BP last week, watermen and their families are getting the help they need in Gulf...
Bald Eagles are Hatching Once Again at Channel Islands
There haven't been so many bald eagle chicks on the Channel Islands in 50 years — since chemicals contaminated their food supply and destroyed...
Pets Improve a French Prison
The daily relationship between prisoners and their small pets is having a profound effect on a prison in Strasbourg, France. The Animal Affinity...
Anne Frank’s Tree, Now Dying, Still Inspires Hope and New Life
Three times in Anne Frank's widely read diary, the young Holocaust victim wrote about a tree. She could see it from the attic window...
Ninja slugs, Color-changing frogs and Other Weird New Species Discovered
123 new species were discovered in Borneo over the last few years, including a frog with no lungs, a “ninja”...
40 Victories Since the First Earth Day: 40th Anniversary Timeline
Since the first Earth Day 40 years ago, America has become a cleaner, safer, more beautiful place with less pollution, more pristine rivers, fewer...
Green Roof of UK School First to Be Designated As Nature Preserve
A green roof at a UK primary school in Sheffield is the first to be designated as a nature reserve after a rare bird...
Bald Eagles Flourish, as Tourists Flock to See Hundreds at a Time
Since their comeback from the brink of extinction in the 1960's, bald eagles have been flocking to this park every winter, attracting bird-watchers by...
Mushroom Man Hunts for Clue to Fungai Cure-All
More than 60 percent of all medicinal drugs are derived from the natural world. Mycologist Paul Stamets is on a...
Wildlife Rescuers Save Frostbitten Pelicans
A flock of brown pelicans hung around the Chesapeake Bay well past the time they were supposed to fly south for the winter....