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Sharing stories of human progress, environmental restoration, clean energy, and scientific discovery.
Sharing stories of human progress, environmental restoration, clean energy, and scientific discovery.
The fen orchid. It sounds like a flower of the fairy realm, and was nearly lost to this world due to decimation of its habitat. Reduced to 3 sites across the UK in 2010, it is now flourishing, having left the threatened list thanks to the work of dedicated conservationists.
tinyurl.com/28b4os84
tinyurl.com/28b4os84
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The fen orchid. It sounds like a flower of the fairy realm, and was nearly lost to this world due to decimation of its habitat. Reduced to 3 sites across the UK in 2010, it is now flourishing, having left the threatened list thanks to the work of dedicated conservationists.
tinyurl.com/28b4os84
tinyurl.com/28b4os84
Restore a river. Heal a human. One doctor's push for sewage plants across the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region in southeastern Brazil has sparked a transformation of urban waterways that is reducing disease and reviving biodiversity.
tinyurl.com/23k8u5wl
tinyurl.com/23k8u5wl
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Restore a river. Heal a human. One doctor's push for sewage plants across the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region in southeastern Brazil has sparked a transformation of urban waterways that is reducing disease and reviving biodiversity.
tinyurl.com/23k8u5wl
tinyurl.com/23k8u5wl
Mosquitos. That evil whine. The anxious anticipation of the sting and the itch. And they literally suck our blood! Surely there must be a way to deal with this menace? How about an engineered fungus that lures and kills them with its irresistible scent?
tinyurl.com/27u6htdh
tinyurl.com/27u6htdh
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Mosquitos. That evil whine. The anxious anticipation of the sting and the itch. And they literally suck our blood! Surely there must be a way to deal with this menace? How about an engineered fungus that lures and kills them with its irresistible scent?
tinyurl.com/27u6htdh
tinyurl.com/27u6htdh
Batteries are getting better the boring way. Forget sci-fi chemistry breakthroughs, it's steady tweaks that provide the real action in EV batteries: cheaper LFP cells, higher-nickel packs with more range, dry-electrode lines that cut costs, a bit of silicon for faster charging
tinyurl.com/22j6d9fn
tinyurl.com/22j6d9fn
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Batteries are getting better the boring way. Forget sci-fi chemistry breakthroughs, it's steady tweaks that provide the real action in EV batteries: cheaper LFP cells, higher-nickel packs with more range, dry-electrode lines that cut costs, a bit of silicon for faster charging
tinyurl.com/22j6d9fn
tinyurl.com/22j6d9fn
When did workers start standing up for their rights? "Sounds a bit Marxist, maybe 1880s?" "What about Wat Tyler in 1380s England, surely peasants are workers too!" Keep going. The 3,150-year-old Turin Strike papyrus offers a detailed account of striking royal tomb artisans.
tinyurl.com/29822yb2
tinyurl.com/29822yb2
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
When did workers start standing up for their rights? "Sounds a bit Marxist, maybe 1880s?" "What about Wat Tyler in 1380s England, surely peasants are workers too!" Keep going. The 3,150-year-old Turin Strike papyrus offers a detailed account of striking royal tomb artisans.
tinyurl.com/29822yb2
tinyurl.com/29822yb2
"Oh darling, I love you so! I yearn for your [non-aggressive, mouth-to-mouth contact with lip or mouthpart movement and no food exchange]" Yes, there are scientists that study kissing. One team has even reconstructed an evolutionary “family tree” of the behaviour.
tinyurl.com/22nlztbf
tinyurl.com/22nlztbf
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Oh darling, I love you so! I yearn for your [non-aggressive, mouth-to-mouth contact with lip or mouthpart movement and no food exchange]" Yes, there are scientists that study kissing. One team has even reconstructed an evolutionary “family tree” of the behaviour.
tinyurl.com/22nlztbf
tinyurl.com/22nlztbf
Nine Nations. One billion trees. One single day. News of this epic tree-planting plan, slated for World Environment Day 2026, has just emanated from the colourful turmoil of COP30. We'll celebrate the details with you as they're announced.
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Nine Nations. One billion trees. One single day. News of this epic tree-planting plan, slated for World Environment Day 2026, has just emanated from the colourful turmoil of COP30. We'll celebrate the details with you as they're announced.
