Innovations
The mines that warm the town above them
Gateshead dug coal for two centuries. Now the flooded old tunnels warm the town, cleanly, from below.
Author
Nicole McMahon
Global Good News
The giants are coming home to Floreana
After 180 years, giant tortoises walk Floreana Island again, the first of twelve species being welcomed home.
Global Good News
The prize for the world beneath our feet
The Nobel of the environment just went to the scientist mapping the fungal internet under the forests.
Global Good News
The sleeping child wakes up
Guatemala calls its rarest lizard the niño dormido, the sleeping child. A zoo in the capital is giving it a future.
Global Good News
The butterflies that came back to the boy
A ten year old in Kobe wondered if his butterflies remembered him. The answer is now heading for a science journal.
Innovations
The nets that catch a cloud
In Chile's dry north, a farming community harvests its water straight out of the morning fog.
Global Good News
The towns that turned their lights off
Above the Warrumbungles the night sky is protected like a national park, because it is one.
Innovations
The Perth pair growing tomorrow's plastic in a seaweed tank
An ocean scientist and her cofounder ferment seaweed into little pearls that behave like plastic, then vanish like a leaf.
Sustainable Living
Ten minutes, shoes off
The newest research on feeling better is also the oldest advice in the world: go outside, take your shoes off, and stand on the earth for a little while.
Innovations
The seeds that think the lightning came
In Cairns, a Maiawali inventor and his cofounder wake seeds up with gentle electricity, the way storms have done for ten thousand years.
Global Good News
When the water comes back, this little duck knows first
The pink eared duck spends its life chasing rain across the continent. This year the rain fell, the wetlands filled, and the ducks arrived in their thousands.
Sustainable Living
The little docket that is leaving the till
The shiny paper receipt cannot be recycled and mostly is not read. An Australian inventor is retiring it, and you can help at any checkout.