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Côte d’Ivoire connected 3.56 million more people…

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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THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.

Gene editing just learned to move bigger pieces of DNA.

A new lab method can place gene-sized DNA at targeted sites in human cells. No patients yet.

SOURCENature

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184 CHICKS. NEW RECORD.

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.

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.

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.

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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CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE: 1. POTHOLES: 0.

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.

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.

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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LAB BENCH HOPE.

Scientists found antibodies that blocked the red-meat allergy in the lab.

42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.

SOURCENIH

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STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME

A blood test just got better at finding pancreatic cancer early.

An investigational blood test flagged stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer about 87% of the time in a study of roughly 1,800 people. Not FDA-cleared. Still a big deal.

SOURCENature Medicine

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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.

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.

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.

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.

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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18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.

The experimental lung-cancer drug nearly doubled median survival.

18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.

SOURCEBioNTech / OncoC4

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EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.

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

Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.

SOURCECleveland Metroparks Zoo

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THE MAP WAS THE PROBLEM.

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.

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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FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.

The Arctic has a new early-warning map. It watches lakes disappear.

Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.

SOURCEAlfred Wegener Institute

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SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.

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.

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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653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.

653 frogs just got their mountains back.

653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.

SOURCELos Angeles Zoo

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THE BOAT ADAPTED.

The wheelchair stays on shore. The sailor doesn’t.

Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.

SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful

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