Good News for the Environment

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...

Indonesia’s forestry minister named the baby Badar, a Malay word with Arabic origin meaning “full moon.” The mother’s name, Bulan, also means “moon” in Indonesian.

A grassroots group of people across the political spectrum — No Big Bend Wall — is gaining momentum in the fight to keep a massive border wall project from moving forward.

The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.

The Tren Solar de la Quebrada travels through a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.

These simple one-room homes could be a new blueprint for scalable disaster housing.

Capturing wildlife to vaccinate them is difficult, particularly because the bird flu vaccination requires they be caught twice, for two doses.

Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopts new rules to enforce vessel monitoring system and to begin testing pop-up gear in state’s Dungeness crab fishery.

The new research followed male sea turtles, which often do not get the same attention as female nesting turtles.

The nonprofit Lion Landscapes uses trail cameras to incentivize villagers to earn “points” for spotting and saving local wildlife.

The Great Barrier Reef has again shown its remarkable ability to recover. But we can’t take this for granted.