Colonoscopy. A fun word. Not a fun experience. Fortunately, your bum may soon be untroubled by scoping for gut problems, thanks to a probiotic capsule that activates when it detects inflammation or bleeding, and then passes out of the body carrying the diagnostic signal.
tinyurl.com/2ahkfucr
tinyurl.com/2ahkfucr
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Colonoscopy. A fun word. Not a fun experience. Fortunately, your bum may soon be untroubled by scoping for gut problems, thanks to a probiotic capsule that activates when it detects inflammation or bleeding, and then passes out of the body carrying the diagnostic signal.
tinyurl.com/2ahkfucr
tinyurl.com/2ahkfucr
Fatbergs. The quiet scourge of the municipal underworld. They slowly build up their fatty, fetid presence until they block the sewers they inhabit. All it takes is one plastic wet wipe to get them started. The UK, boldly but sensibly, has now banned these wily fatberg-starters.
tinyurl.com/2b3srnmh
tinyurl.com/2b3srnmh
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Fatbergs. The quiet scourge of the municipal underworld. They slowly build up their fatty, fetid presence until they block the sewers they inhabit. All it takes is one plastic wet wipe to get them started. The UK, boldly but sensibly, has now banned these wily fatberg-starters.
tinyurl.com/2b3srnmh
tinyurl.com/2b3srnmh
"Speed of the Puma, Strength of the Bear" That phrase sang out of TV screens in the 80s, evoking animated superhero action. In real life, puma and bear have neither speed nor strength without habitat and water, two things secured by a new Guaraní Protected Area in Bolivia.
tinyurl.com/2xvurm6f
tinyurl.com/2xvurm6f
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Speed of the Puma, Strength of the Bear" That phrase sang out of TV screens in the 80s, evoking animated superhero action. In real life, puma and bear have neither speed nor strength without habitat and water, two things secured by a new Guaraní Protected Area in Bolivia.
tinyurl.com/2xvurm6f
tinyurl.com/2xvurm6f
A vulnerable predator? Sounds like a contradiction in terms. But for 5 threatened Atlantic shark a loophole in Mexican fishing laws has quietly driven decades of decline. Not any more. Mexico has now closed that regulatory vacuum, giving these vicious victims chance to recover.
tinyurl.com/28zsa2r6
tinyurl.com/28zsa2r6
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A vulnerable predator? Sounds like a contradiction in terms. But for 5 threatened Atlantic shark a loophole in Mexican fishing laws has quietly driven decades of decline. Not any more. Mexico has now closed that regulatory vacuum, giving these vicious victims chance to recover.
tinyurl.com/28zsa2r6
tinyurl.com/28zsa2r6
COP30 is copping the heat of major protests, but host Brazil is making positive moves on the inside, including the recognition of 10 new Indigenous territories, a breakthrough pushed by rallying thousands and 900 Indigenous delegates - the most Indigenous attendees at any COP.
tinyurl.com/22u9pr7j
tinyurl.com/22u9pr7j
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
COP30 is copping the heat of major protests, but host Brazil is making positive moves on the inside, including the recognition of 10 new Indigenous territories, a breakthrough pushed by rallying thousands and 900 Indigenous delegates - the most Indigenous attendees at any COP.
tinyurl.com/22u9pr7j
tinyurl.com/22u9pr7j
"A qubit, a qubit, my kingdom for a stable qubit" The holy grail of quantum computing, with its promise of operations of unprecedented complexity, requires its qubits to hold still. Princeton engineers have built one that keeps its state for over one millisecond. Progress!
tinyurl.com/22bgkhu3
tinyurl.com/22bgkhu3
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"A qubit, a qubit, my kingdom for a stable qubit" The holy grail of quantum computing, with its promise of operations of unprecedented complexity, requires its qubits to hold still. Princeton engineers have built one that keeps its state for over one millisecond. Progress!
tinyurl.com/22bgkhu3
tinyurl.com/22bgkhu3
11,700 years old is considered juvenile in the world of meteorite impact craters. The discovery of this healthy young-un in Southern China has just rewritten recent history: its the largest young crater ever identified.
tinyurl.com/24evbn5v
tinyurl.com/24evbn5v
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11,700 years old is considered juvenile in the world of meteorite impact craters. The discovery of this healthy young-un in Southern China has just rewritten recent history: its the largest young crater ever identified.
tinyurl.com/24evbn5v
tinyurl.com/24evbn5v
"I'd like to be under the sea...".Well it's only yellow-ish, and its not a submarine as such, but when it launches in 2027, Vanguard will be the first new subsea habitat in 40 years, allowing its scientist residents to live and work on the seabed for a week at a time.
tinyurl.com/29foo2z7
tinyurl.com/29foo2z7
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"I'd like to be under the sea...".Well it's only yellow-ish, and its not a submarine as such, but when it launches in 2027, Vanguard will be the first new subsea habitat in 40 years, allowing its scientist residents to live and work on the seabed for a week at a time.
