Global Hunger Fell Below 8 Percent for the First Time Since the Pandemic
A UN report finds global hunger fell for a third straight year in 2025, dropping below 8 percent for the first time since the pandemic.
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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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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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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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El Salvador Becomes the First Central American Country to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma
Health teams went looking for the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness in El Salvador’s most at-risk towns and found none, earning the country a WHO first for Central America.
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How a 16-State Team Helped the American Oystercatcher Rebound
Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, a coalition of 35 groups in 16 states has helped a football-size shorebird grow its numbers by 45% since 2008, one banded chick at a time.
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You Can Now Watch a Whale Feed With the Manhattan Skyline Behind It
Whale-watching boats now run regular trips out of Queens. Here’s how New York Harbor’s cleanup, and a law protecting one small baitfish, brought humpback whales back within sight of the skyline.
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A Decade and Two Elections After Banning Billboards, This French City Still Doesn’t Want Them Back.
A decade ago, Grenoble tore down hundreds of billboards and planted trees instead. Two mayors and two elections later, nobody has tried to bring them back.
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The Return of the Giants: Whales Are Filling the Southern Ocean Again
Scientists who have spent their careers around whales are hard to astonish. Then the research vessel Allankay came into the waters off the South Orkney…
