A new designation encourages people to think about their cities differently.

Read more about National Park Cities here 

Caretakers in California are dressing up to help a young bear get ready to face the wilderness.

Read more about the bear and its caretakers here 

Engineering, science, and mathematics have all been leveraged to design less-gross urinals, that's good news!

Read more about the urinal designs here  

From the archive, if you like to listen to nature sounds like rain to relax, you can do that and help the planet at the same time.

Read more about the project here 

A giant, glassy building in Chicago has upgraded it's windows to make them safer for birds flying on by. 

Read more about the glass and the birds here 

Ronan, a 15yr old sea lion has great rhythm and it's raising questions about music and what it means to be musical.

Read more about the research here 

Another update from Voyager 1 and 2 out in interstellar space. A 20-year-old bug needed to get figured out- and fast!

Read more about the repair effort here

From the archive, avocados get a high-tech new label and it could save a lot of plastic! Also, the avocado producer making these laser-etched avocados has also recently started making natural dyes from the avocado pits that would normally get composted or chucked- that's good news too!

Read more about the avocado dye here

Guerrilla gardening is a pretty fun act of rebellion that I can totally get behind.

Learn more about guerrilla gardening here 

From the archive, an international competition to see who can space out... best? The most? The... farthest?

There is a competition coming up! If you're in the area and you space out competitively, let me know- I'd love to hear about it. 

Read more about the competition here