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Twenty nine thousand names, and an island comes home
A ninety nine year development concession over Manoel Island has ended, and the waterfront is going back to the people who asked for it.
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Glass a bird can see
A window is invisible to a bird. The new answer is a pattern etched into the glass itself, which the bird reads as solid and you barely notice at all.
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Nepal counted its tigers, and there are 429
One hundred and twenty one in 2009. Four hundred and twenty nine this year, in a country you could drive across in a day.
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The stretch of the Murray where the stories come out at night
Old eucalypts, an inland beach and a night walk through Bangerang country, on the quiet stretch of the Murray between Cobram and Tocumwal.
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Replenishing the soul in Rishikesh
Where the Ganges leaves the mountains, the whole town is arranged around rest.
Sustainable Living
The forests that fit in a schoolyard
Tiny, dense, wild: pocket forests are springing up in 62 cities, and the children are doing the planting.
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One hundred species, and the money to bring them home
A new 200 million dollar fund has one job: carry one hundred threatened animals and plants all the way back.
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The park where the oldest living things keep watch
Bristlecone pines older than the pyramids, alpine lakes, and hardly a queue in sight.
Innovations
The mines that warm the town above them
Gateshead dug coal for two centuries. Now the flooded old tunnels warm the town, cleanly, from below.
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The giants are coming home to Floreana
After 180 years, giant tortoises walk Floreana Island again, the first of twelve species being welcomed home.
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The prize for the world beneath our feet
The Nobel of the environment just went to the scientist mapping the fungal internet under the forests.
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The sleeping child wakes up
Guatemala calls its rarest lizard the niño dormido, the sleeping child. A zoo in the capital is giving it a future.