Police Dog Enjoys Meaty Reward for Finding Missing Massachusetts Man: ‘Can’t hide his smile’
A Massachusetts community was delighting in the smile of their neighborhood community resource dog after he got a meaty reward for his good deed. In the town of Avon, a known dementia patient went missing, and Cruiser the golden retriever cruised right to his location, tracking and locating him in the woods behind a school. […]
Land Was Owned by Billionaires Who Didn’t Allow Access to National Monument – Now it’s Open
The largest private land conservation project in America recently took a huge step forward to its ultimate goal by acquiring a controversial, 22,000-acre property from recalcitrant owners. The private ranchland blocked a 3.8-mile access road to a large National Monument in Montana, but its acquisition by the American Prairie Reserve will soon give residents in […]
Bite-Proof Wetsuit Fabric Almost Entirely Prevents Shark Bite Flesh Wounds
Australian shark experts have tested four bite-resistant materials to assess their ability to reduce injuries and blood loss, and found that While internal and crushing injuries may still occur, bite-resistant wetsuits can now be added to the ‘toolkit’ of measures available to reduce shark-bite risk and resulting injuries, say researchers from Flinders University’s Southern Shark Ecology Group. […]
In Prisons Across Ohio, Inmates Find Meaning by Saving Orphaned and Injured Animals
In Ohio, across multiple state correctional facilities, inmates are rehabilitating themselves by rehabilitating others: specifically the most fragile and vulnerable of others: injured or orphaned animals. Tiny birds—victims of a fall from the nest, baby rabbits orphaned by the wheels of a Ford, or little opossums lost when their mother took off at the first […]
Soccer Team from George Clooney’s Holiday Town Donates Tournament Winnings to Flood Relief
The world-renowned beauty of Italy’s Lake Como has been turned into a disaster area after a rainstorm pummeled the eponymous city and surrounding towns. With tens of millions in property damage, the local soccer team—currently experiencing a fairytale season—announced ahead of their match on Wednesday night in the Italian Cup that all proceeds would be […]
Citizen Scientists’ Makeshift ‘Coffee Filter Arks’ Help Prevent These Sparrows Chicks from Drowning
This is a saltmarsh sparrow, an Endangered species of bird that builds its nest in its eponymous habitat. A collaboration of citizen scientists working in Jacob’s Point salt marsh in Rhode Island is attempting to save the animal—which they believe will go extinct by mid-century—from drowning in the marsh. In a state of nature untouched […]
112-Million-Year-Old Amber Samples Preserve a Snapshot of an Ancient Forest
In the blockbuster 1993 film Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s screenwriters tell the story of scientists who recover dinosaur DNA from a mosquito entombed in amber and use it to clone the animals back into existence. Today, a recent paleontological discovery comes to the very doorstep of that fictional tale, bringing much of the excitement, short of the […]
Rarest Monkeys Now Number Close to 2,000 Thanks to One Man’s Jane Goodall-like Passion
From the BBC comes the story of an intrepid and dedicated scientist who has spent decades working in China’s mountain forests in an effort to protect and understand one of the nation’s most amazing animals. The golden sub-nosed monkey is revered alongside the giant panda as “national treasures” of Chinese wildlife, yet this couldn’t protect […]
The Seine in Paris Now Cools 800 Buildings in the Summer: ‘People Are So Proud’
The world’s most romantic river also helps prevent residents from getting all hot and bothered, cooling their offices and homes through a heat transfer system. Currently, around 60 miles of piping channels water to and from the Seine in Paris, but it has nothing to do with plumbing. Rather, this network, which includes pumps and […]
Birth of UK’s Only Bonobo Baby Gives Fresh Hope for World’s Most Endangered Ape
Conservationists and zookeepers are celebrating our closest living relative giving birth to a healthy baby. Heart-tugging photos show the bonobo mother Yuli cradling her tiny newborn after it was born at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire last Thursday. Experts have hailed the birth as a ‘globally significant’ moment which could help save one of the world’s […]