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Brown Pelican Soars off US Endangered List
After 40 years on the brink of extinction, the brown pelican has fully recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and...
Sesame Street Celebrates 40 Years (w/ Video)
Featuring colorful Muppet characters created by Jim Henson, Sesame Street celebrates its 40 anniversary as a pioneer of educational television....
Fanged Frog, 162 Other New Species Found in Mekong
A gecko with orange eyes, a bird that would rather walk, and a fanged frog that eats birds are among 163 new species discovered...
US Cracks Down on Mountaintop Coal-mine Permits
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it will put the brakes on 79 pending permits for mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachia because they...
Elephant Whisperer Saves the Baghdad Zoo in Wartime
In 2003 while the US armed forces were invading the Iraqi capital, a Zululand conservationist undertook a wartime rescue of the Baghdad Zoo and...
New Russian Arctic Park to Protect Key Polar Bear Habitat
Russia will create a new 3.7 million acre park in the Arctic, a central area for the Barents and Kara Sea polar bear...
Alaska’s Rat Island Finally Rat-Free After 229 Years
Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local...
Sturgeon Return to Spawn in Detroit River Thanks to Artificial Reef
For the first time in almost 40 years lake sturgeon have spawned in the Detroit River, thanks to an international reef construction effort completed...
Vast Reserve to Protect Prince Edward Islands and its Penguins
South Africa’s declaration to establish one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area’s around its Prince Edward Islands, is a marine conservation achievement of...
53 Wind Projects Awarded $8.5M, Includes Environmental Impact Research
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu last week announced a list of 53 wind energy projects that will receive up to $8.5...
Disney Joins Forces with The Nature Conservancy to Plant 2.7 Million Trees
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has arranged with The Nature Conservancy to plant 2.7 million trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the...
183 Projects Funded for Fish and Wildlife
From the Lower Mississippi River Delta to the North Carolina coast, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will undertake 183 construction projects focused...
Special Report: The Best News for Planet Earth in Decades
I asked one question to leading environmentalists who are usually keen to point out what is wrong with the environment: What is...
Encouraging Signs for Osprey
After the population of osprey in Massachusetts plummeted to 12 pairs in the 1960s, the majestic bird began a slow recovery starting...
Twitter Philanthropy: Microbloggers Raise Quarter Million Dollars for Good Cause
Changing the landscape of modern philanthropy, the first annual Twestival, organized on the social network Twitter, captured the imagination and donations of 10,000 Twitterers...
Ten New Amphibian Species Discovered in Colombia
Ten new species of amphibians -- including three kinds of poison dart frogs and three transparent-skinned glass frogs -- have been discovered in the...
‘Comeback’ Forests Rich in Biodiversity, Say Scientists
Tropical forests that have regrown after deforestation are proving more significant havens of biodiversity than previously thought, scientists said last week. A...
Tropical Rainforests are Regrowing
Two scientists reported at a Smithsonian symposium that the future of tropical forests may not be as bleak as some conservation experts warn. Some...
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...
More than 1000 New Species Discovered in Southeast Asia in a Decade
Over a thousand new species have been discovered in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia in just the last decade, according to a...