Good News for the Environment

Sustainable stories of progress for the planet

Aerial view of a large solar panel farm with rows of dark photovoltaic panels arranged in parallel lines across flat terrain, separated by light-colored access roads.

Solar just eclipsed all other electricity sources for the first time ever in Utah

The state used to run on coal, relying on it for as much as 78 percent of its power a decade ago. But now renewables are surging.

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The nation's first 'nature library' just opened. Bird watching kits and snowshoes are available for checkout

Books are still available to check out, but the Anythink Nature Library is also home to items and programming all focused on getting outdoors.

The first confirmed photographic evidence of the Eurasian lynx in Sikkim. Courtesy of Forest & Environment Department, Sikkim, and WWF-India.

Trail cameras capture rare photo of an elusive lynx in the Himalayas: 'First confirmed evidence'

The sighting challenges the perception that high-altitude rangelands are empty and barren, and even suggests a full predator-prey system.

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Louisiana is sinking. So this business is using the state's glass bottles to restore the coastline

Roughly a football field of Louisiana is lost to the sea every hour. Glass Half Full is slowing the erosion down.

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Amid Spokane fires, local bootmaker turns headquarters into refuge for firefighters, distributes new shoes for free

As fires burn across the Pacific Northwest, one local business is doing its part to help frontline workers.

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As climate change worsens flooding, some places are becoming 'sponge cities'

Across the continental U.S., intense single-day precipitation events are growing more frequent, fueled by warming air that can hold increasing levels of moisture.

Aerial view of a blue and yellow basketball court with multiple hoops surrounded by brick apartment buildings, railroad tracks, and trees in an urban neighborhood with a city skyline in the distance.

These new NYC basketball courts double as massive sponges that mitigate flooding

The courts can hold 330,000 gallons of water, half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

Cross-stitch embroidery on light blue denim fabric showing a pattern of small crosses in white thread on the upper section and dark navy thread on the lower section, with a wooden needle, thread spool and tan thread visible on a wooden surface.

Visible mending: Why you should give your clothes a second life — and show off the repairs

Extending a garment’s life by just nine more months can reduce its carbon, water, and waste footprints by up to 20%.

A golden-crowned sifaka with a tan-colored head and black face sits on a tree branch surrounded by green leaves. A circular inset photo in the upper right shows a man, Leonardo DiCaprio, in a brown shirt.

Leonardo DiCaprio launches effort to bring 100 of the world's most endangered species back from the brink

DiCaprio’s Re:Wild is joining with the Bezos Earth Fund to recover critically endangered species across the globe.

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GoFundMe launches hub of verified Spokane wildfire relief fundraisers

Firefighters from eastern Washington and around the country have been responding to contain the fires since they began on Saturday.

A small dark-colored salamander or newt on wet sandy ground, with a prominent dark eye and smooth skin glistening with moisture.

A small New Hampshire city is building tunnels just for salamanders. They're already saving lives

In the neighboring state of Vermont, salamander crossings constructed in 2015 have reduced the number of amphibian deaths at that site by 80%.