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A retired zoology professor spent his final years protecting one small marsh on a Washington island — and two neighboring families turned it into a permanent 13-acre preserve.
New Mexico's investor-owned utilities weren't required to reach 50% renewable power until 2030 — they got there in 2024, and the state's largest utility has kept climbing since.
Divers are hand-planting hatchery-grown giant kelp off Tasmania's coast, using a technique that can regrow a lost underwater forest within a single year.
After four decades at a Brazilian zoo, Asian elephant Sandro walked off a transport truck and into a 13-acre sanctuary habitat built for him to roam.
Quantinuum's Helios computer hit a record 99.9995% logical fidelity, just five errors per million operations, moving fault-tolerant quantum computing closer to reality.
Connecticut's Raji Doshi beat nine finalists to become America's Top Young Scientist with a seashell-inspired system to fight ocean acidification.
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