Published in Nature Health: satellite readings across 150 Chinese cities show fine particle pollution 23.8 per cent lower than it would have been without electric cars, and a great deal of breathing made easier.
A shoebox sized satellite built in Europe is the first of six that will hear from tiny tags on wild animals up to six times a day, a cheetah in Namibia among them.
Five years of measuring more than 3,400 children in London and Luton found that as the air cleared, young lungs grew faster and caught up: a result published this August in The Lancet Public Health.
Associate Professor Stewart Nicol has spent more than forty years with echidnas. His review of decades of research finds one species living five quite different lives, and that matters for every carer and zoo in the country.
Eight new stories this Wednesday morning, from the marine parks to the canoe country of Minnesota.
Off the Coral Sea, seabird islands have just been found healthy from end to end. Behind them, Parks Australia is writing six new plans for every Commonwealth marine park, and the public window is open until 4pm on Wednesday 30 September.
Minnesota has stopped state permits for copper mining across the watershed that feeds the Boundary Waters, the great American wilderness where the only way through is by paddle.
A new study from the University of California San Diego on what happens when we share good news finds the magic is not in understanding the teller. It is in feeling glad alongside them.
Researchers at Oxford, Harvard, UCL and Gallup put a number on something every family table already knows: people who eat with others more often are happier, wherever in the world they live.
Thirty four thousand kilometres of ditches drained Iceland's lowland bogs last century. An eight million euro project is now closing them, one landowner at a time, for the birds that fly there every spring to nest.
From Hurghada to Marsa Alam, the reefs of the Red Sea shrug off heat that bleaches coral elsewhere. Now they have a fund of their own, help for the small businesses that live by them, and mooring buoys so boats stop dropping anchor on them.
Published in Nature this week: a plastic film that is brilliantly white and sheds water like a lotus leaf, with no titanium dioxide and none of the forever chemicals that usually do that job.
