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Cambridge researchers used LiDAR and AI to map 569 square kilometres of Cairngorms National Park, counting six million trees — including more than 2.65 million young ones. The findings offer a new window into a 200-year restoration effort.
Social innovator Ken Banks argues that listening, not decisiveness alone, drives lasting change. In a piece for Positive News, he reflects on three decades of work in conservation, international development and technology, and on the platform FrontlineSMS that grew out of it.
A Hollywood actor's spotlight on two inseparable shelter dogs at the Animal Rescue League of Boston led to an immediate adoption. Greg and Carley, a bonded chihuahua and golden retriever pair, now have a forever home.
A mother traveling alone with four children under seven on a 24-hour journey woke from a doze to see a stranger tucking a blanket around her sleeping five-year-old. Two decades later, the unguarded moment still stays with her.
A Lincolnshire golf course purchased by the National Trust in 2020 has been converted into a wetland nature reserve spanning the equivalent of 45 football fields, already hosting breeding avocets, oystercatchers, and little ringed plovers. The project highlights a growing push to make golf's vast land holdings work for wildlife.
Oliver Balch spent a weekend consuming only solutions-focused journalism for Positive News. He found the experiment harder than expected, learned the difference between good news and constructive reporting, and discovered a new question to ask about the world's problems.
A pay-per-picture initiative across nine villages in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province is giving residents a new income stream while protecting endangered birds and orangutans. The bottom-up conservation model rewards villagers for photographing or recording wildlife instead of hunting it.
Growers in southern France are cultivating bananas, papayas, and mangoes as rising temperatures make the region suitable for crops once shipped in from the tropics. One farmer in Ollioules tends roughly 20 tropical fruit varieties in her greenhouse, while an agronomist nearby trials 26 banana types.
After losing her job, Liz Tierney began baking roughly 100 cookies each weekend and leaving them in a Little Free Library near her home. The treats now disappear within minutes, drawing lines down the street and deepening her ties to the community.
Max Owobu, an 18-year-old high school senior from the Bronx, founded the Yenko Foundation to fund K-5 education for children in Ghana. The nonprofit has already sponsored 10 students, with plans to expand.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have pinpointed chemical compounds capable of safely driving honey bees away from crops that have been treated with pesticides. The discovery, led by biologist Anandasankar Ray, could help address the pesticide-driven decline of honey bee populations.
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced a $131.5 million enforcement action against DoorDash for violating local Delivery Worker Laws, with more than $115 million going directly to delivery workers and $16 million in civil penalties and costs.
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