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West of Bora Bora, a small island paired every fish with a breadfruit variety so each one got the rest of the year off, and a geographer and a Tahitian researcher have just written down what the islanders carved in stone.
On Lios Mor, a limestone island in Loch Linnhe on Scotland's west coast, the historical society paid for the excavation, islanders dug beside the archaeologists, and a paper out this week says their monastery was melting gold and silver thirteen centuries ago.
Voting is open in the ABC's Australian Insect of the Year, a tortoise shelled ladybird is in the final six, and the reigning champion is a dragonfly with painted wings.
Schulz Organic Dairy in Timboon has sold milk in returnable glass since 2017, and from July its bottle is made in South Australia instead of shipped in from overseas.
Five hours south of Lima, a lagoon ringed by palms and sand dunes is a regional conservation area with a new five year plan, a citizens' committee and a monthly top up from a well, while a woman nearby has planted tens of thousands of the desert's own trees.
Out past the Warrumbungles, a museum built from one district's rocks holds Jurassic fish, the leaves of a tree that grew before the Wollemi pine, and the most colourful crystals the volcanoes ever made.
On the last day of July a female Amur tiger called Umit walked out of her enclosure into 450,000 hectares of river forest and reed bed in south east Kazakhstan, the first tiger to live wild there since 1948.
That smell when rain lands on warm ground has a name, an Australian one, and behind it is a partnership between soil bacteria and tiny creatures that is 400 million years old.
In the strait that runs through the middle of Istanbul, researchers are photographing dorsal fins the way police photograph fingerprints, and the fins keep coming back with calves beside them.
Everything you think you know about hippos is a little bit wrong, in the best way, and the scientists who spend their nights on African riverbanks have the evidence.
An amateur astronomer scrolling satellite maps for a camping spot in Quebec saw a circle that should not have been there. Two years later, geologists flew in and confirmed a crater that had been hiding in plain sight for 390 million years.
Two sets of ancient teeth from Sulawesi carry the same deep grooves and the same chemical trace, and Australian and Indonesian scientists say they tell of people chewing betel nut for comfort 25,000 years ago.
