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A baby two-fingered sloth, too young to survive alone, was spotted clinging to a three-fingered sloth in Costa Rica. With no mother in sight, The Sloth Institute intervened to save her.
Tangled in fishing lines and tethered to a crab trap, a 170-pound loggerhead sea turtle was rescued in August 2025. "Molly" faced a long recovery at the Turtle Hospital.
Solar and wind power just passed a "positive tipping point" in 2025, becoming cheaper than fossil fuels globally. New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency confirms this shift.
Cuba's biodiversity is under siege, but a dedicated network of scientists, communities, and activists are fighting back to protect endangered species.
Your final mark on Earth could be an environmental disaster. Conventional burials waste lumber, plastic, steel, and toxic embalming fluids, polluting soil and water.
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Blast fishing and habitat loss threaten eastern Indonesia's marine ecosystems. Now, island communities are reviving ancient customs to protect turtles, mangroves, and their seas.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife celebrates 50 years of reintroducing otters! Once common, these river otters vanished by the 1900s due to trapping and pollution.
Reforestation could save Javan leopards. A new study suggests strategic forest restoration, linking fragmented patches, offers a rare path to balance Java's rapid development with conserving this endangered big cat.
Olympic National Park welcomes five new mules—Murl, Cutti, Pip, Checkers, and Gopher—ready to tackle the busy tourist season. These vital animals maintain 600 miles of trails across one million acres.
A sea turtle, Amelie, was found severely wounded off Port St. Lucie, Florida. Now, she's part of a unique group of amputee sea turtles monitored by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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Bangladesh just passed a landmark law! The Haor and Wetlands Conservation Act, 2026, bans wetland encroachment, mining, poisoning aquatic life, and obstructing water flow. Violators face strict penalties.
Erin Brockovich: more than a movie. Her fight for environmental justice began long before the 2000 biopic, securing a historic $333M settlement against PG&E for toxic chromium-6 in 1996.
India's vulnerable hard-ground swamp deer, once confined to a single reserve, now has a new breeding population! Forest authorities successfully expanded their habitat, a critical win for this species.
Two 17-year-olds from Kenya won the Africa Earth Prize for their low-cost maize and coconut-based vehicle exhaust filter. They developed "HewaSafi" after seeing loved ones suffer from air pollution.
Swim Shady and Paddles, two loggerhead sea turtles, were near death when rescued off Juno Beach. Now, they're fighting for their lives at Florida's Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
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High above Big Bear Lake, Sandy and Luna, 2026 eaglets of internet-famous bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, now see almost as well as adults, tracking distant squirrels and planes.
Leopards face a silent crisis. While not globally endangered, Amur, Arabian, and West African leopards are critically threatened. Across South Asia, habitat loss in populated areas makes all leopards vulnerable.
Plants and animals degrade, but plastics are practically indestructible. Scientists are now asking: What if plastics were alive?
After 30+ years of blocked climate talks, Santa Marta, Colombia just hosted a historic conference on ending fossil fuel dependency. It's a momentous step forward.
A quiet comeback: European wildcats Jonáš and Tonka, the first spotted in Czech Republic's Lusatian Mountains in nearly a century, signal hope for this critically endangered species.
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On April 1, Texas’ Fort Worth Zoo welcomed a 285-pound baby into the world. It wasn’t an April Fool’s joke—the newborn was a healthy male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) calf, and he represents the newest member of a four-generation Fort Worth elephant family. Elephants are currently the largest te...
Beavers are quietly transforming rivers into powerful natural carbon traps. These ecosystem engineers are building dams that capture and store significant amounts of carbon.
India's leopard population is thriving! A 2024 report estimates 12,616 to 15,132 individuals, a "healthy number" according to biologist Thomas Sharp.
500 billion disposable coffee cups are used annually, their plastic linings releasing microplastics into your drink and polluting the planet. Notpla's seaweed-coated cups offer a sustainable solution.
In Benin, a Vodun deity called Zangbéto protects over 500 hectares of mangroves. This spiritual practice, forbidding wood cutting under curse, has preserved these vital ecosystems for 10 years.
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This striking European roller breeds across Europe and Central Asia. Known to birdwatchers and citizen scientists, this migratory bird spends winters in Southern Africa.
EVs slash air pollution. A new Lancet study, using satellite data, confirms climate scientists' long-held predictions, measuring the undeniable impact of electric vehicles.
A stranded sea turtle on Lennox Head Beach in January 2025 sparked a rescue. Marine biologists found "Kalani," an adult green sea turtle, lethargic and underweight, signaling long-term illness.
Good news for Earth: Tropical forest loss plummeted 36% in 2025! This hopeful data from Global Forest Watch offers a rare win for environmentalists, though challenges remain.
A one-in-a-million white bison calf just arrived at Iowa's Neal Smith Refuge! Most bison are born reddish-brown, making this birth a truly rare event.
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Five months after Jane Goodall's 2025 passing, her grandson, Merlin Van Lawick, made his first trip to Paris for ChangeNOW 2026. Born and raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, he now carries on her legacy.
Johnny Appleseed didn't just plant trees for apples; he created vital shade. Two centuries later, cities swelter, wishing they'd followed his lead as rising temperatures make urban life stifling.
Upper Swat communities are fighting back against new hydropower projects. They fear the devastating impact these developments will have on their river and way of life.
This week, ancient artifacts returned home, demolished buildings became new ones, and oyster shells revolutionized concrete. Humanity is finding new purpose in old things.
Jamaica's most imperiled butterfly, the turquoise and black Jamaican kite swallowtail, faces extinction. The USFWS proposed listing this unique, fast-flying species as endangered under the ESA.
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Climate anxiety got you down? A Dutch nonprofit is fighting back, developing river tech to dramatically cut ocean plastic within decades.
Italian researchers are transforming abandoned buildings into new construction materials. The SARCOS project creates sustainable, high-quality floor slabs from demolition debris.
Saving an endangered butterfly unfolds in an unlikely place: a Washington state women's prison greenhouse. Inmates meticulously tend to tiny eggs and larvae, crucial to the Taylor's checkerspot's survival.
From London, Ontario to Panama's shores: A Canadian mother of two found her calling protecting sea turtles in 2020. Now, she's relaxing in an overwater bungalow.
Tibetans pioneered China's institutionalized co-management model for ecological conservation in the Sanjiangyuan region. Their local solutions offer a powerful example of climate action.