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The frozen library that hopes never to lend a book
Inside a mountain in the Arctic sit 1.4 million kinds of seed, and this year two countries added theirs for the first time.
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The rope bridges built so sloths never have to touch the ground
On the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica there are now 378 of them, strung tree to tree above the roads.
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The scientists brightening clouds to shade the reef
A fine mist of seawater, a slightly brighter cloud, and a little less summer sun on the coral below.
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New York is growing 25 million trees, starting with the nurseries
Progress is progress, and the state just put 46 million dollars behind the simple truth that every tree needs somewhere to grow from.
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The ocean beyond every border just got its first rulebook
Two thirds of the ocean finally has a rulebook. And the closer that care comes to the shoreline, the more of us get to watch the healing.
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The run that ends in the sea
This Sunday about 90,000 people pour down the hill to Bondi, and Sydney lets winter go.
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Thirty eight pups, and a coastline getting its sea lions back
On the Otago coast, one of the world's rarest sea lions has just reached a number that counts.
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Milan gave its council chamber to the swifts and the bees
For one Friday in June, the animals of Milan had somebody speaking for them in the room where the city decides things.
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Hedgehogs can hear a great deal more than we knew
A gentle experiment in Oxford found a hidden range in hedgehog hearing, and with it a kind idea.
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The walk that Year 10 built
A 262 kilometre loop through the far south west of Victoria, cut by hand by school students and kept going by volunteers ever since.
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Two nights in a cabin, and nobody can tell whose grandchildren are whose
A Minnesota park district built a camp around the pair nobody usually plans for: a grandparent and a grandchild.
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The bird that needed the trees to grow old first
A hornbill gone from Gir for sixty years is nesting there again, in hollows the forest took decades to make.