Good News for the Environment

Sustainable stories of progress for the planet

A close up of two inventions: a WiFi router and a smoke detector made out of grayish recyclable paper.

Electronic waste is out of control. So this university student invented a WiFi router out of dissolvable paper

This recyclable router could revolutionize e-waste. We're still working on simplifying Wi-Fi passwords though.

A glass bottle full of an orange liquid sits in a lab, undergoing a bioreactor system

Scientists create a meat-free protein — with just hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide — to fight world hunger

Made in a bioreactor system, the protein and nutrient-rich yeast could change food systems for good.

A young man with brown hair and a brown mustache stands in a lush, green forest, holding up a handheld pinecone-shaped device called Pyri

Students win Dyson award for wildfire-detecting 'pinecone' device

The groundbreaking device was designed by four students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

Two loaves of sourdough bread on a kitchen counter.

Droughts are decimating crops, but 'climate blend' grain is more resilient — and the bread it makes is delicious

This bread is built with climate change in mind. And it’s “rich” and “buttery” to boot.

Four park rangers guide a rhino through a field

Saving rhinos: Rewilding mission planned for entire herd from breeding farm

African Parks, which manages national parks in several countries across the continent, plans to rewild all 2,000 southern white rhinos from Platinum Rhino, winding up John Hume’s controversial intensive rhino breeding project.

A photo collage of a huge lithium battery standing in a lake, a vaccine liquid being tested, solar panels in a field, and an aerial view of the Klamath River

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A group of teachers and students work together on a rooftop, analyzing solar panels

Solar power in US schools has quadrupled in the last decade, new report finds

Tax incentives and federal investments have made solar power much more accessible for schools.

An aerial view of the Torres Strait Islands.

A new ‘beaky’ headed species discovered in Australia

It was barely bigger than a AA battery in size.

The Santa Cruz River in Arizona prior to being filled with effluent water

Scientists bring Arizona river, biodiversity back from the brink — by adding sewage water

Strategically adding effluent to the waterway has reintroduced an estimated 200 species to the local ecosystem, new research finds.

A person holding a leaf blower and cleaning leaves on a flight of stairs

How one man’s battle against gas leaf blowers sparked a national movement

More than 100 US cities have banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Not only do gas-powered leaf blowers create extreme noise pollution — the most powerful can produce sounds of up to 100 decibels of low-frequency noise.

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Buried kelp: seaweed carried to the deep sea stores more carbon than we thought

New studies show coastal vegetation such as seaweed forests are more important to natural carbon storage than we thought.