Volunteers, staff, and contractors removing derelict fencing – credit, American Prairie The largest private land conservation project in America passed a milestone of rewilding the Great Plains last year. The nonprofit American Prairie recently celebrated the new year with a report that it had successfully removed the 100th mile of derelict barbed wire fencing on … Read more
Histopathological image of multiple myoloma – credit, CC 3.0. via Wikimedia Commons In a pair of groundbreaking studies, scientists replicated a time-consuming, laboratory-based, cancer therapy within myeloma patients’ own bodies. If standardized, such an advancement would allow for one of the most successful non-chemo cancer treatments to be done both faster and cheaper. CAR T-cell … Read more
Bor, South Sudan – credit, CC 4.0. BY-SA Leroy Playpus In South Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, a flood of rare destructive power swept an already water-stressed city into poverty before acting as the catalyst for a transformative humanitarian success. Development funding from the Netherlands and South Korea has made a big difference … Read more
Olive Ridley sea turtles nesting on Costa Rican beach – Credit: NOAA Fisheries / Michael Jensen Sea turtles continue rebounding all over the world, with a recent report from NPR claiming that 1 million turtle nests have been counted along the western coastline of India, a number 10-times as high as 20 years ago. Olive … Read more
A recycling depot operated by RetuRO, Romania’s plastic return system organizer – credit Eduard Voicu / RetuRO If you had to guess where in the EU you would find the most sophisticated and effective recycling system for beverage containers, how long before you’d say Romania? Beating out Scandinavia, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, the Romanian … Read more
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population of Egypt, receiving a commendation from Dr. Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director for WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region – credit WHO Egypt has become the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health concern, building on a steady string of triumphs over tropical … Read more
A camera trap photo of the leopard – supplied by SANparks For an astonishing 170 years, there hasn’t been a leopard sighting on the western coast of South Africa. That recently changed when South Africa National Parks (SANparks) published a camera trap photograph of a leopard in West Coast NP, showing how the elusive predator … Read more