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Flip a paver, plant a garden
Right now, whole Dutch towns are competing to lift paving slabs out of their gardens and streets and plant something living in the gap. The prize is a golden shovel, and everybody wins.
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What a penguin sees when diving
Scientists in Antarctica fitted tiny cameras to penguins for a single day, and came back with the whole blue world.
Innovations
In Portsmouth, the marsh floats
Marine scientists in England are launching pontoons planted with living saltmarsh, bringing shoreline habitat back to harbours that were long ago walled in concrete, and the same thinking is stirring in Sydney.
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Walk the Whitsundays the Ngaro way
Australia's newest great walk crosses Whitsunday Island from Whitehaven Beach to Hill Inlet, created with the Ngaro people, and its first season is nearly booked out.
Innovations
The molecule that knows gold
Switch the power on and it takes hold of the gold. Switch it off and it lets go.
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Western Australia just burst into bloom
Early rain has brought Western Australia's wildflower season on weeks ahead of itself, and the everlastings are reaching their carpet stage right now.
Rewilding
Four billion moths ride the stars south
The bogong moth had its strongest return to the Alps since its numbers fell away in 2017, and this spring thousands of people will help find out where it goes.
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The bat nado rises at sunset
The Yolo Causeway carries Interstate 80 over the marshes west of Sacramento. Underneath it lives California's largest city bat colony, and watching it leave is free.
Innovations
Two teenagers are cleaning Nairobi’s air
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki and Miron Onsarigo were seventeen when they built a vehicle exhaust filter from maize cobs, coconut shells and algae. It costs a third of the usual kind.
Innovations
When the birds fly, the lights go low
Half of all the birds that cross the United States at night do it on about one night in ten. Now a city's streetlights can know which nights those are.
Global Good News
Thursday belongs to the Silver Salties
Surf Life Saving Australia's Silver Salties has brought more than three thousand people back to the beach. As the new season opens, the clubs want you.
Sustainable Living
In Porto, the ride is now free
Since July, anyone who lives in Portugal's second city rides the metro, the trains, the buses and the old trams for nothing.