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• The story seems absurd: a British lawyer set out to clean up a polluted river, collected more than 200 bags of trash, and now could face legal action for removing waste without permission
• 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
• 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
• Scientists have just discovered a new mammal in Argentina, and the most interesting thing is that it wasn’t lost in a remote jungle, but less than 81 miles from Córdoba
• Costa Rica has just added a “ghost shark” to its biodiversity, but this one doesn’t live on beaches or reefs: it was hiding at depths of between 1,280 and 2,580 feet in the Pacific Ocean
• 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
• Chile has just imposed a fine of about $4.1 million on a real estate development consisting of 87 lots along the banks of the Maullín River, and the case is already being viewed as a stern warning to rural real estate developers