This archive covers environmental progress from across the globe — habitat recoveries, clean-energy advances, pollution rollbacks, and policy wins that show ecosystems and communities adapting and improving. Each story is rooted in evidence, focused on what’s working, and drawn from sources doing the actual work.
Now, people who damage a river can get taken to court by the government-appointed National River Conservation Commission. They’ll be tried as if they’d harmed a living entity.
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are needed for the planting and bedding in of the four billion saplings.
Researchers and volunteers have cataloged more than 12,200 nests left by loggerheads, a threatened species protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Madhya Pradesh created a new Guinness World Record after 1.5 million volunteers planted more than 66 million tree saplings within half a day along the Narmada river.
An area nearly twice the size of England will become a “blue belt” of protected waters after the government created 41 new marine conservation zones.
The move would result in the city’s first food forest and the largest of its kind in the country.
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado founded Instituto Terra, a small organization that has since planted 4 million saplings and has brought the forest back from the dead.
Voters in Toledo, Ohio voted overwhelmingly to approve the so-called Lake Erie Bill Of Rights, a declaration that the lake has the legal right to be protected from harm from human activity.
DyeCoo uses a machine that dyes fabrics with pressurized CO2, which allows dyes to quickly dissolve and penetrate the textile — all without the use of water or chemicals.
