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The butterflies that came back to the boy
A ten year old in Kobe wondered if his butterflies remembered him. The answer is now heading for a science journal.
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The nets that catch a cloud
In Chile's dry north, a farming community harvests its water straight out of the morning fog.
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The towns that turned their lights off
Above the Warrumbungles the night sky is protected like a national park, because it is one.
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The Perth pair growing tomorrow's plastic in a seaweed tank
An ocean scientist and her cofounder ferment seaweed into little pearls that behave like plastic, then vanish like a leaf.
Sustainable Living
Ten minutes, shoes off
The newest research on feeling better is also the oldest advice in the world: go outside, take your shoes off, and stand on the earth for a little while.
Innovations
The seeds that think the lightning came
In Cairns, a Maiawali inventor and his cofounder wake seeds up with gentle electricity, the way storms have done for ten thousand years.
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When the water comes back, this little duck knows first
The pink eared duck spends its life chasing rain across the continent. This year the rain fell, the wetlands filled, and the ducks arrived in their thousands.
Sustainable Living
The little docket that is leaving the till
The shiny paper receipt cannot be recycled and mostly is not read. An Australian inventor is retiring it, and you can help at any checkout.
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The year the ocean introduced itself
Scientists found 1,121 new marine species in a single year, and they are just getting started.
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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.