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Solar and batteries helped cut summer wholesale power prices 42% in Texas and 51% in California.

More clean capacity arrived—and midday wholesale power got cheaper.

SOURCESolar Energy Industries Association

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NATURE

A national cleanup removed 24,000 ghost traps—and funded 11 more projects.

Old fishing gear came out. Data, habitat and coastal jobs moved in.

SOURCEVirginia Institute of Marine Science / NOAA Marine Debris Program

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North America’s largest wildlife crossing cut animal-vehicle collisions 91%.

A bridge for wildlife became a safety system for everyone.

SOURCEThe Guardian / Colorado Department of Transportation

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Fifteen rare ibises followed a plane south.

Human foster parents flew ahead. Fifteen young ibises followed them into a new Spanish flock.

SOURCEThe Guardian / Waldrappteam

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High-mileage electric cars were less likely to fail.

At 90,000–120,000 miles, EVs were about 25% less likely to fail an MOT.

SOURCEBVRLA / New AutoMotive

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NATURE

Norway created its largest marine protected area.

Andfjorden now protects 1,848.5 square kilometres.

SOURCENorwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment

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California’s wolves just had a record 42 pups.

Eight packs raised pups in 2026, extending one of California’s wildest comeback stories.

SOURCESFGATE / California Department of Fish and Wildlife

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A knitted crop cover produced 3.56× the harvestable strawberries.

The fabric let light, rain and air through — while keeping insect mouths out.

SOURCENC State News

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Peanut butter failed. Burnt coconut found a new species.

Two mice, one mountain valley, and twenty-two years of patient taxonomy.

SOURCEZooKeys / PubMed Central

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South Korea's renewable-energy capacity surpassed coal for the first time.

Renewables reached 41,040 MW on October 21—283 MW more than coal.

SOURCEKorea Power Exchange

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Ten more scarlet macaws are flying free near La Ceiba, Honduras.

The October 26 release brought the local 2026 total to 26 in a landscape where wild macaws had been absent for decades.

SOURCELa Prensa

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Malawi now reports its September measles-rubella campaign reached more than 5.8 million children.

The final WHO update says the nationwide drive met its target, including remote island and river communities.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization

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Scientists separated psilocybin's brain rewiring from its hallucinatory pathway—in mice.

A circuit map hints that plasticity and hallucination may not be inseparable.

SOURCEUC Santa Cruz / Nature Neuroscience

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Physicists trapped one particle of antimatter for months.

One positron. Months of control. A new precision tool for fundamental physics.

SOURCENorthwestern University / Physical Review Letters

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Six months in space left astronauts' hearts ready for Mars gravity.

Exercise kept the heart inside the Mars envelope.

SOURCECirculation / PubMed

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NYC's toll zone cut fine-particle pollution 13%.

The estimated air-quality gain closely tracked an 11% drop in vehicles entering the zone.

SOURCEColumbia Climate School / Environmental Science & Technology Letters

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Backpack won Fat Bear Week.

A brown bear called Backpack packed on enough Alaska to win the internet’s favorite wildlife election.

SOURCENational Park Service

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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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Colorado funded $13.9 million in practical industrial emissions cuts.

Six implementation projects and one study will test cleaner equipment from landfill methane sensors to factory batteries.

SOURCEColorado Energy Office

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HUMANS

Seven parents helped turn a near-empty school into a 400-student neighborhood anchor.

A parent-led preschool and Spanish-immersion campaign helped Daniel Webster Elementary grow into a thriving neighborhood school.

SOURCESan Francisco Chronicle / SFUSD

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Wild bobwhite coveys were spotted as Tennessee restored 5,000 acres of habitat.

Multiple coveys are an early sign that open-savanna restoration is rebuilding room for a long-declining bird.

SOURCEUniversity of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

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