Ravaged by bushfires and recent flooding, Australia is now getting power back, thanks to this philanthropist couple
Australia has been constantly in the news over the past few months – first due to the utterly devastating wildfires and lately, due to torrential downpour that helped tackle the bushfire crisis massively but also resulted in serious flooding across southern Australia. These twin disasters caused dozens of communities to go without power. However, now several tech companies have begun installing solar...
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This Indian police officer makes all the police stations under his district differently-abled friendly
Paschim Medinipur is one of the districts in east Indian state of West Bengal, and it has witnessed amazing change in the people’s perception of the police force, thanks to the untiring efforts of Superintendent of Police (SP) Dinesh Kumar. Kumar launched an initiative called the Sugam Police, which means ‘accessible police’, for the locals. Under it, ramps were constructed for the wheelchair-enabled in as many...
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This designer is working to build world’s first modern village that generates its own electricity and food in 100% sustainable loop
American architect James Ehrlich has been given a go-ahead by officials in the Netherlands to build an eco-village about 30 miles from Amsterdam. This village is going to be a modern neighborhood that would generate its own power using a closed loop system that would also recycle all the waste and generate all the food. Ehrlich is putting his own money on the line for his ambitious project. Ehrlich founded ReGen...
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Meet the tiny braveheart who saved his entire family from house fire
Noah Woods, a 5-year-old boy from Bartow County, Georgia, recently saved his entire family from a house fire that could’ve proved fatal for them, had it not been for his quick thinking and action. A few days ago, Noah woke up to find his bedroom on fire. Instead of panicking, the little boy sprung to action. He grabbed his 2-year-old sister and got out of the house through his bedroom window. After that,...
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Heartwarming story of an Indian woman who is transforming the lives of hundreds of homeless, abused and addicted kids
Hundreds of kids at the Sheoraphuli railway junction, which is 30 km away from a major metropolitan Indian city Kolkata, are living in deplorable conditions. Most are unable to afford even a single meal from the money they collect by begging. And so, they live on dendrite. Readily available in plastic tubes at any hardware shop, dendrite is an industrial glue used in the carpet industry. It is a hot favorite...
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Australian soldiers are using their rest periods to care for koalas injured in the catastrophic bushfires
The 9th Brigade of the Australian Army was extremely busy these past few months in bushfire refief work as hundreds of devastating bushfires raged across the country, especially in New South Wales and Queensland. Thankfully, heavy downpour has extinguished more than 30 of the region’s active bushfires—and officials say the downpour could put out the rest of the fires by the end of the week. So officers from the...
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Four kids lost during a blizzard in Alaska found alive – huddled together to protect the youngest!
Four young boys – Christopher Johnson, 14, Frank Johnson, 8, Ethan Camille, 7, and Trey Camille, 2 – were headed towards the dump near Nunam Iqua, a community on Alaska’s west coast on a snow-machine when a blinding snow storm hit the area, causing the kids to disappear. Thankfully, they were found by a search team more than 24 hours after they went missing. Bryan Simon and his team of search...
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Locals have removed over 25,000 kilos of waste from this Indian beach over the last 12 months
Kundapura is a small coastal town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The condition of the town’s Kodi beach was deplorable owing to the huge amount of waste that came from a river that passes the beach in its course and also from tourists and locals. In February last year, Bharat Bangera and his group of friends decided to brew a mass cleanliness movement to mop up all the mess on the beach in...
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Scientists develop a new way to recycle plant-based plastics multiple times without losing any properties
While most countries of the world are attempting to recycle their plastic waste, one of the major problems with recycling is that once done with the process, the resultant plastic is of a much degraded quality as compared to the original. For example, one cannot expect to recycle plastic bottles into new ones. They are therefore used for other lower-grade products such as park benches and traffic cones. Now,...
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Derrick Nnadi of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated win by picking up adoption fees at local shelter
Scores of homeless dogs at a Kansas shelter are all set to find new homes, thanks to Derrick Nnadi of the Kansas City Chiefs. The defensive lineman opted to celebrate his Super Bowl win by paying the adoption fees of all the adoptable dogs currently at KC Pet Project. The response from people looking to adopt a furry companion at the shelter has been very positive. “We had a huge line of people at our...
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