Sonar counts show thousands of Chinook moved into newly reopened stretches of river within two years, an early sign the largest dam removal yet is paying off.
Klamath River, Oregon and California, United States · · 3 min read
Experts believe it's the first known barn owl nest in Manhattan in modern history, a bright spot for a species declining fast in New York State.
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, USA · · 3 min read
Sixteen lab-grown stars spent the summer on a Monterey Bay reef, an early step toward bringing back a predator that keeps kelp-eating urchins in check.
Monterey Bay, California, USA · · 3 min read
Built to drive 20 km on Mars, the rover has now gone 45.22 km, mostly by steering itself, and its team thinks it could reach about 100 km.
Jezero Crater, Mars · · 3 min read
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Researchers say the skull fragment is Europe’s first known megaraptoran, a clue to how these clawed hunters spread from Asia to the southern continents.
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom · · 3 min read
The fungus grows up to 50 cm tall, and genome clues suggest its family branched off about 65 million years ago, soon after the dinosaur-era extinction.
Yunnan Province, China · · 2 min read
The drug targets the root cause of a rare, often fatal brain disease, and it grew out of more than 30 years of lab work in Wisconsin.
United States · · 3 min read
Strong Roots Congo, led by a man from an evicted Indigenous community, plans to protect Itombwe by hiring local people instead of pushing them out.
Itombwe Nature Reserve, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo · · 3 min read
Three mothers with babies and two teenage males got a fresh start in a forest with food, water and room to roam, though fires still burn nearby.
Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia · · 2 min read
Two-thirds of those trips ran through the new tunnels and stations, and daily rail trips from West Auckland into the city nearly tripled.
Auckland, New Zealand · · 2 min read
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