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Hawaii’s feral pigs damage ecosystems across the islands, and a Big Island sanctuary now recruits live-in interns to rescue and care for them in exchange for housing
A Belgian park has now bred all three blue macaw species, and the two chicks that completed the record needed twelve hand feedings a day to survive their first week
Saltwater crocodiles vanished from Philippine coasts decades ago, and a 10-foot female’s rescue this August revealed more about captive wildlife than a comeback
Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more
A fish elevator on a Maine dam could reopen 600 miles of river to a small fish, and the whales people keep mentioning are not part of the story yet
A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters
A graduate student in Maine turned wood into a foam that keeps a cooler almost as cold as plastic does, and the part that still fails is not the temperature
Mushroom gatherers walked into a Nepalese forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one, and officials have now restricted access to the site
Ethiopia put 805 million seedlings in the ground in twelve hours with 26 million people helping, and the number that will actually decide whether it worked is still years away
Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out
NASA satellite images show France, Spain and Italy turning brown within weeks, and the measurement behind the color change is one Europe has never recorded in a summer before
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer turned down more than $15 million from data center developers and took $1.9 million instead, for a reason that had almost nothing to do with money
A 13-year-old in Oregon built a chamber that pulls drinking water out of the air for dry farms, and the amount it produced in two hours explains the real problem
Romania sank four rock-filled barges into the Danube to keep a nuclear reactor running, and the river rose an inch and a half when forecasters had expected a drop
Four snow leopards wearing GPS collars in Nepal sent back 4,707 signals, and three of them crossed into China and India so often that the conservation map no longer fits
Syngenta is leaving Australia’s paraquat market after an 80 percent spraying cut, but the weed killer linked in studies to Parkinson’s concerns will remain
Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878 and released four more in 1904, and today about 110,000 descendants are reshaping the island’s forests








