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Elvis the baby seal has left the boat!

An adorable rescued pinniped is released back into the wild after making a speedy recovery at Taronga Wildlife Hospital.




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'Before I Die': New Orleans' house is bucket list backdrop

An abandoned home in New Orleans is transformed into a interactive art installation where passersby are invited to pick up a piece of chalk and share what they'



  • Remodeling & Design

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A look back at the wild weather of 2011

To say 2011 has been a wild weather year would be a huge understatement. From tornadoes to floods to wildfires, weather records were set across the United State



  • Climate & Weather

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8 things you didn't know about wombats

We've rounded up some adorable wombat photos and some surprising facts about the wombat.




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Condensation-harvesting bamboo tower brings clean drinking water to Ethiopia

To help eliminate the perilous process of collecting potable water in Ethiopian villages, Italian architects design a water vapor-collecting tower.




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Plastic Bank: How to solve the plastic pollution problem and poverty at the same time

We all know there's too much plastic making its way into the environment; here's an innovative solution to a seemingly intractable problem.




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Saving the Indonesian peat forests, one basket at at time

The deforestation situation in Indonesia is not entirely bleak, thanks to the efforts of the Katingan Project.




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Meet Shigeru Ban, architect for the people

This year's Pritzker Prize winner, Shigeru Ban, brings sustainable, innovative architecture to disaster zones in the form of resilient paper-based structures.




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How researchers track the 'lost years' of baby sea turtles

Hoping to better protect loggerheads, scientists get creative in finding a way to track the years that baby turtles spend in the ocean.




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A (greener) life behind bars

The Sustainability in Prisons Project transforms prisoners’ lives while enriching the planet.




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Meet Boyan Slat, the garbage patch kid

The 20-year-old wunderkind's impossible dream of cleaning up ocean plastic is becoming a reality.




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Walmart: Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting

Watch this replay webcast of Walmart's Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting.




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From Bird Brain to 'Urban Birder'

David Lindo turns his awe for winged creatures into a passion for teaching Britain's urbanites to open their eyes to all the birds around them.




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The Barefoot Farmer grows more than food

Jeff Poppen champions the small family farm and a sense of community at his Long Hungry Creek Farm in Tennessee.




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'I Will Always Write Back': A life-changing promise

How a pen-pal relationship between altered two lives, inspired a book and continues to help others around the world.




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The most surprising question you can ask on a tribal hunt in the Amazon jungle

I briefly lived with hunter-gatherers in the rainforest, where a couple visiting tourists did something very unexpected.




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What's wrong with eating hot dogs, lunch meat and bacon?

Packed full of unhealthy nitrates, processed meats like hot dogs and bacon harbor health risks you should know about.




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Transforming global health supply chains through data visibility

Health systems in emerging markets have not realized the benefits of data visibility to global health supply-chain operations. To do so, health-system leaders will need to take four critical actions.



  • Public Sector Insights

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Dwight Eisenhower: Lessons from the ‘balancer in chief’

William I. Hitchcock, author of The Age of Eisenhower, explains how Dwight D. Eisenhower inspired his country and led Americans through times of uncertainty and radical change.




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I tried 5 food-based face masks, and here's how they worked for me

Ditch pricey, over-the-counter face creams for DIY masks that use ingredients you already have in your pantry.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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What environmental issues should President Obama focus on?

Vanessa offers the new president some unsolicited advice.




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How can I cut back on the cost and impact of my commute?

Vanessa explains how to cut back on the waste of commuting.




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How is eating meat bad for the environment?

Eating meat harms the environment as a result of large-scale, factory-style meat production, the modern practice of cramming huge numbers of animals together an



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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How can back-to-school be less wasteful?

Just because it's a new school year doesn't mean that you have to buy all new products.




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10 ways babies are really weird

They don't shed tears and won't remember having mustaches!



  • Babies & Pregnancy

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5 recipes for homemade baby food (and why you should make your own)

Making baby food at home is easier & more important than you think. Here are 5 homemade baby food recipes.



  • Babies & Pregnancy

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Itty-bitty NICU babies dress up for Halloween

Hospitalized infants in Kansas City are photographed wearing sweet costumes for Halloween.



  • Babies & Pregnancy

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Organic Gardening: Creating Natural Pest Barriers

Organic Gardening: Creating Natural Pest Barriers



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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CSR Hero Sharon Baker is Making Aflac a Greener Place

Baker puts her passion for environmentalism to work.




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Why you should consider eating the whole banana — skin and all

When we throw away banana peels, we throw away a lot of health benefits.




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Biodiesel powers Kid Rock's Badass Beer

Kid Rock is using a sustainable brewery to brew his new American Badass Beer.




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Fixing diesel's bad reputation with 50-mpg clean cars

Diesels were noisy, smelly, polluting and slow. They're not anymore. Clean diesel is a real alternative, with 650-mile range one big benefit.




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Battling Asian carp with swords and football helmets

Pitchforks? Water skis? When all else fails, these extreme fishermen go medieval on the tenacious invasive species.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Study reveals biochar as a strategy to fight global warming

Using agricultural waste to make biochar has the potential to reduce 12% of global CO2 emissions annually.



  • Research & Innovations

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Bakelite 2.0

A recent survey conducted by the European Bioplastics Association found that the bioplastics market is growing by 20 percent a year — and that’s good news o



  • Research & Innovations

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Scientists grow bacon from stem cells

Bacon shortages could be a think of fiction. A new technique that turns pig stem cells into strips of meat could offer a green alternative to the slaughterhouse



  • Research & Innovations

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Should we bioengineer superhumans that can better combat climate change?

Philosopher suggests that bioengineering people to be herbivores with small statures and cat-like eyes could help to save the planet.




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Bioluminescent art: Beautiful bacteria glow in the dark

Bioluminescent art blends science and creativity to create images that can only be seen in the dark.



  • Arts & Culture

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Could lights illuminated by bioluminescent bacteria replace electric lighting?

Imagine your city illuminated at night by glow stick-like lighting generated entirely from living organisms.



  • Research & Innovations

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Bacteria can be turned into living hard drives

Scientists can now add code to bacterial DNA, and the bacteria pass it on to the next generation.



  • Research & Innovations

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Common caterpillar found to eat plastic shopping bags

It could represent a biodegradable solution to the omnipresent pollution clogging our landfills.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Grandmother's sherry is making a comeback

The Spanish tipple is no longer just for tapas. This fortified, food-friendly wine is having a revival among cocktail enthusiasts.




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Does an empty baseball field really need outdoor lighting all night?

The International Dark-Sky Association has a few ideas to reduce light pollution from sports facilities.




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Renewable energy conference brings together incubators and ideas in Israel

Israel’s largest international green energy conference takes place this weekend in Eilat.




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Tesla's new Powerwall battery could be world-changing

Build enough Powerwall batteries and you can run the world on renewable resources.




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15 things Obama has done for the environment

As President Barack Obama nears the end of his second term, let's take a look at his final record on the environment, climate change and green policies.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Bacteria help solar panels beat cloudy days

Bacteria can help solar panels convert sunlight to energy, even on overcast days.




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From fat to fuel: Genetically modified bacteria could convert waste into energy

Plant waste has been seen as a possible source of sustainable biofuels, now modified E. coli would convert plant waste into fatty acids, and then into fuel.




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Atlanta to Appalachia: My unlikely journey from urban gridlock to country living

How embracing a serene, rural lifestyle has taught me to use a chainsaw, ride a pickup and get off my blood pressure medication.




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Giant squid babies caught for the first time ever

They might make for terrifying adults, but giant squid are actually kind of cute when they're babies.