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Everyone who lives in Mahon Pool
Under the cliffs at North Maroubra, a pool built by hand in the 1930s shares its water with anemones, crabs, blennies, sea hares and the odd octopus. Go at low tide and meet the neighbours.
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Conservation
Three hundred became three thousand: the numbat comes home
In July the world's Red List moved the numbat from Endangered to Near Threatened, after forty years of work by scientists, Perth Zoo and volunteers who count numbats from a slow car and raise the money at bingo nights.
Global Good News
Two days of climbing through cloud, and a frog nobody had named
On the sandstone summits of Ecuador's Cordillera del Condor, a frog small enough to sit on a fingertip has been described for the first time. Her name honours a botanist, and the same museum team found the glass frog we told you about in August.
Innovations
China's electric cars, and the air, measured from space
Published in Nature Health: satellite readings across 150 Chinese cities show fine particle pollution 23.8 per cent lower than it would have been without electric cars, and a great deal of breathing made easier.
Innovations
Raven is in orbit, listening to the animals
A shoebox sized satellite built in Europe is the first of six that will hear from tiny tags on wild animals up to six times a day, a cheetah in Namibia among them.
Global Good News
London's children are breathing easier, and their lungs show it
Five years of measuring more than 3,400 children in London and Luton found that as the air cleared, young lungs grew faster and caught up: a result published this August in The Lancet Public Health.
Conservation
One echidna, or five?
Associate Professor Stewart Nicol has spent more than forty years with echidnas. His review of decades of research finds one species living five quite different lives, and that matters for every carer and zoo in the country.
Conservation
Have your say on 44 marine parks
Off the Coral Sea, seabird islands have just been found healthy from end to end. Behind them, Parks Australia is writing six new plans for every Commonwealth marine park, and the public window is open until 4pm on Wednesday 30 September.
Global Good News
Canoe country, kept clean by a signature
Minnesota has stopped state permits for copper mining across the watershed that feeds the Boundary Waters, the great American wilderness where the only way through is by paddle.
Sustainable Living
Good news lands when it is felt together
A new study from the University of California San Diego on what happens when we share good news finds the magic is not in understanding the teller. It is in feeling glad alongside them.
Sustainable Living
One more shared meal, and life feels better
Researchers at Oxford, Harvard, UCL and Gallup put a number on something every family table already knows: people who eat with others more often are happier, wherever in the world they live.
Global Good News
Iceland fills its ditches back in
Thirty four thousand kilometres of ditches drained Iceland's lowland bogs last century. An eight million euro project is now closing them, one landowner at a time, for the birds that fly there every spring to nest.