In a UK first, a new forest is set to be grown with fertilized nutrients recovered from urine collected from music festival toilets. The woodland in Wales will feature 4,500 native British trees, like beech, grown with fertilizer made with pee from the…
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in ov…
A Georgia pre-teen saved her older brothers from potentially perishing in a fire that consumed the left side of the family’s two-story home. She’s been hailed by the family and community as a hero, who saved the most important things the fa…
For decades, 98% of transportation-related funding and infrastructure went to the 6% of people in the Philippines who own cars. Now after years of research, advocacy, and lobbying, a national coalition has led a transformation in public transit and civ…
In November 2024, an exceptional shipwreck was discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It contained an exquisitely preserved cachet of pottery, weapons, tools, and components for horse-drawn transport that date back 2,000 years. Archae…
America doffs its hat to one of its greatest modern outdoorsmen: the first among our countrymen to conquer the two highest peaks in the world: Mount Everest in 1963, and K2 in 1978. Jim Whittaker was born in Washington state on February 10th, 1929. His…
