THIS AMAZING WORLD
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Breakthrough research. New wonders every week.
How Argentina's PCCA and Chile's Manku Project reared and released dozens of Andean condors — returning the world's largest raptor to Patagonia coast to coast for the first time in about 170 years.
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From a low of a few hundred whales to an estimated 84,000, the humpback is conservation's greatest success story — but the same 1986 moratorium failed most other great whales. Here's why.
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One classroom in Assam charges tuition in trash. Indonesia's mosques turned the same idea into a fund that pays for poor students' schooling — here's how it really works, and whether it does.
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How coral IVF on the Great Barrier Reef turns the reef's once-a-year spawn into baby corals — the 100x fertilisation boost, the 56x seedbox breakthrough, and the honest limits.
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Mining in Antarctica is banned indefinitely by the 1991 Madrid Protocol - not the 1959 Treaty, and with no 2048 expiry. Here's the myth-busting real story, including the 1988 near-miss and the 2024 Russian oil revelation.
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The Iron Age chieftain of Pazyryk Barrow 2 carried animal-style tattoos that survived 2,500 years in the ice — and a 2025 study finally revealed the tattooist's hand.
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The Mauritius kestrel fell to just four wild birds in 1974. Here is how a stubborn young biologist and a toolkit of field tricks pulled it back — and why it is slipping again.
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A conversation in Zurich in 2011 led to a $2,000 drone that exposes illegal logging over Sumatra's rainforest — and a 2024 AI system that hears the chainsaw before the tree falls.
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The full story of how Macquarie Island was cleared of rabbits, rats and cats — the sealers who started it, the cat removal that backfired, and the virus, bait and dogs that finally won.
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The panda-costume clips look like a gag. They're a twenty-year survival experiment built from Xiang Xiang's death and aimed, oddly, at the mother panda's nose.
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The comet stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry is the oldest artwork of Halley's Comet — and, new 2025 research argues, a piece of Norman propaganda. Here's the omen, the timeline trick, the phantom ships, and the monk who recognised the star.
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A ~20-year-old caretaker died in Herculaneum in 79 CE and part of his brain became black glass — the only known case. Here's the physics, the ash-cloud paradox, and the argument scientists are having about it right now.
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