Ten years ago a team in Brazil chose a tree seed over a chemical. Now that seed pulls microplastics out of drinking water as well as the industry standard, and it is cleaning river water in their laboratory. Professor Adriano Reis and his team sent us their photographs and their story.
Red tailed phascogales are tiny tree climbing marsupials whose males live a single season. At Mt Gibson in Western Australia the count has just doubled to the most in nine years, and in South Australia they have bred in the wild three years running.
Off the Oregon coast the first grid connected wave energy test site in the United States is open after fifteen years of work, with room for twenty machines and a promise to study how they sit with marine life. A Fremantle company is about to put its own wave machine in the sea in Spain.
Tucson, Arizona had 112 days over 38 degrees in 2024. Its answer is a million trees by 2030, native species chosen for birds and pollinators as much as shade, and up to three free trees for any household on the streets that need them most.
How lucky we are, to look after each other and the marine life, together.
Twenty projects around San Francisco Bay have just been funded together, and almost all of them are places you will be able to walk to.
Once a year on Bonaire, divers, snorkelers, dive shop staff and people who simply live there spend a morning tending the island's underwater coral nurseries, then come ashore for a party.
On a flat grey Dutch lake, engineers dredged sand and clay and silt off the bottom and shaped it into islands, and this week those islands turn ten.
In the shallow bay off La Paz the biggest fish in the sea comes to feed every winter, and the town has learned to wait for the sharks to arrive before a single boat goes out.
A researcher in Queensland has built a tool that reads drone photographs and counts every bird in them, and he has given it away to the world.
A water scientist in central New South Wales has built a plant that takes contaminants apart rather than straining them out, and his town now gets to use the same water twice.
Australia's largest Japanese garden sits in a country town in the central west of New South Wales, and this weekend it is celebrating its cherry blossom.
