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The towns that turned their lights off
Above the Warrumbungles the night sky is protected like a national park, because it is one.
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When the water comes back, this little duck knows first
The pink eared duck spends its life chasing rain across the continent. This year the rain fell, the wetlands filled, and the ducks arrived in their thousands.
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The year the ocean introduced itself
Scientists found 1,121 new marine species in a single year, and they are just getting started.
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Australia just met its own pollinators
The first national picture of who actually pollinates Australia has been drawn, and the native bees come out of it looking like heroes in waiting.
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One puffling, thirty years in the waiting
On the cliffs of Dorset, volunteers watched a puffin chick leave its nest for the first time in three decades.
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The island that was mined bare grew back
Fifty years ago Lady Elliot Island was a stripped coral cay. In June, the man who spent four decades replanting it was given a lifetime achievement award, and you can go and see what the fuss is about.
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The Goddesses of the Forest
One hundred and eight women guard Kaziranga's rhinos, and the poachers have gone quiet.
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The sacred bird that came home to Japan
Japan's toki was gone from the wild. This May, a crowd in Hakui watched eight fly free in the very place they were last seen.
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The divers planting a forest by hand, in winter
At Eaglehawk Neck, people come from all over the world to spend four cold weeks putting giant kelp back on the reef.
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The river that got one hundred and eleven villages back
In Azamgarh, village councils cleaned eighty nine kilometres of the Tamsa, then planted sixty five thousand fruit trees along her banks.
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Never too late to dive in
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage ask that you be at least sixty four. The rest of us can start with a bag and a pair of gloves.
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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.