Now that its traffic-banishing shuttle system has gone electric, Zion Canyon is quieter, cleaner and a more welcoming home for wildlife ...

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Instead of letting hygiene products go to the landfill, several organizations collect and upcycle them, then give them to those in need ...

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Ross Mitchell is a traveling salesman of sorts. He spends up to two months a year on the road, driving a van thousands of miles across Australia, taking in the country’s changing landscapes, from its ...

In a farming region where most crops get shipped elsewhere, a growing group of farmers is cultivating produce that makes it to local plates ...

As beekeeper Mosad Al-Humairi watched the truck carrying 48 of his beehives lurch to one side, its right wheels sinking dangerously in the muddy road and its top tilting towards a drop fewer than two ...

When Stockholm’s Traffic Office conducted a general assessment of street traffic in the Swedish capital in 2001, it came to the shocking conclusion that two-thirds of all trees in the city center were ...

Just like clockwork, when feeding time arrives in the late morning at West Blean and Thornden Woods Nature Reserve, a group of trees begins to rustle in the distance. Shortly afterwards, the enormous ...

Professor Jones also attributes changes in public opinion to helping ease urban river restoration. “We used to turn our backs on rivers,” he says. “But as people have seen the improvements, they have ...

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The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters and ...