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Mississippi River islands near Iowa are disappearing; $40M project to restore 630 acres of habitat (Image Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District) Islands and backwaters along the Mississippi River near Guttenberg, Iowa, have been gradually disappearing as erosion, flooding, wind and waves wear away their shorelines. Now, a major habitat restoration effort…

PC:  Czech-UNDP Partnership for the Sustainable Development Goals In Kashitu, Zambia, a project implemented by Přátelé New Renato and New Renato Community Society, with support from the Czech-UNDP Partnership for the SDGs, is piloting a sanitation system that turns human waste into fertiliser as farmers face rising fertiliser costs and declining agricultural productivity. The project…

Image Credit: Sahara Conservation Niger has released eight North African ostriches into the wild, bringing the species back to an area where it had disappeared decades ago. On 2 September 2026, 5 females and 3 males were released into the Gadabedji Biosphere Reserve, marking the first reintroduction of the species there. The move follows years…

In northern China, newly planted trees can face a difficult start, with dry conditions and strong winds making it hard for young roots to get enough moisture. For 14-year-old Jia Mingxuan, the problem was close to home in Aohan Banner, where decades of work have transformed once sandy land into a greener landscape. A simple…

The seeds that NASA sent to space in 1984, returned to Earth six years later in 1990 and had to be distributed among students as plant kits. What lies behind this statement is a tale of space motion that many remain unaware of. The mission was to determine whether exposure to the space environment would…

Donut was taken to the RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Center for emergency veterinary treatment. She is still in critical condition and the priority now is to treat her serious wound and stabilize her health. A young gray seal caught in a snare of discarded fishing gear that had tightened around her neck has a long…

Male African Bush Elephant. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Tanzania has officially protected a narrow wildlife corridor linking Nyerere National Park’s savanna woodlands with the rainforests of the Udzungwa Mountains. The Nyerere-Udzungwa Wildlife Corridor crosses the Kilombero Valley, where farm fields had divided the elephants’ old natural path, making it harder for them to move between…

Women have been kept in the dark about more than just their abilities and history, they still don’t know one of the most important things about themselves: their body. For more than a hundred years, an organ in the female reproductive system was written off as useless. However, a recent study has revealed that what…

The collection also includes 14 mosaics taken from a Roman villa in Syria. Among the other notable pieces is a third-century BCE mosaic section portraying the mythological wedding of Telete and Eros, created from hundreds of tiny pieces of colored stone known as tesserae. Ancient pieces of Syrian history that had traveled far from their…

A decade of forest regeneration in Indonesia’s Harapan Rainforest was linked to rising bird abundance, with 43.8% of bird species showing significant increases, according to a study published in Biological Conservation. Researchers surveyed birds between 2009–2011 and again in 2018, recording 187 species across the two periods. However, the study found evidence that trapping pressure…