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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-21T16:27:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[A 12-year-old Connecticut student combined algae with a natural mineral to explore a new way of reducing ocean acidification, and the experiment has now placed her among 10 finalists competing for a $25,000 prize in the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[Homeowners in the Florida Keys looked into their backyard swimming pool and found 64 baby sea turtles trapped in the chlorinated water after artificial lights led them away from the ocean, but every hatchling survived treatment and was later released into the Gulf Stream]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/ribbon-eel-mauritius-photographer/37010/</loc>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[An underwater photographer in Mauritius spotted a ribbon eel outside the sandy burrow where these reef predators usually hide, capturing the blue-and-yellow fish swimming like a “silk scarf” and revealing the flowing body that divers rarely get to see in the open]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/pennsylvania-oil-gas-wastewater-roads-radium/37009/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-21T10:33:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania once used salty oil-and-gas wastewater to control dust on rural roads, but researchers found brine averaging about 2,000 picocuries of radium per liter could perform no better than rainwater under dry conditions while sending radioactive contaminants into runoff]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/aral-sea-ships-desert-restoration/36992/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T23:30:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest lake, but after Soviet irrigation diverted its rivers, fishing boats were left stranded in a 23,000-square-mile desert while Kazakhstan revived part of the water and Uzbekistan planted 4.2 million acres of the exposed lakebed]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/screen-time-children-cognitive-performance/36991/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T22:00:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Researchers followed 260 Finnish children for eight years expecting more screen time to signal weaker thinking skills, but by age 15 those reporting greater use actually showed better overall cognitive performance, although the study could not prove screens caused the difference]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/abandoned-puppies-rescued-brazil/36990/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T20:00:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[A woman stopped beside a wooded road in Brazil after spotting two abandoned puppies, but as she approached more kept emerging until the rescue grew into an entire group that took three hours to save and had to squeeze into a refuge already caring for 164 animals]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/australian-magpies-remove-gps-trackers/36989/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T18:30:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Researchers fitted five Australian magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but within an hour the birds began helping one another remove the harnesses, turning a failed tracking experiment into an unexpected observation of cooperation and problem-solving]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/nuclear-reactor-vessel-trojan-oregon/36988/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T17:00:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[In 1999, workers filled a 42-foot nuclear reactor vessel with 200 tons of concrete and moved the 1,020-ton package 300 miles by barge and a 320-wheel trailer, but 791 spent fuel assemblies from the same Oregon plant are still waiting in storage today]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/dutch-men-height-natural-selection/36993/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T15:48:31+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt]]></news:title>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T10:33:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Dutch men grew about 20 centimeters in 150 years, going from among Europe’s shortest to its tallest, and a simulation shows natural selection explains less than half a centimeter of that change]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/keratin-scaffolding-stretched-tissue-cell-nuclei/36875/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-20T09:38:50+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Scientists stretched living tissue for hours and watched its internal keratin scaffolding rebuild itself into thick networks spanning multiple cells, but the strangest part came when the same process gradually pushed the nuclei out of the protective cages surrounding them]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/dollar-tree-blind-dog-stevie-adopted/36902/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-19T22:24:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[A dog with a pink collar wandered alone into a Dollar Tree, and employees soon noticed something wasn’t right when he started bumping into the shelves]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/sweden-imports-trash-heat-electricity/36901/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-19T21:01:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Sweden imported 3.86 million metric tons of other countries’ waste in 2024 and gets paid to burn it for heat and electricity, but the system still releases fossil CO2 and is not the same as recycling]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/darpa-manta-ray-drone-hibernates-seafloor/36900/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-19T18:55:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray underwater drone for DARPA fits into five shipping containers, glides by pumping seawater, and can anchor to the ocean floor to “hibernate” and save energy]]></news:title>
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		<loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/dna-damage-alzheimers-mice-spinal-drug/36899/</loc>
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			<news:publication_date>2026-09-19T16:38:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
			<news:title><![CDATA[A drug first developed for spinal cord injuries reduced DNA damage and brain inflammation in mice with Alzheimer’s, and because it already passed a safety trial in 109 people, researchers believe it could reach patients faster]]></news:title>
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