A clever new way to turn seawater into drinking water
A team at the University of Rochester has found a gentler way to desalinate the sea, powered by sunlight and leaving no toxic brine behind.
The Karajarri people just became guardians of their own sea country
Australia's first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area covers 237,489 hectares of Kimberley coast and ocean.
A California beach is going wild again, and it is still yours
Santa Monica has rewilded eight acres of its famous sands into living dunes, and a threatened shorebird is back.
London welcomes the storks home after 600 years
For the first time in roughly six centuries, white storks are set to fly over London again, part of a bright plan to bring nature back into the city.
In Ukraine, the wild horses are coming back
Near the Black Sea, a team is breathing life back into old farmland, welcoming home wild horses, deer and kulan, and this spring, a rare foal.
Illinois makes rewilding the law
Illinois has become the first US state to write rewilding into law, giving nature room to return across the prairie state.
The quiet joy of rewilding your garden
Mow a little less and plant a few natives, and any backyard can draw around seventy percent more bees and butterflies.
Plastic Free July: small swaps, big wave
An Australian born movement now reaching millions, one easy swap at a time. Perfect timing to give it a go this month.
The world's rarest wombat has a new joey
A trail camera in outback Queensland has captured precious cargo: one of only 450 northern hairy nosed wombats, with a joey in her pouch.
Leopards are making a comeback in West Africa
In Benin's Pendjari National Park, leopard numbers have more than tripled in six years. Researchers call it a win against long odds.
Sea turtles are bouncing back
Decades of protection are paying off. In Indonesia's Kei Islands, turtle and nest harvesting has fallen 85%, and populations are rebounding.
Rio's 'empty forest' is filling with life again
Conservationists are returning the animals a forest needs to thrive: agoutis, tortoises, howler monkeys, and macaws not seen there for 200 years.
A new ocean sanctuary the size of France
French Polynesia granted its highest level of protection to 520,000 km² of ocean, where no mining, trawling or industrial fishing is allowed.
Europe hits a clean energy tipping point
For the first time, wind and solar generated more of the EU's electricity than fossil fuels, a milestone reached years ahead of expectations.
£1bn for community owned clean energy
The UK's new Local Power Plan is its biggest ever public investment in locally owned wind and solar, so profits flow straight back to neighbourhoods.
A turning point for the world's mangroves
Coastal communities and conservationists are restoring mangrove forests, vital nurseries for sea life and powerful natural carbon stores.