7 Unbelievable Environmental Stories from Every Continent

Photo caption: When polar bears like this mom and cub wander into Churchill, a small town in a remote northern corner of Canada, they might just end up in “polar bear jail.” Photo credit: Marko Dimitrijevic via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by April White. Atlas Obscura – April 19, 2024.

In celebration of Earth Day, we went digging into the Atlas Obscura archives to find some of the world’s most surprising stories. In the era of climate change, those stories can be scary, but they can also be hopeful. From the beaches of Sri Lanka to the fields of Ethiopia to the wetlands of Brazil, humans are working together to protect and repair the Earth. […]

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