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Underwater sensors capture porpoises’ rare distress calls off Cornwall

Sea otters returned to a California estuary; eelgrass expanded 600%, marsh-edge erosion slowed 69%

Mexico restored 1 million hectares; plant survival nearly doubled to 64%

Klamath River salmon reclaim 88% of historic range after dams are removed

Antarctica gained 695 billion tons in 2021-23 as tropical warmth drove heavy snowfall

AI predicts fusion plasma instability 200 ms early, stops it in time

Wolves moved to an island to rebuild its ecosystem; researchers found out whether it worked

Scientists tagged 14,000 endangered moths with paint and glue; none turned up, and that may be good news

In 1952, Mary Tsingou programmed a Los Alamos experiment that helped change modern physics

Nevada's solar panels helped a rare desert plant produce 10 times more fruit

Meet Patrick Urban: The German dung beetle specialist who found a new species

Scientists recreated ancient Chinese bronze casting with 3D printing in under 40 hours

In 1967, Nasa flew flour beetle pupae into space; wing abnormalities rose from 29.9% to 44.8%

Scientists found a new fungus in giant panda poop; DNA confirmed it as a new species

147 years after Hall Effect discovery, scientists find it works in-plane

Nasa tests turning astronaut poop into sterile, odour-free recyclable material

Rat-free Lundy sees puffin numbers soar as more than 40,000 seabirds return

Gold miners breached 14 hectares of Indonesia's orangutan refuge in three years; conservationists want government to intervene

Oklahoma veteran restores 400-acre ranch as native grasses and streams return