tinyurl.com/29foo2z7
tinyurl.com/29foo2z7
Countless cameras gaze down on the Earth as they speed around their orbits, indifferent to the power their images might hold. In Malaysian Borneo, such images have revealed violations of sustainability rules, halting palm oil clearing in a victory for Indigenous activists.
tinyurl.com/22m98z62
tinyurl.com/22m98z62
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Countless cameras gaze down on the Earth as they speed around their orbits, indifferent to the power their images might hold. In Malaysian Borneo, such images have revealed violations of sustainability rules, halting palm oil clearing in a victory for Indigenous activists.
tinyurl.com/22m98z62
tinyurl.com/22m98z62
If you had to pick the site of the highest density of crocodiles in North America, you probably wouldn't put your finger on the cooling canals of a nuclear power plant. However, Florida's Turkey Point Nuclear Plant is the current rebound hotspot of the endangered species.
tinyurl.com/2aqvv3yt
tinyurl.com/2aqvv3yt
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you had to pick the site of the highest density of crocodiles in North America, you probably wouldn't put your finger on the cooling canals of a nuclear power plant. However, Florida's Turkey Point Nuclear Plant is the current rebound hotspot of the endangered species.
tinyurl.com/2aqvv3yt
tinyurl.com/2aqvv3yt
Turn on the tap and out it comes. If only clean water flowed so easily for every human. Well, the World Bank is reporting a quiet but significant global shift in the right direction: countries are rebuilding their water systems to ensure greater access and climate resilience.
tinyurl.com/2cd4bbgx
tinyurl.com/2cd4bbgx
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Turn on the tap and out it comes. If only clean water flowed so easily for every human. Well, the World Bank is reporting a quiet but significant global shift in the right direction: countries are rebuilding their water systems to ensure greater access and climate resilience.
tinyurl.com/2cd4bbgx
tinyurl.com/2cd4bbgx
This is a picture of a puffin on the Isle of Muck. Ridiculous? Well puffins are quite unreal looking creatures, and Isle of Muck, surely that's a made up name? Nope - the really unusual thing is that puffins are nesting here for the first time in at least 25 years.
tinyurl.com/29ssnvgg
tinyurl.com/29ssnvgg
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is a picture of a puffin on the Isle of Muck. Ridiculous? Well puffins are quite unreal looking creatures, and Isle of Muck, surely that's a made up name? Nope - the really unusual thing is that puffins are nesting here for the first time in at least 25 years.
tinyurl.com/29ssnvgg
tinyurl.com/29ssnvgg
"Europe's suicide capital". A tough infamy to burdened with, like a social black hole that draws in the desperate like moths to its dark flame. And yet, Lithuania has shaken it, halving its precipitous suicide death rate in two decades - one of the world's steepest declines.
tinyurl.com/27mrks2d
tinyurl.com/27mrks2d
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"Europe's suicide capital". A tough infamy to burdened with, like a social black hole that draws in the desperate like moths to its dark flame. And yet, Lithuania has shaken it, halving its precipitous suicide death rate in two decades - one of the world's steepest declines.
tinyurl.com/27mrks2d
tinyurl.com/27mrks2d
We thought we were making a documentary. We didn't realise it was also making us.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
We thought we were making a documentary. We didn't realise it was also making us.
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Legal and digital identity. Dystopian stories of overreach might provoke a shiver on hearing that phrase, and yet official documentation is key for participation in modern economies. Good news then that millions more people gain official proof of identity year on year.
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Legal and digital identity. Dystopian stories of overreach might provoke a shiver on hearing that phrase, and yet official documentation is key for participation in modern economies. Good news then that millions more people gain official proof of identity year on year.
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
Can we meet the world's growing thirst for electricity without digging up more of the dirty stuff? Demand is up 603 TWh in the first 9 months of 2025 alone. Actually, yes. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in that period, so fossil generation's got nowhere to grow.
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Can we meet the world's growing thirst for electricity without digging up more of the dirty stuff? Demand is up 603 TWh in the first 9 months of 2025 alone. Actually, yes. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in that period, so fossil generation's got nowhere to grow.
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
Which country is the 7th largest user of coal in the world? Well let's just say they've done some Seoul-searching, and have now joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance at COP30, with a pledge to stop new coal power and retire two thirds of existing plants by 2040.
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Which country is the 7th largest user of coal in the world? Well let's just say they've done some Seoul-searching, and have now joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance at COP30, with a pledge to stop new coal power and retire two thirds of existing plants by 2040.
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all.
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all.
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk