Wrexham: Book-loving boy reads to care home residents (www.bbc.com)
A book-loving five-year-old has brought joy to care home residents by reading his favourite stories to them....
Angst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged (apnews.com)
Why a rare image of one of Malaysia’s last tigers is giving conservationists hope (www.cnn.com)
No turning back: The largest dam removal in U.S. history begins (www.kpbs.org)
The largest dam removal in U.S. history entered a critical phase this week, with the lowering of dammed reservoirs on the Klamath River....
A new start after 60: I was a secretary – until I stumbled upon an amazing story I had to film (www.theguardian.com)
Frances Harper had never used a video camera before. But at the age of 60, lying in the bath, she heard a story that changed her life...
An endangered river dolphin finds an unlikely savior: fisherfolk (www.kpbs.org)
An unlikely citizen scientist is helping to save an endangered dolphin that lives in Pakistan’s Indus River. He’s a fisherman who cannot read or write....
Animal shelter in Pennsylvania empty for first time in 47 years (www.theguardian.com)
Just in time for Christmas, Adams county SPCA adopts out 598 animals and reunites 125 with their owners...
5 wolves released in Colorado as part of reintroduction plan (www.nbcnews.com)
Somewhere on a remote mountainside in Colorado’s Rockies, a latch flipped on a crate and a wolf bounded out, heading toward the tree line. Then it stopped short....
Reno Is Beating the Odds in Solving Homelessness (www.wsj.com)
The “Biggest Little City in the World” is earning a new distinction: one of the few cities in the West to get large numbers of homeless off its streets....
As California’s redwoods recover from fire, an astonishing fact emerges (www.sfchronicle.com)
Raging wildfires in 2020 transformed Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County from a towering forested cathedral into a standing boneyard with some of the oldest trees on the planet seemingly burned beyond survival....
Jobs, not jail: A judge was sick of sending kids to prison, so he found a better way (www.usatoday.com)
Superior Court Judge John Phillips remembers the day 23 years ago like it was yesterday....
Dominica creates world’s first marine protected area for sperm whales (www.theguardian.com)
The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of Earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale....
New toothpaste may reduce allergic reactions to peanuts in adults (www.nbcnews.com)
Scientists have developed a new toothpaste that shows potential to prevent severe allergic reactions in adults with peanut allergies....
Hedgehog’s spine, anteater’s snout: Long-lost mammal rediscovered in Indonesia (www.cnn.com)
Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of mammal described as having the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole, in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains more than 60 years after it was last recorded....
Toddlers are put to work spreading cheer at Japanese nursing home (www.nbcnews.com)
Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do....
US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer (www.theguardian.com)
Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’...
Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature (www.cnn.com)
Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is good for biodiversity....
'Happy news' as endangered Sumatran rhino, the smallest and hairiest species, is born in Indonesia (www.abc.net.au)
An endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, the smallest and hairiest of the five extant rhino species, was born in Indonesia last week in a conservation area, the country’s government said on Monday....
