Beavers Take 2 Days to Build Dams The Government Had Been Planning for 7 Years
A family of European beavers has become an overnight sensation in the Czech Republic after taking just two days to build a series of dams that the Czech Government had been struggling to build for 7 years. A project to restore water areas in the Brdy Nature Park began in 2018, but authorities had taken […]
Mongolian Man Nurtures Green Oasis in the Middle of the Gobi Desert
An 82-year-old Mongolian man has dedicated the last three decades of his life to nurturing a green oasis in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Baraaduuz Demchig is often mentioned as living proof that man can fight desertification. His 16-hectare oasis rises up defiantly from the barren Gobi Desert, with no other plant life visible […]
Social Media Is Killing Thailand’s Loneliest Tree
Thailand’s “loneliest tree”, a solitary tree growing on a rocky islet only a few meters in diameter, is being seriously threatened by hoards of tourists desperate to get a selfie with it. The small patch of land located just off the country’s eastern coast, in Trat Province, has been dubbed ‘Koh Khai Hua Roh’ because […]
Turkish Man Credited for Turning Barren Hill into Thriving Forest
Hikmet Kaya, a retired forest technician from Turkey, is being praised as the main driving force behind an impressive ecological achievement – turning a barren hill in Sinop city into a green oasis of million trees. During his 24-year tenure as Head of Afforestation at Boyabat Forestry Operations Department in Sinop’s Boyabat district, Hikmet Kaya […]
China’s Anti-Desertification Poster Family Has Been Fighting the Gobi Desert for 22 Years
Wang Tianchang and his family moved into the Gobi Desert 22 years ago, at a time when most people were running away from the encroaching wasteland. The Wangs have been fighting the desert ever since, becoming a symbol of China’s anti-desertification campaign. Desertification is one of China’s most serious environmental problems. The great Gobi Desert […]
The Desert Healer – Man Spends Two Decades Creating Green Oasis in Middle of Cold Desert
Anand Dhawaj Negi, a retired bureaucrat turned desert farmer, spent over two decades of his life turning the cold wastes of northern India’s Himachal Pradesh into a vibrant oasis. In 1977, the Indian Government kickstarted an ambitious program to mitigate the adverse effects of desertification in the Asian country’s cold and hot deserts. A. D. […]
Huge Sinkholes Are Swallowing Up Turkey’s Farmland
Hundreds of new sinkholes have been reported in Turkey’s agriculturally-focused Konya Province since the start of the year, almost double the number registered last year, and apparently it’s yet another man-made problem. Konya Provine, located in the eponymous Konya Plain, has always been known as Turkey’s breadbasket or green silo, because of the vast sea […]
Retired Couple Have Been Fighting the Desert for Almost Two Decades
A retired elderly couple has been fighting the desertification of their home in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the last 19 years by planting hundreds of hectares of drought-resistant plants. Seventy-year-old Tububatu and his wife Taoshengchagan live in a village on the edge of Badain Jaran, China’s third-largest desert, and they’ve been spending […]
Cosmetics Company in Hot Water After Its Paper Bottle Turns Out to Be Plastic
South Korean beauty brand Innisfree has attracted a lot of criticism after a bottle labeled as being made of paper turned out to be plastic simply wrapped in thin cardboard. Innisfree, a company that specializes in naturally-inspired beauty products, apparently didn’t expect anyone to actually check if the bottle for its face serum was actually […]
Eco-Warrior Spends 24 Years Turning Barren Hills Into Lush Green Forest
Once called a madman and laughed at by members of his community, an Indonesian man is now being hailed as a hero after spending a quarter of a century covering 250 hectares of barren hillsides around his home with banyan and ficus trees. The story of Sadiman, the Indonesian man who singlehandedly brought a forest […]
Indian Man Turns Barren Land Into 10,000-Tree Orchard
An Indian man who started planting trees in a barren, sand-filled field 15 years ago is now being praised for transforming the wasteland into a 10,000-tree orchard. Satyendra Gautam Manjhi, a simple man from the small village of Imaliyachak, in the Indian state of Bihar, claims he was inspired to start planting trees after being […]
This Mural Absorbs as Much Pollution as 780 Trees
Who would have though that simply painting a mural on the side of a building would one day have the same pollution-cleaning effect as planting 780 trees? Organized by the sportswear company Converse as part of their City-Forests campaign, the latest mural in the Polish city of Warsaw is not only an aesthetically pleasing artwork, […]
Idaho Forest Area Looks Like a Chessboard from Space
Idaho’s natural environment is famous for many things, including breathtaking beauty and fascinating wildlife, but perfect geometry isn’t among them. That’s why this photo of a forest area along Priest River taken from the International Space Station has been getting a lot of attention online. In January of 2017, astronauts aboard the International Space Station […]
Indonesia’s Real-Life Spiderman Fights Littering and Plastic Pollution
After struggling to convince members of his community to join him in making their streets and beaches cleaner by picking up trash, an Indonesian man put on a superhero outfit in hopes of becoming more convincing. Rudi Hartono, a cafe worker from Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi, had long been struggling to persuade residents of his small […]
Thousands of Birds Found Dead Near Indian Lake And No One Knows What Killed Them
Wildlife experts in India are trying to make sens of the mysterious deaths of thousands of birds near the country’s largest inland lake. While the reported death toll is currently around 2,000, locals claimed that it could reach 5,000, as carcasses allegedly cover an area stretching from 12 to 15 km around the lake. Sambhar […]