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Photo credit: British Ecological Society – Spreading coffee pulp over barren land lead to rapid forest growth.

Conservation, Nature

Researchers dumped coffee waste into a forest and couldn’t believe what it looked like 2 years later

Tod Perry

9/30/2026
John Harkes coaching a payer at the Summer of '94 community event.

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Culture, Skills

The best coaches know the child in front of them matters more than the score in front of them.

Kylee Van Dillen

10/6/2026
Photo credit: “https://glasshalffull.co/our-story”>Glass Half Full press kit & Haprer Sunday/pexels.comFranziska Trautmann and Max Steitz of Glass Half Full in Louisiana and bottles waiting to be recycled.

Conservation, Nature

New Orleans was tossing bottles into landfills, so students upcycled 14 million lbs of glass into coastal sand

Patrick Hamilton

9/29/2026
Photo credit: d Rumeysa Yilmaz | Pexels – A sweet story of the cat distribution system at work.

Nature, Pets

He made a teeny house for a stray cat visitor, and it turned into an adorable kitty village

Jacalyn Wetzel

9/29/2026
TheVallyD/X & Retro CCN/YouTubeAmputee (left), Ginger cat scratching at post (right)

Nature, Pets

Genius amputee makes outlandish prosthetic legs, but his cat scratching post may be best of all

Heather Wake

9/28/2026
Photo credit: Canva Photos – Can outsider beavers save this dried up river?

Animals, Nature

Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. 6 years later, here are the results.

Evan Porter

9/27/2026
Photo credit: Lovelihood/Flickr – One of the world's longest running experiments will run another nearly 80 years.

Natural Wonder, Nature

In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied.

Evan Porter

9/27/2026
Lagotto romagnolo puppy.

Nature, Pets

Adopted puppy takes first walk with new family and digs up treasure worth nearly $8,000

Heather Wake

9/24/2026
Photo credit: Jake Banasik via Unsplash – Representative image of a Golden Retriever and his toy.

Nature, Pets

A burglar broke in, ate their yogurt, and took a nap. Their golden retriever brought him a toy.

Adam Albright-Hanna

9/23/2026
Photo credit: GoFundMe – Meet Pip, the foster cat with an Achilles injury who still loves to run.

Nature, Pets

They said her injured foster cat would need amputation, but she refuses to give up on him

Heather Wake

9/23/2026
Photo credit: antoni_halim via Canva – Representative image of a floating island.

Natural Wonder, Nature

Officials thought this floating island was an AI hoax. Then it moved 19 miles.

Adam Albright-Hanna

9/22/2026
Photo credit: Photo courtesy of Kerry Hyde – Do cat buttholes touch every surface they sit on? Science answers.

Nature, Pets

6th grader’s science fair project answers age-old question: ‘Do cat buttholes touch everything?’

Jacalyn Wetzel

9/22/2026
Photo credit: Lovelihood/Flickr – One of the world's longest running experiments will run another nearly 80 years.

Natural Wonder, Nature

In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied.

Evan Porter

9/22/2026
Photo credit: andrew brown via Unsplash – Representative image of an older Beagle.

Nature, Pets

A man lost track of his late dad’s beagle for 10 years. Then a Florida rescue scanned her microchip.

Adam Albright-Hanna

9/21/2026
Photo credit: @letsgoripley/TikTok, used with permission – What a smart doggo: Australian Shepherd Ripley uses talk buttons to warn family of a pending disaster.

Nature, Pets

Australian Shepherd gets creative with ‘talk buttons’ to warn family of impending disaster

Heather Wake

9/21/2026
Photo credit: Photo by Richard Burlton on Unsplash – A Golden Retriever puppy side-eyes the camera.

Nature, Pets

Experts rank the most ‘loyal dog breeds’ and it’s stirring a debate among canine lovers

Cecily Knobler

9/20/2026

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