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A collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) running through grassland after returning to the wild in Uruguay.

A species extinct for more than 100 years has returned to the fields and moved conservationists, one of those rare stories where nature seems to get a second chance

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July 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A diver swims beside a West Indian Ocean coelacanth, showing the remarkable size of the ancient deep-sea fish.

A fisherman in Anjouan accidentally pulled up a coelacanth, the prehistoric-looking fish that seemed like a living fossil hidden in deep waters and still leaves people stunned

By Adrian Villellas

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July 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Aerial view of Perisher ski resort with snow-covered slopes in Australia's Kosciuszko National Park.

Artificial ski runs laid like white strips over brown slopes may be saving seasons for now, but they are also feeding the same climate problem that is melting the snow

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July 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A black hawk-eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus) perched on a tree branch in tropical forest.

A black hawk-eagle was recorded for the first time in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, turning Mexico into the scene of a high-flying naturalist surprise

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A jukumari, or Andean bear, stands in native forest near the headwaters of Bolivia's Parapetí River.

The jukumari has reappeared near the headwaters of the Parapetí River, a hopeful sign for conservationists in Bolivia’s Chaco because spotting such an elusive bear is not an everyday thing

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July 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM

ROV manipulator grasps a degraded VHS cassette 8,700 ft deep on the Argentine seafloor.

An underwater robot dove nearly 13,000 ft. in the Argentine Sea and found fishing nets, bags, and even a VHS tape, as if the ocean floor were keeping a trash pile from another era

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July 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Aerial view of a large reverse-osmosis desalination complex on the Atlantic coast, with seawater intake and brine outfall channels.

Morocco is getting serious about water security with mega-desalination plants and new rules for cities of millions, a massive bet that shows how far the water crisis can go

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July 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Diver hovers above young kelp fronds and restored algae in the Zapallar marine refuge on Chile’s central coast.

Artisanal fishers in Chile are using marine refuges to protect black sea urchins and help revive underwater forests, an unexpected move where saving one species helps lift an entire ecosystem

By Kevin Montien

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July 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A restored watershed in Chiloé, Chile, featuring native forest vegetation and infiltration trenches that supply a gravity-fed water network.

A rural community in Chiloé spent years struggling with drought and managed to bring its water back using nature-based methods, a small story on the map but a huge one for the people turning the tap on again

By Adrian Villellas

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July 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM

A bottom-set fishing net equipped with sealed, recycled plastic bottles acting as acoustic reflectors to warn dolphins.

Recycled plastic bottles could reduce accidental dolphin bycatch in fishing nets by up to 88%, a pretty wild twist for a waste material usually linked to pollution

By Adrian Villellas

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July 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Researchers conducting a field test in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, where seawater is pumped onto sea ice to increase its thickness and reflectivity.

The first experiment to thicken Arctic ice with seawater showed promise, but it comes with a huge catch that could turn a climate solution into a serious dilemma

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A Mexican mantled howler monkey in the forest canopy of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, where researchers detected microplastics in fecal samples.

Plastic is no longer just on beaches and in rivers, scientists found microplastics in howler monkeys in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, a strange warning that pollution has reached the treetops

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A deep-sea submersible camera captures a corroded radioactive waste barrel on the seafloor, now colonized by sponges and anemones.

About 80 years after some 200,000 radioactive barrels were dumped in the ocean, France is leading a mission to find them, an uncomfortable story that sounds like a forgotten file under the sea

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Erin Brockovich speaking about the environmental impact of AI data centers and the need for greater transparency in local communities.

Erin Brockovich is once again tied to an environmental fight against a utility company, and the case inevitably recalls the battle that turned her into a symbol of citizen resistance

By Adrian Villellas

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July 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Aerial view of gold mining operations in a river in Bolivia, with machinery, sediment, and deforested land visible

Bolivia is facing new environmental tensions over an agreement with mining cooperatives that, according to critics, could trigger thousands of applications and put protected areas under enormous pressure

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Male Edwards’s pheasant with metallic blue plumage and white crest in a conservation breeding program

A Málaga-born pheasant traveled thousands of miles to Vietnam, and its mission is to help revive a species missing from the wild since 2000

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July 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Aerial view of the Colorado River delta showing dry channels and limited water flow toward the Sea of Cortez

After decades of dams, diversions, and drought, the Colorado River will once again flow into the Sea of Cortez—a scene many believed was lost and that is seen almost as a historic return of the water.

By Adrian Villellas

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July 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Foam and polluted water in the Tagus River showing signs of contamination in Spain.

The Tagus River has just issued a silent warning in Spain: at the 19 monitoring sites analyzed over the course of nearly a year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and signs of fecal contamination have been detected along some 300 kilometers of the rive

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July 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Kayaker paddling on the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, showing urban water use and recreation.

The Chattahoochee River has gone from smelling like sewage and mud to featuring parks, trails, and kayaks, but the death of more than 44,000 fish has served as a reminder that its recovery remains fragile

By Kevin Montien

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July 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Bird nest built with thin cable and natural fibers, showing wildlife adaptation to human-made debris

Birds near the front lines in Ukraine are building nests with fiber-optic cable left behind by military drones: a small but striking image of how nature is trying to survive amid the rubble of the battlefield

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July 15, 2026 at 8:45 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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