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The first global political declaration on sea-level rise says an island state does not stop being a country because rising water makes its land uninhabitable.
New York City planted its most trees in a decade and prioritized neighborhoods where extreme heat hits hardest.
The final turbine is installed at Revolution Wind, a 704-megawatt offshore project built to serve Rhode Island and Connecticut.
HALO Trust has concluded humanitarian mine clearance in Kosovo, 27 years after the war left fields, roads and villages contaminated.
Europe's largest economy published a sector-by-sector plan to leave coal, oil and gas behind, only the third country to do so.
UBC divers found the first new sea spider species described in the Salish Sea in almost a century. One has red eyes and fuzzy-looking legs.
THE MEADOW GREW BACK.
Ten traditional chain moorings were replaced with eco-moorings that move with the tide instead of scraping circles through the seabed. Five years later, the damaged patches had shrunk by an average 93.6%.
Book Bunk and Nairobi City County restored Eastlands and Kaloleni public libraries as free civic hubs. Book Bunk reports patronage up more than 240%.
DirectHop uses a tiny motor and three folding legs to make controlled, repeated jumps. The prototype can clear a standard stair and twitch itself upright after a fall.
During one May morning count, Cycling Scotland recorded more bikes than cars on Leith Walk from 8 to 9 a.m.—a first for that route, not a claim about the whole city.
NINETY-NINE, IN SQUASH.
Sunnyfields Farm unveiled a giant mosaic portrait of Sir David Attenborough assembled from pumpkins, breaking its own world record for the largest pumpkin mosaic.
A WALL THAT BREATHES.
A 200-foot eroded bank at Sebastian Inlet State Park got 22 honeycomb reef arches and up to 90 red mangroves instead of a wall — finished September 10.
THE CLEANING CREW HAS SHELLS.
About 1,500 rare native freshwater mussels — including two endangered species — were released into the Paint Rock River on August 25 after years of streambank repair.
NOBODY REINTRODUCED IT.
Mongabay reports a giant anteater turned up in an Argentine reserve on its own, decades after the species vanished locally — a case for letting recovering habitat do the work.
THE PATIENT KNOCKED.
A brown pelican tangled in fishing line, with a treble hook in its wing and cactus spines in its foot, repeatedly tapped on NOAA’s Panama City Laboratory door. Biologists freed it in about 10 minutes, and it flew away.
FIFTY YEARS. NO DOG-MEDIATED HUMAN CASES.
Chile became the first South American country validated by WHO for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies as a public-health problem after more than five decades without a dog-mediated human case.
Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people…
684,735 new connections. Around 3.56 million more people with access.
THE LETTUCE LIVES UPSTAIRS.
The brewery put a lettuce farm upstairs. In Skagway, that actually works.
THE DINOSAUR LEFT RECEIPTS.
Four footprints. Twenty-three feet. One 66.5-million-year-old walk.
THE SPACE UNDER THE PANELS GOT BUSY.
Panels up. Wildflowers in. Insects followed.
CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. POTHOLES: 0.
Two hundred thousand holes became not-holes.
DONE BY HAND.
Ten days, wooden dams, no machinery. Pools are already forming.
DAMS OUT. SALMON IN.
Four dams gone. 21,052 adult Chinook counted upstream across two seasons. Eighty-eight percent of their documented historic range reoccupied — early, and encouraging.
EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.
An eight-lesson learn-to-ride curriculum is now in nearly 2,000 US elementary schools. Balance bikes first, pedals when you are ready, gym class credit either way.