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FIVE LEFT. STILL HERE.

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The bird that once had five left just won Bird of the Year.

Karure black robins fell to five birds in 1980. Decades of conservation brought them back to around 350 adults — and on September 21 the species won New Zealand’s 2026 Bird of the Year.

SOURCEForest & Bird
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THE PATIENT KNOCKED.

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An injured pelican knocked on a NOAA lab door for help.

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.

SOURCENOAA Fisheries
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FIFTY YEARS. NO DOG-MEDIATED HUMAN CASES.

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Chile just got WHO validation for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies.

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.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people…

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Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people to electricity in one year.

684,735 new connections. Around 3.56 million more people with access.

SOURCEAfrican Development Bank
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184 CHICKS. NEW RECORD.

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The Great Lakes just had their best piping plover season in 40 years.

99 pairs. 184 chicks. Best season since the 1986 endangered listing.

SOURCEGreat Lakes Restoration Initiative
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THE LETTUCE LIVES UPSTAIRS.

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Alaska found the place vertical farming actually makes sense.

The brewery put a lettuce farm upstairs. In Skagway, that actually works.

SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful
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THE DINOSAUR LEFT RECEIPTS.

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A T. rex took four steps. 66.5 million years later, a teacher found them.

Four footprints. Twenty-three feet. One 66.5-million-year-old walk.

SOURCEJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology
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THE HERD GOT BIGGER.

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23 bison went to Mexico. Now there are about 500.

Twenty-three became about 500. Now the herd is helping start other herds.

SOURCEMexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FMCN)
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THE SPACE UNDER THE PANELS GOT BUSY.

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The solar farm planted wildflowers. The bees noticed.

Panels up. Wildflowers in. Insects followed.

SOURCEEnvironmental Research Letters
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CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. POTHOLES: 0.

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New York filled its 200,000th pothole. Yes, that counts.

Two hundred thousand holes became not-holes.

SOURCENYC Department of Transportation
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NAMED BY LOCALS FIRST.

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Science just added a new cat to the family tree.

Locals already had a name for it. Genomics gave science one.

SOURCECurrent Biology
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LOUD AND INCREASING.

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One sanctuary just counted almost 100 more of New Zealand's rarest parakeets.

285 counted in a single day, almost 100 more than last year.

SOURCENew Zealand Department of Conservation
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DONE BY HAND.

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The diggers couldn't get there. So they fixed the bog by hand.

Ten days, wooden dams, no machinery. Pools are already forming.

SOURCENatureScot
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DAMS OUT. SALMON IN.

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The dams came down. More than 20,000 salmon came back.

Four dams gone. 21,052 adult Chinook counted upstream across two seasons. Eighty-eight percent of their documented historic range reoccupied — early, and encouraging.

SOURCEScientific Reports
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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.

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They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.

About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.

SOURCEBorneo Futures
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EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.

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Kindergarten PE now includes learning to ride a bike.

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.

SOURCEAssociated Press
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$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.

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The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.

Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.

SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.

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Kenya’s pangolins kept dying on electric fences. So landowners switched off the bottom wires.

The fix was two unpowered wires.

SOURCEMongabay / The Pangolin Project
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EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.

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An Ohio zoo just had its first-ever Amur leopard cub.

Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.

SOURCECleveland Metroparks Zoo
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208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.

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Seven “turtle women” sent 208 hatchlings back to the Amazon.

235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.

SOURCEMongabay
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THE MAP WAS THE PROBLEM.

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The world map is finally admitting how big Africa is.

Africa was not small. The map was weird.

SOURCEAssociated Press
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SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.

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The gorilla they rescued as a baby just had one in the wild.

Rescued at 18 months. Rewilded eight years later. Now Lulingu is raising a baby of her own in the forest.

SOURCEGRACE Gorillas
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SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.

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The church and mosque next door keep giving blood together.

They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.

SOURCEMemphis Islamic Center
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RUBELLA, OFF THE LIST.

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Thailand just knocked rubella off the public-health list.

Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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