Angola’s vast highland wetlands feed rivers that deliver freshwater to millions. They just gained global recognition that could help keep it that way.

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In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal...

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A very common source of annoyance for knitters is the large gaps that form at the underarm, where the sleeve and body stitches meet, or more generally at the corners of picked-up stitches. The most effective method I’ve found so far to eliminate these holes is as follows: Begin at the center underarm and knit up the underarm stitches. When you reach the body/sleeve junction, pick up two extra loops before the sleeve stitches: pick up the first loop from back to front, then the second from front to back.

The Dalmatian pelican, once hunted to extinction, could be reintroduced to wetlands in England.

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy waters. The speckled toothed whales—sometimes referred to as “unicorns of the ...

Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant kangaroo rat are recovering from near-extinction.

Tri-State and Platte River become the first utilities to challenge Trump’s emergency stay-open orders for coal plants, citing the cost to customers.

To save its citizens from floods, Kigali is betting big on wetland restoration.

The brown hairstreak butterfly is receiving a population boost as its habitat is left to grow wild.