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Most CO2 From Australia’s Megafires Has Been Offset by Algal Blooms Formed By Ash That Settled in the Ocean
When 715 million metric tons of carbon dioxide was coughed up into the atmosphere from the massive 2019-20 wildfires in Australia, scientists feared global...
Firefighters Have Been Winning the Battle To Protect Sequoia’s Giant Trees – Using Foil Blankets (LOOK)
Expert firefighting, contingency planning, and gallons upon gallons of water mean that the stands of giant sequoia trees in California's Sierra Nevada mountains appear...
Old Irish Goats Return to Hills of Dublin After a Century to Join Firefighting Brigade –And They’re Loving It
After the peninsula on Howth's Head caught fire last year, pouring clouds of black smoke over the financial district of Ireland's fair capital, city...
New Plant-based Biodegradable N95 Masks Close the Recycling Loop with Free Return of Used Ones
A company that GNN began supporting in 2017 when they were making fashion-forward scarves that filter the air at the level of N95 or...
Quick-Thinking Teen Rushes to Save People Trapped In Burning Building, Inspired by Her Favorite Show
A hero schoolgirl who saved people trapped in a burning apartment raised the alarm after being inspired by a TV show about the emergency...
PG&E Says It Will Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines to Reduce California Fire Risk
To help prevent sparking California wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced a major new initiative to bury 10,000 miles of power lines...
Never Give Up! Terrier Lost For 290 Days After Vacation is Found Thanks to Social Media
You’re on vacation and somehow, your family dog goes missing. You search and you pray and then you search some more. As the days...
More Americans Now Consider Themselves to be ‘Thriving’ Than at Any Point in 13 Years: Gallop
Despite hardships from Covid, drought, heatwaves, wildfires, and resurgent inflation, three in five Americans say they are pretty happy with their lot, according to...
Teen Invents Clever Fire Extinguisher to Save Your Home When You’re Away – and He’s Donating All the Profits
A kid moved away from his friends and the familiarity of New Jersey to California, then immediately grabbed a local problem by the scruff...
Teens Raise Thousands for Their Graduation Trip Abroad, Then Donate it to the Community Instead
If you had the choice of seeing the world by going on a trip or bettering the world by staying home and focusing your...
Strangers Track Down Writer Who Launched Message in a Bottle Nearly a Century Ago
Turn back the clock to 1926. Imagine yourself a teenager, your whole life ahead of you, shining with possibility. It’s your birthday. As a...
The Area of Forests Regrown Since 2000 Covers the Size of France, Potentially Absorbing a Full Year of U.S. Emissions
The naturalist John Muir once said, in regards to the passage of the law that protected Yosemite Valley, that as a result "every pine...
Chernobyl Guards Have Befriended Abandoned Dogs, Feeding Them and Bringing Medical Care
In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, guards watching for human trespassers are befriending and even caring for the descendants of dogs abandoned when tens of...
Guy Fieri’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund Has Raised Almost $25 Million for Struggling Workers
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri is known for his spiky bleached hair, a love of barbecue, and doing nice things. When California wildfires hit communities...
Biodegradable Algae Solar Panels Clean The Air While Growing Green Energy
What can generate clean energy, biomass for fertilizers, convert CO2 into oxygen, and be used in space? Algae.
Pursuing this incredible organism's potential is young...
This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection
In the country's oldest science fair, 17-year old high schooler Dasia Taylor submitted a surgical suture that changes colors to warn of possible infections.
This...
Just One Day After Completing CPR Training, a Teen Saves Her Friend’s Life Using Procedure She’d Just Learned
Even though CPR is one of the most important lessons we can learn, it’s also something we hope we’ll never have to use. Can...
Tree Corps Has A Green Job For You: Planting the ‘Healing Power’ of Trees in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Have you ever noticed the lack of trees in some inner cities?
City neighborhoods with more wealth tend to have more trees, but that may...
Teen Collects 30,000 Pairs of Shoes to Donate ‘Dignity’ to LA Homeless
For children raised in the Jewish faith, a bar or bat mitzvah is the celebration of the symbolic passage into adulthood. While at age...
Wombats Hailed as Heroes for Digging Down Under, Revealing Water Well During Drought
In New South Wales, local wombats are helping dozens of other species find water as the country sizzles under severe drought.
The cuddly-looking animals invaded...