The Cool Down8/27/2026
Canadian woman's 52-year-old air conditioner wins contest for oldest working unit
"If you look after something, it will look after you."
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The Cool Down8/27/2026
Washington State expands low-cost heat pump program across 4 counties with $11.1 million
"These upgrades will also lower energy bills, improving affordability while also promoting resilience to the impacts of extreme weather."
The Cool Down8/27/2026
UK heat pump owners call cooling 'a revelation' as 95F days drop to 70F indoors
Testing has also shown that using heat pumps for cooling can work in real-world conditions.
Mongabay8/27/2026
Costa Rica to require wildlife crossings for roads when they impact fauna
Costa Rican lawmakers unanimously voted to require wildlife crossings for new and existing road infrastructure when evidence shows the infrastructure interrupts natural connectivity and threatens wildlife safety. The measure, approved in August 2026, will help wildlife avoid being struck by cars while crossing roads and connect habitat, the regulation notes. Once signed into law by […]
The Cool Down8/27/2026
California dozer crews show how bulldozers help keep 95% of wildfires to 10 acres or less
"Every resource works efficiently in the first moments of a fire to keep it small."
Matador Network8/27/2026
Rafting the Nahanni: Wild Canyons, Virginia Falls, and a River Worth Protecting
Rafting the Nahanni is the adventure of a lifetime.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
Why this custom laundry room was planned around the dryer vent, not the cabinets
Laundry room design decisions are easy to overlook, yet each one can influence day-to-day comfort, maintenance, and utility bills.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
San Antonio calf dubbed 'Moodini' escapes pasture, bolts from Walmart parking lot into drainage tunnel
"This bull calf apparently had little regard for municipal law."
Good News Network8/27/2026
Man Saves Baby Otter with CPR: ‘A life’s a life, no matter what it is’
It takes a village to raise a child they say. Well a story comes to us now from Alert Bay in British Columbia, where it took a village to save one. It was a retired logger and fisherman named Gordon Mellish who first rescued three baby otters, having been told by a neighbor on the […] The post Man Saves Baby Otter with CPR: ‘A life’s a life, no matter what it is’ appeared first on Good News Network.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
Two injured harbor seal pups released off Canadian coast after 3-month rehab
At intake on May 29, Jimmy Two-Shoes weighed 18.5 pounds and still had remnants of his umbilical cord.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
Nearly 14-foot king cobra rescued after family finds it hiding in their courtyard
These encounters are becoming seemingly common in India.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
After a tense hour, Assam rescuers pull highly venomous monocled cobra from tea-estate bungalow
Many conflicts are not random acts of aggression but the result of shrinking habitat.
Good News Network8/27/2026
Pakistan Combines River Dolphin Sanctuaries Along the Indus River, Protecting 250 Miles of Habitat
Pakistan has created a wildlife sanctuary along 123 miles of the Indus River where it’s estimated 440 of these extraordinary freshwater cetaceans live. The endangered Indus River Dolphin has seen large declines in the amount of river it’s able to access as Pakistan’s economic growth drove river infrastructure projects like dams and irrigation canals. Some […] The post Pakistan Combines River Dolphin Sanctuaries Along the Indus River, Protecting 250 Miles of Habitat appeared first on Good News Network.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
Blue mistflower can host 25 monarchs at once in Texas, native plant expert says
"From September through December, the amount of butterflies this thing attracts is honestly comical."
Ynet Animals8/27/2026
"Is it a dog or a horse?": Meet Puddington, the giant that turns heads
Keren Rosenthal dreamed since childhood of raising an Irish Wolfhound. To fulfill the dream she moved to a bigger house, bought a special vehicle, and brought a puppy from Slovakia. Today, now that he's one year old, Puddington already attracts attention everywhere he goes. Watch the interview on the Ynet studio.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
Emaciated dog rescued from California parking lot finds forever home in a 'foster fail'
"I don't know for sure, but my hunch is that he, at some point, had a family because he was trained."
The Cool Down8/27/2026
At New Mexico's lone bear rehab, orphaned cubs learn to forage without their mothers
When bears repeatedly return to homes, livestock, or other human spaces, the consequences can be severe.
The Cool Down8/27/2026
UK police call reptile experts after snake hitches ride on patrol car
"I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing."
The Cool Down8/27/2026
This 1897 UK terrace has little insulation, but a heat pump still kept it warm through winter
"This house is exactly the sort of property people are often told isn’t suitable for a heat pump."
Mongabay8/27/2026
A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves
In a coastal village on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an oil palm and pineapple grower named Harisyah is fighting rapid coastal erosion. The region’s northern coastline, which sits on carbon-rich tropical peat soils, is losing ground to the sea at a rate of more than 6 meters (20 feet) annually. Researchers attribute the retreat […]