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An African spurred tortoise stands beside the entrance to its burrow in Senegal's Sahel region.

A viral story claims 500 tortoises turned Sahara sand green in five years, but no scientist, agency, or satellite image can verify that the experiment ever happened

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August 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Traveler caring for a rescued pig at a Hawaii animal sanctuary offering free housing to volunteers

A Hawaii animal sanctuary is offering free housing to travelers, but in return they must spend 30 hours a week feeding, cleaning and caring for rescued farm animals

By Adrian Villellas

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August 7, 2026 at 10:33 AM

Discarded tires lie scattered across the seabed at Florida's failed Osborne Tire Reef project.

In the early 1970s, Florida dumped between 1 million and 2 million tires into the Atlantic to build an artificial reef, and the plan turned into an ecological disaster

By Kevin Montien

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August 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Make Sunsets team prepares a weather balloon for a solar geoengineering experiment using sulfur dioxide.

In 2022, a California startup released sulfur dioxide balloons over Mexico to test ‘cooling credits,’ and the backlash pushed Mexico to move to block solar geoengineering experiments

By Adrian Villellas

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August 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Byron Kominek drives a tractor beneath elevated solar panels at Jack's Solar Garden in Longmont, Colorado

A Colorado farm now grows berries and herbs beneath 3,276 solar panels, and four years of data show the shade actually helped crops survive drought

By Kevin Montien

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August 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A Florida homeowner covers a dry front lawn with overlapping cardboard sheets before adding mulch and native pollinator plants.

It all started when a Florida homeowner had some old cardboard boxes he was going to throw away and ended up transforming a withered lawn into a garden full of butterflies, bees, birds, and edible plants that requires almost no maintenance

By Adrian Villellas

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August 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM

The Pascua Lama mining district in Chile's high Andes, surrounded by glaciers and alpine terrain.

A Diaguita community is fighting Barrick’s El Alto drilling permit in Chile’s high Andes, arguing it would reopen ground already covered by a binding closure order

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August 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A reef cube is loaded onto a vessel before deployment for a native oyster restoration project in northeast England.

Britain is dropping 20 concrete reef cubes and 44 tons of scallop shells into the sea, and the goal is to bring back oysters down more than 95% since the 1800s

By Kevin Montien

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August 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Black2Green's 15-tonne-per-day plastics-to-energy facility in Whangārei, New Zealand.

A New Zealand plastic-to-fuel plant can keep operating after an Environment Court ruling, and Zero Waste Aotearoa says the missing emissions evidence is the real alarm

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Colombian Navy personnel board a fishing boat during an operation near the Malpelo Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean.

Colombia intercepted a boat with 1,764 pounds of marine animals near Malpelo, and the catch may have come from one of the Pacific’s most protected sanctuaries

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August 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Wild Iberian rabbit (Oryctolagus algirus) in its natural habitat on the Iberian Peninsula.

Scientists split the Iberian rabbit from the European rabbit after 2 million years apart, and the newly named Oryctolagus algirus is already vanishing from western Iberia

By Adrian Villellas

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August 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM

Mixed forest in France undergoing reforestation as part of national forest renewal efforts.

France promised a billion trees in ten years, and its Council of State has now struck down the decree that paid for it, for skipping public consultation

By Adrian Villellas

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August 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM

President Donald Trump in front of the Bears Ears landscape after signing proclamations that dramatically reduced the Utah national monument.

Trump cut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 2.93 million acres, leaving barely a tenth protected and reopening the Utah desert to mining and oil

By Kevin Montien

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August 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of the protected River Lugg after a British farmer used heavy machinery to reshape the riverbank

A British farmer drove a 20-metric-ton excavator into a protected river, uprooted 71 mature trees, and the damage he caused in just a few days could take 50 years to disappear

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August 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM

Worker unloads recycled oyster shells collected from restaurants for coastal reef restoration.

Florida is turning the shells left behind by restaurant patrons into living reefs, but the figure of 500,000 metric tons does not appear in official records

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM

Empress cicada with transparent wings used to develop an ultrasensitive optical sensor

Scientists have transformed a simple fragment of a cicada’s wing into an optical platform capable of detecting molecular signals that, under normal conditions, would be virtually impossible to detect

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August 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM

polymetallic-nodules-deep-sea-minerals

The U.S. wants to auction deep waters around American Samoa, and the minerals lying up to 20,000 feet down could open a new ocean fight

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Low water levels expose sandbanks along the Rhine River during Europe's 2026 summer drought.

Europe’s great rivers are shrinking under heat and drought, and the Danube, Rhine and Loire are showing how fast summer can redraw the continent

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Illegal agricultural plastic waste dump near greenhouses in Boqueras Altas, Almería, Spain.

One plastic-covered plot in Almería is exposing the hidden cost of Europe’s greenhouse vegetables, and the waste has been piling up for more than a decade

By Adrian Villellas

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August 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Global CADI map showing projected climate-driven gains and losses in agricultural productivity across the world's croplands.

A new climate map can forecast farm decline almost six miles at a time, and the warning is already visible in one in six croplands

By Kevin Montien

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August 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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Todd Stevens and Xavier Duffy examining artifacts recovered from the 1680 Phoenix shipwreck near the Isles of Scilly.

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

Published On: September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Miami-Dade firefighter comforting Jack after finding the black dog inside a dumpster.

Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made an unexpected new friend

Published On: September 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

Published On: September 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft flying above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in an artist's concept.

NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Orforglipron oral GLP-1 pill developed by Eli Lilly for adults with type 2 diabetes.

A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Cows and calves grazing beneath CattleTracker solar panels at Silicon Ranch in Tennessee.

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM

DEEP Vanguard underwater habitat installed on the seafloor at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys.

Engineers lowered a giant steel structure into the water off the Florida Keys where it will deliberately remain on the seabed, but what looks like abandoned industrial hardware is designed to become something alive

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Hands showing joint swelling and deformity associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Scientists spent years testing a phenomenon researchers thought they understood, but the results revealed an unexpected mechanism hiding underneath and raised new questions about how the system actually works

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM

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