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The satellites that smell smoke first
A new constellation is being built for one job only: finding wildfires while they are still small enough to stop.
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The satellites keeping watch over the desert elephants
In Namibia, a message from space now helps farmers and free roaming elephants share the same dry rivers in peace.
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Sleep in the lighthouse keeper's cottage, nine kilometres out to sea
No cars, no shops, no road. Barunguba Montague Island has a granite lighthouse, eight thousand penguins and two cottages you can book.
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The frozen library that hopes never to lend a book
Inside a mountain in the Arctic sit 1.4 million kinds of seed, and this year two countries added theirs for the first time.
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The rope bridges built so sloths never have to touch the ground
On the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica there are now 378 of them, strung tree to tree above the roads.
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The Shanghai fuel made from thin air and water
A young company just broke ground on a factory whose ingredients are captured carbon dioxide and hydrogen split from water.
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Mako, the robot planting a meadow underwater
Hand planting seagrass manages about five hectares a year. This machine is built for five hectares a day.
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The scientists brightening clouds to shade the reef
A fine mist of seawater, a slightly brighter cloud, and a little less summer sun on the coral below.
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New York is growing 25 million trees, starting with the nurseries
Progress is progress, and the state just put 46 million dollars behind the simple truth that every tree needs somewhere to grow from.
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The ocean beyond every border just got its first rulebook
Two thirds of the ocean finally has a rulebook. And the closer that care comes to the shoreline, the more of us get to watch the healing.
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The run that ends in the sea
This Sunday about 90,000 people pour down the hill to Bondi, and Sydney lets winter go.
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The beauty counter learns to refill
The loveliest new habit in beauty is the one our grandmothers had all along, keep the container.