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What progress we achieve when every day is Earth Day
Fasten your seat belts! This is an extravaganza of hopeful headlines and eco-solutions news worth celebrating from around the world.
 • Amanda Royal
The ecologist who dared love Yosemite's frogs
Once called the "antichrist of trout," Roland Knapp has traversed the High Sierra for 30 years to save its native frog. Now, birds, snakes, and bears…
 • Amanda Royal
Unpaving paradise: Tahoe tears up motel to restore floodplain
What 30 X 30 looks like in action. State agency demolishes a motel and restaurant to bring water and life back to a meadow. (Photos best viewed on a…
 • Amanda Royal
Hopeful headlines: Froggy romance, Earth's rewilding milestone, Scottish wee forests, and beavers
And don't forget SUN Day, September 21
 • Amanda Royal
Tahoe's sandhill cranes show wetland restoration is working
The region spent $3 billion in four decades on its environment. Sandhill cranes returned after a 100-year absence.
 • Amanda Royal
How one woman and a tiny ocean refuge helped sea otters escape extinction
From "extinct" to "maximum carrying capacity," a staunch mayor and her 11-acre refuge for abalone changed the trajectory of a species that once dwindled…
 • Amanda Royal
This is how you save a river: A lawsuit, a streamkeeper and 80 tons of gravel
A college community decided a dried creek filled with wrecked cars should instead be home to salmon, trout, beavers, eagles and bears.
 • Amanda Royal
Hopeful headlines: Saving rivers, wetlands, sturgeon, gorillas, butterflies, puffins, bees and clean energy
Humans dam it like beavers; the environment logs court wins; sturgeon rebound on the East Coast; four gorillas make it back to the wild; a tiny…
 • Amanda Royal
Lost salmon turn wild in restored stream
Plus, hopeful headlines on renewable energy, frogs, sea lions, fish, big trees and rivers from around the globe.
 • Amanda Royal
Bring down the dams!
California’s Eel River will soon flow free. We can fix past mistakes and revive wetlands and rivers. Shall we have a dam, dike and culvert-dismantling…
 • Amanda Royal
The ecologist who dared love Yosemite's frogs
Once called the "antichrist of trout," Roland Knapp has traversed the High Sierra for 30 years to save its native frog. Now, birds, snakes and bears are…
 • Amanda Royal
Turning toward the storm in 2025
Earth Hope year-in-review: Condors, wildfire, rivers, sea otters, bison, conservation voters and pocket forests. Plus, bobcats ... because bobcats…
 • Amanda Royal
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