A Small Fish Nobody Notices Is Why Dolphins Are Back in the Hudson
A walker spotted dolphins surfacing in the Hudson off Brookfield Place. The reason traces to a small forage fish and years of fisheries policy that let New York Harbor heal.
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How Atlanta’s Library Dads Turned Story Hour Into a Brotherhood
In metro Atlanta, Khari Arnold turned solo library trips with his baby daughter into The Library Dads: a growing group of fathers who gather for free, high-energy story hours built around reading aloud.
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A Grieving 87-Year-Old and a Senior Shelter Cat Found the Companion Each One Needed
When an 87-year-old woman lost her husband of more than 65 years, her family helped her adopt a 12-year-old shelter cat that also needed someone.
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Decades of Predator Control Pulled Western Australia’s Numbat Back From the Brink of Extinction
In the late 1970s only about 300 numbats survived in the wild. After decades of predator control and careful breeding, there are now as many as 3,000.
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Chile’s Food Warning Labels Are Starting to Lower Childhood Obesity
Chile’s food warning labels helped make young kids less likely to be overweight within 18 months, a new Lancet study finds. Early proof the policy works.
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A Weekly Kickabout in Dublin Is Turning Strangers Into Friends
Casual football in Dublin started as a small kickabout and grew into weekly friendships, group chats, and an open welcome for anyone who turns up.
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Josh Kerr Makes Good on ‘Project 222’ With the First Sub-3:43 Mile in History
Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 at the London Diamond League to break a 27-year mile world record and become the first man under 3:43 for the distance.
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For the First Time, Solar Supplied a Quarter of the EU’s Electricity in June
In June, more of the EU’s electricity came from the sun than from any reactor, gas plant, wind farm, dam or coal station, and for the first time it added up to a full quarter.
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To Keep Drivers Alert, the World’s Longest Undersea Tunnel Will Shift Color
Norway’s Rogfast will be the world’s longest undersea road tunnel, and its engineers are answering half an hour of gray rock with a hall lit in shifting color.
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A Montana Teen Roped a Drowning Man to Safety on His First Throw
Jory Thomas spent the past year learning to rope cattle on a Montana ranch, then used that skill to pull a stranger from the Yellowstone River.
