Innovations
The tree seed that scrubs plastic from drinking water
Crush a seed, clean a glass: nature's own water filter just aced its exam.
Author
Nicole McMahon
Sustainable Living
Doctors are prescribing birdsong, and the wilder the better
The newest medicine on the scripts pad is a walk somewhere green and alive.
Sustainable Living
The solar panel that hangs off the balcony rail
No roof? No worries. Three million German homes are plugging straight into the sun.
Sustainable Living
The cafes where broken things get a second chance
Bring in the wobbly chair or the lamp that will not switch on, and watch it come back to life.
Innovations
The solar panel that turns plastic rubbish into clean fuel
Sunlight goes in, old plastic and water go in, and clean fuel comes out.
Global Good News
Paris made its river swimmable again
For the second summer running, Parisians are diving into the Seine.
Global Good News
The Simpson Desert returns to the care of its first people
An area two thirds the size of Tasmania is now Australia's newest Indigenous Protected Area.
Global Good News
The day the logging stopped for nine emu eggs
Fewer than fifty coastal emus remain in northern NSW. Then a forestry officer found a nest.
Global Good News
The kākāpō just had the best breeding season in its history
More than one hundred chicks for a parrot that once nearly vanished from the world.
Global Good News
The largest animals on Earth are quietly coming back
Off the coast of southern Africa, blue whales and fin whales are being seen again.
Global Good News
The forest that grew back while nobody was looking
New England lost most of its trees. Then nature was simply left alone.
Innovations
The building material you can grow in a paddock
Klara Marosszeky has spent a quarter of a century proving hemp can house us.