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Stop tilling, weeding and fertilizing; add compost, microbes and worms instead

Scientists say France is on the verge of “ecological catastrophe” as birds disappear at breathtaking rates

A thousand-year-old concoction of onion, garlic, wine and cow stomach bile could hold the key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs, experts say

The northern white rhino is essentially extinct, with the death of the last male of the species

With only two females left and the last male now gone, the only chance left for survival of the species is artificial reproduction using “genetic material” collected from the male.

Sudan, the last male of his species, died in Kenya on March 19.

He was 45, which is very old in rhino years.

He was suffering from a severe leg infection and other age-related complications, when vets decided to euthanize him:

Sudan was captured in the wild when he was 2, and sent to live most of his life at a zoo in the Czech Republic.

He spent the last years his life at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya with two northern white rhino females.

“The thinking was that in a place closely resembling their homeland, they would thrive. Northern white rhinos used to be found in an area spanning Uganda, Chad, southwestern Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” writes Eyder Peralta for NPR.

“Some 2,000 existed in 1960, according to the World Wildlife Fund, but war and the poaching that funded the fighting drove them to extinction in the wild.”

Unless humans make major changes, the amount of plastic polluting the world’s oceans is expected to triple within a decade, a new UK government report warns.

Actress plants a backyard forest where her dead loved ones can live on and “communicate with each other”

Every time a love one dies, British actress Judi Dench plants a tree in her backyard as a living memorial a forest dedicated to those close to her who have passed.

Cate Blanchett proudly announced she and Sandra Bullock paid top dollar for collagen boosting facials made using the stolen foreskins of baby boys

Ever question why the ancient barbaric practice of circumcision still happens to half the baby boys born in America, while it’s been done away with in most of the rest of the world?

Starbucks deceives customers into thinking they are recycling, but their “paper” cups are lined with plastic, so almost all of them end up in landfills

In 2008, Starbucks pledged to develop a 100-percent recyclable, biodegradable cup. Ten years later the company still hasn’t delivered, but quietly allows consumers to believe it has.

Taking a knife to an infant’s genitals could soon get you 6 years in prison in Iceland

Iceland is on the verge of becoming the first country in the world to criminalize male circumcision.

Wearing your baby facing away from you causes stress, hip dysplasia and spinal injury, parenting expert warns

Parents are overstimulating, “terrifying”  and injuring their babies when they wear them in forward-facing chest carriers, parenting author and professor Dr. Cathrine Fowler says.