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Milan gave its council chamber to the swifts and the bees
For one Friday in June, the animals of Milan had somebody speaking for them in the room where the city decides things.
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Hedgehogs can hear a great deal more than we knew
A gentle experiment in Oxford found a hidden range in hedgehog hearing, and with it a kind idea.
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The walk that Year 10 built
A 262 kilometre loop through the far south west of Victoria, cut by hand by school students and kept going by volunteers ever since.
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Two nights in a cabin, and nobody can tell whose grandchildren are whose
A Minnesota park district built a camp around the pair nobody usually plans for: a grandparent and a grandchild.
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The bird that needed the trees to grow old first
A hornbill gone from Gir for sixty years is nesting there again, in hollows the forest took decades to make.
Sustainable Living
Fix it, find it, or borrow it
A new right to repair arrived across Europe this week, and a whole generation was already there waiting for it.
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The island where the crabs have right of way
The second half of the journey continues at Christmas Island: off the wharf into 28 degree water, hauling the ocean's cargo up through the jungle, and the joy of one turtle who came back.
Innovations
A river opened up again, 160 miles of it
In northern Michigan a river has spent 15 years being handed back to itself, and the last piece is a rather clever gate.
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The young farmers rewriting life on the land
Buffalo dairies, soil first grazing, and a country school where the classroom is a working farm.
Innovations
The machine that makes drinking water out of thin air
Two American neighbourhoods are about to drink water pulled straight out of the sky.
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Seventeen good ideas and a room to hold them in
In Canberra it turned out that connection needed very little: a venue, an instructor and an open door.
Innovations
The concrete recipe that just passed its biggest test
A Paris development of 151 homes has been built entirely with a low carbon cement, and nobody on site had to change how they work.