2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (488+ words) A big Swiss family has invented Europe's first all-electric, solar-assisted tractor, and is now selling the vehicle in 5 countries. The Kn'sel Family lives in the canton of Schwyz, where patriarch and father of 4, Sepp Kn'sel, has been building tractors for…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (578+ words) Colorado wildlife authorities have introduced a plan to reintroduce the wolverine, one of the largest members of the weasel family, back into the state where it's been absent for a century. Hunted to extinction, small populations of this solitary scavenger…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (541+ words) 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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (603+ words) Drought is affecting the Great Hungarian Plain like never before, but a team of concerned citizens have hatched a clever plan to address it in the short term. It's arguable what the Eastern European country is more famous for, its…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (225+ words) Having been called "Britain's Loneliest Sheep," and later the "World's Most Famous Sheep," Fiona is now pregnant with twins 2 years after her harrowing rescue. GNN reported in 2023 that rural Scotsmen were planning a daring, cliffside extraction of a sheep that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (713+ words) Ancient Indian stepwells are being restored to modern water storage facilities to help cure modern water shortages. Recently, an Indian environmentalist and editor was invited to share his incredible work restoring hundreds of natural and man-made water sources all across…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (747+ words) Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave where they used the bones of prey animals rather than soft soil. The groundbreaking discovery was made in a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (577+ words) Hope and opportunity are blossoming on the South Side of Chicago where a man and his wife have used flowers to help poor communities turn over a new leaf. Running two nonprofits, Southside Blooms and Chicago Eco House, Quilen Blackwell…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (500+ words) An English football team has replaced the beef patties in the stadium hamburgers with wild British venison, a change that's proving popular with the fans, and better for the environment. Some forms of cattle ranching produce significant greenhouse gas emissions…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (729+ words) Danish researchers have found a molecular switch that lets plants partner with nitrogen-fixing bacteria instead of fighting them, opening the way to self-fertilizing cereal crops like wheat and barley. Their new research highlights an important biological clue that could help…...