Global Good News
The year the ocean introduced itself
Scientists found 1,121 new marine species in a single year, and they are just getting started.
Author
Nicole McMahon
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Australia just met its own pollinators
The first national picture of who actually pollinates Australia has been drawn, and the native bees come out of it looking like heroes in waiting.
Sustainable Living
The basketball courts that drink the storm
In Queens, New York, the neighbourhood's brightest new courts have a secret: when the big rain comes, they swallow it.
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One puffling, thirty years in the waiting
On the cliffs of Dorset, volunteers watched a puffin chick leave its nest for the first time in three decades.
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The island that was mined bare grew back
Fifty years ago Lady Elliot Island was a stripped coral cay. In June, the man who spent four decades replanting it was given a lifetime achievement award, and you can go and see what the fuss is about.
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The Goddesses of the Forest
One hundred and eight women guard Kaziranga's rhinos, and the poachers have gone quiet.
Explore
How to visit the Torres Strait, and how to ask
Two islands you can simply fly to, and the form you fill in for the rest. A practical guide to going north.
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The sacred bird that came home to Japan
Japan's toki was gone from the wild. This May, a crowd in Hakui watched eight fly free in the very place they were last seen.
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The divers planting a forest by hand, in winter
At Eaglehawk Neck, people come from all over the world to spend four cold weeks putting giant kelp back on the reef.
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The river that got one hundred and eleven villages back
In Azamgarh, village councils cleaned eighty nine kilometres of the Tamsa, then planted sixty five thousand fruit trees along her banks.
Innovations
The cargo ships that remembered the wind
After eight years at sea, the spinning sails on one bulk carrier have saved over a thousand tonnes of fuel, and they are still turning.
Sustainable Living
Type in your postcode, find out what belongs there
Two free Australian things: a tool that knows what will thrive in your patch, and volunteers who will come and look at your garden.