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An influencer filled her pool with 50K pickles to break a world record. Then she did something even better — “Anyone that swims in his pool is just going to smell a little garlicky.” https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/serena-neel-pickle-pool-world-record

While enjoying a tour of Magnetic Island off the coast of Australia, the jet ski riders ended their outing early to help a turtle in need.

“Anyone that swims in his pool is just going to smell a little garlicky.”

Indigenous lands are crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. Research shows their health is a direct result of Indigenous stewardship.

As extreme heat reshapes air quality, the network of 227 monitors is expected to help identify localized pollution hot spots.

Chimpanzee sightings are a major attraction for any visitor to the park, but other animals, including one of the world’s largest scorpions and Africa’s largest and rarest owl, could also prove to be a draw for those looking for an adventure-filled experience.

The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed. With this move, 30% of French Polynesia’s waters will now be fully protected.

For the country's 250th anniversary, Smithsonian curators draw different kinds of maps that tell a story beyond state lines.

By exercising a little forethought, compassion and ingenuity, we humans can be creators and stewards of life (vs the destruction we tend to cause when motivated by fear and greed). #Rewilding #Ringtails

I love it when humans are in harmony with, and good stewards to the natural world around us! ♥️🐾🌲

The major wildlife corridor project includes 19 rope bridges, 24 underpasses, and two land bridges for local fauna.

Installed in 2021, local officials now say that there has been a “substantial reduction” in casualties for the endangered species.

The couple’s gift will lead to the erasure of medical debt for families starting in mid-July.

Deaths have dramatically declined since school-age girls in England started being offered the vaccine in 2008 — and it’s saved around 200 lives in England so far.

Globally, the loggerhead population has decreased by 47% over the past three generations.

The beautiful game has been inspiring some equally beautiful displays of community, humanity, and multiculturalism — and we’re not even out of the group stage yet.

A rare ringtail was seen passing through a 405-acre property in Ashland, Oregon.

The new community is in the process of being built, and will include 50 cottage homes for new residents.

Housing affordability is a top issue for many people in the U.S. — for good reason. In a rare show of overwhelming bipartisanship, Congress passed the largest bill to address the issue in a decade.

Colorado designed the Greenland Overpass specifically with elk in mind, since they’re common in the area and notoriously distrustful of underpasses and enclosed tunnels — the first three just safely crossed it.

In the 1970s there were no legal protections for LGBTQ workers outside of a handful of cities. If a company found out you were gay, it could fire you on the spot.

Colorado leads the nation in wildlife crossings with more than 100 structures.

After an interim ruling in 2023 recognized equal marriage — Nepal’s Supreme Court just made it official, providing certainty and security to LGBTQ+ couples in the country into the future.

Oh, you want a music festival? Name all-women

"We have always been a city that leads with our values," Mayor Daniel Lurie said.

Mayor Mike Coffman said he is “committed to making sure” his city’s programs “meet the needs of the area's homeless.” Now, he’s walking the walk.

Juno the leatherback sea turtle recently marked a new milestone for her species.

With the announcement of her new, all-women music festival called “Daisy Chain Fields,” Olivia Rodrigo is also continuing her legacy of funding reproductive rights.

The “stupid song” singer continues her legacy of funding reproductive rights.

The short-eared dogs of the Amazon Basin are notoriously hard to spot in the wild, but new trail camera footage is shedding light on the endangered species.

The Mayor of New York City has been clear about his vision for universal childcare and early education. Who is the inspiration behind his efforts?

One of the conservationists working to protect the species called the sighting “huge news.”

This is a massive milestone in women’s health. A new, first-of-its-kind study found that the HPV vaccine has brought the risk of cervical cancer death in young women “close to zero.”

After an interim ruling in 2023 recognized equal marriage — Nepal’s Supreme Court just made it official, providing certainty and security to LGBTQ+ couples in the country into the future.

There are an average of 1,270 reported wildlife-vehicle collisions every year in the state of Arizona — but the state’s ongoing investment in an intervention proven to be successful, wildlife overpasses, is changing things.

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Heating and cooling buildings consumes 35% of all the energy used in the United States each year. Electric-powered heat pumps could be revolutionary.

Bowser, a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was rescued from the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier recently. The operation was one of a growing number of rescues in areas where sea turtles and humans overlap.

A camera captured a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan using a specially built canopy bridge to cross a road in Sumatra.

It's all about celebrating the way food was wielded as a tool of resistance and a symbol of freedom during and after slavery.

The new project, over I-17, just south of Flagstaff, is projected to be completed by fall 2026.

Conservationists in Queensland, Australia “turned to mush upon seeing the images.”

Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” finale gag *did* cost CBS money — and the good joke is now also supporting a good cause.

Researchers were diving in Papua New Guinea when they discovered a strange new species in shallow waters.

Amid surging rent prices, some are opting for a unique alternative.

A nesting sea turtle shocked conservationists when it was spotted on a Florida beach during Sea Turtle Week.

In the 15 years following the Civil War, a total of 59 HBCUs had opened their doors to Black students.

The new hatchling, which will be named by the public, is the child of mother and father pancake tortoises Waffle and Maple.