Every serving. No expiration date.
THE CHURCH AND MOSQUE NEXT DOOR KEEP GIVING BLOOD TOGETHER
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
7,500 ACRES JUST SWITCHED SIDES
An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.
653 FROGS JUST GOT THEIR MOUNTAINS BACK
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
ONE WEIRD BIRD HELPED BUILD 19 NATURE RESERVES
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
THE WHEELCHAIR STAYS ON SHORE. THE SAILOR DOESN’T
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
WE DRAINED THE SWAMP. NOW WE’RE UN-DRAINING IT
A 23-square-mile tract of drained North Carolina peatland is being rewetted, replanted and restored to hold water, reduce fire risk, rebuild habitat and stop releasing so much stored carbon. Sometimes progress is admitting the ditch was a bad idea.
THE DEER HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE NOW
Washington’s I-90 Snoqualmie Pass wildlife overcrossing recorded its 10,000th successful animal crossing in July. Add 11 undercrossings and the project is nearing 40,000 recorded crossings since 2014. Apparently the elk were just waiting for civil engineering.
THE WORLD’S WEIRDEST PARROT REFUSED TO GO EXTINCT
New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō population has reached 325, after a record 90 chicks joined the official count this season. The recovery program began in 1995 with just 51 birds. Extremely round bird: still here.
100 RESTAURANTS SAID: PAY WHAT YOU CAN
A one-day idea from Mexico City restaurant Masala y Maíz grew into a global event with 100 restaurants in 14 countries signed on, while staff kept their normal wages and tips. The radical business innovation: trust people.
THE HUNTERS SWITCHED TEAMS
In Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, former hunters are using the tracking skills they once used to hunt wildlife to find snares and help stop poaching instead. Redemption arc: operational.
CRUSH WENT HOME. EVERYONE CRIED
Crush, a loggerhead found cold-stunned and nearly lifeless on a Jersey beach in January, spent months in rehabilitation before being flown to the Azores, fitted with a satellite tag, and released back into the Atlantic. Good turtle. Good humans. Everybody go home.
THE WOMEN TOOK THE WHOLE PODIUM
At Colorado’s Aspen Backcountry Marathon, Brier Youngfleish won the race outright — and women finished first, second and third overall. The overall podium was all women. That’s the whole post.
THE LAUNDROMAT HAS A LIBRARY NOW
Laundromats are becoming tiny literacy hubs, with children’s books and family reading spaces turning wash-cycle downtime into reading time. Apparently the spin cycle comes with a library card now.