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Five islands, dredged off the bottom of a lake, turn ten
On a flat grey Dutch lake, engineers dredged sand and clay and silt off the bottom and shaped it into islands, and this week those islands turn ten.
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In La Paz, no boat leaves until the sharks arrive
In the shallow bay off La Paz the biggest fish in the sea comes to feed every winter, and the town has learned to wait for the sharks to arrive before a single boat goes out.
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Helen Asu's net found a fish lost for forty years
On the Sepik River, a fisherwoman's hand net did what four decades of expeditions could not: two spinach pipefish, last seen by science in 1985.
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Otter families are back in the heart of Seoul
Twenty years of swapping concrete banks for soil, gravel and reeds has given the Han River something it had not had in living memory: otter parents raising pups in the heart of a city of nearly ten million.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Egypt backs the world's toughest coral
From Hurghada to Marsa Alam, the reefs of the Red Sea shrug off heat that bleaches coral elsewhere. Now they have a fund of their own, help for the small businesses that live by them, and mooring buoys so boats stop dropping anchor on them.
Conservation
Otago's coast gets five marine reserves, and Kāi Tahu rangers to keep them
On 1 July, five new marine reserves came into force along the coast south of Dunedin, three hundred and eight square kilometres of sea where nothing is taken, and Kāi Tahu rangers now share the keeping of them.
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Thirty thousand salmon came home to the Mendocino coast
Twenty five years of pulling out culverts, laying logs and letting creeks bend again, and last winter the most endangered coho in California came back in numbers nobody working on those rivers had ever seen.
Innovations
In a dark room in Auckland, the packaging is growing itself
Mushroom Material feeds fungus roots on wood chips and cardboard, dries the result into little white marshmallows, and presses them into the shapes polystyrene used to fill. It composts at home in under three months.