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West of Bora Bora, a small island paired every fish with a breadfruit variety so each one got the rest of the year off, and a geographer and a Tahitian researcher have just written down what the islanders carved in stone.
On Lios Mor, a limestone island in Loch Linnhe on Scotland's west coast, the historical society paid for the excavation, islanders dug beside the archaeologists, and a paper out this week says their monastery was melting gold and silver thirteen centuries ago.
Voting is open in the ABC's Australian Insect of the Year, a tortoise shelled ladybird is in the final six, and the reigning champion is a dragonfly with painted wings.
Five hours south of Lima, a lagoon ringed by palms and sand dunes is a regional conservation area with a new five year plan, a citizens' committee and a monthly top up from a well, while a woman nearby has planted tens of thousands of the desert's own trees.
On the last day of July a female Amur tiger called Umit walked out of her enclosure into 450,000 hectares of river forest and reed bed in south east Kazakhstan, the first tiger to live wild there since 1948.
In the strait that runs through the middle of Istanbul, researchers are photographing dorsal fins the way police photograph fingerprints, and the fins keep coming back with calves beside them.
Everything you think you know about hippos is a little bit wrong, in the best way, and the scientists who spend their nights on African riverbanks have the evidence.
An amateur astronomer scrolling satellite maps for a camping spot in Quebec saw a circle that should not have been there. Two years later, geologists flew in and confirmed a crater that had been hiding in plain sight for 390 million years.
Two sets of ancient teeth from Sulawesi carry the same deep grooves and the same chemical trace, and Australian and Indonesian scientists say they tell of people chewing betel nut for comfort 25,000 years ago.
Off the Oregon coast the first grid connected wave energy test site in the United States is open after fifteen years of work, with room for twenty machines and a promise to study how they sit with marine life. A Fremantle company is about to put its own wave machine in the sea in Spain.
Tucson, Arizona had 112 days over 38 degrees in 2024. Its answer is a million trees by 2030, native species chosen for birds and pollinators as much as shade, and up to three free trees for any household on the streets that need them most.
Twenty projects around San Francisco Bay have just been funded together, and almost all of them are places you will be able to walk to.
