Good News for the Environment

Sustainable stories of progress for the planet

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Good News This Week: January 11, 2025 - Pets, Meals, & Medical Debts

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Online marketplace matches 20,000 donors with LA fire victims to donate clothes, other essentials

A secondhand clothing marketplace based in LA is matching donors to fire victims based on size, gender, and age.

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The Great Salt Lake could disappear in 5 years. This teen is using hydrogels to save it little by little

When it comes to saving the lake, locals say "all the darts and arrows point back to agriculture."

Jake Harvath, a man in his twenties with long brown hair and a long beard, sits atop a mustang. Behind him is another wild horse, trotting through the desert.

Man returns from world's longest horseback ride across US, raises awareness for wild mustang crisis

Jake Harvath documented his whirlwind journey on social media, in hopes of encouraging people to adopt wild horses.

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Good News This Week: December 21, 2024 - Seals, Otters, & Books

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Two photos side by side of an African Penguin chick sitting in a small white basket at the Denver Zoo. In the first photo, the penguin looks at the camera head-on. In the second phot, it is looking to the left.

Endangered African penguin chick makes 'remarkable' recovery in zoo ICU: 'We're especially grateful for this win'

A new arrival at the Denver Zoo has made a miraculous recovery, signaling a small beacon of hope for the Critically Endangered species.

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Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is rewilding South America's borders

Leading the national park development efforts at Tompkins Conservation, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins has a new plan to protect wildlife in South America.

A herd of countless goats walks and grazes along a path in Colorado

1,200 goats hired to mitigate wildfires in Colorado: 'High-tech recycle machines'

The crew provides benefits beyond grazing vegetation, like improving soil health, germinating seeds, and more.

A gray seal pup with a white fluffy coat lays on the shore with two adult gray seals

Gray seal pups on the rise in this remote location, all thanks to 'lack of human disturbance'

Thanks to a lack of human activity, a colony of gray seals has already welcomed 80 pups this breeding season.

53 rare frogs go on international journey to save species from fatal fungus, extinction

The Darwin’s frogs were transported to and quarantined at the London Zoo in a global effort to save the species.

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MIT lab designs biodegradable material to replace microplastics in beauty products

The researchers are on their way to replacing microbeads found in soaps and cleansers.

Dozens of bison stand on a snowy prairie in Yellowstone National Park

2,000-year-old poop samples from Yellowstone offer clues to climate change, wildlife management

A new study confirms the historical ecology of Yellowstone National Park and points to the potential for changes in wildlife management.