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More than 40 Magellanic penguins born in captivity arrived by court order from Mar del Plata at a river island in Argentina’s Río Negro province, and at first they had no…

Magellanic penguins: more than 40 born in captivity left Mar del Plata for Bubalcó, a refuge on a river island in Río Negro, ...
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In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selec…

Inexpensive blue pigment turns carbon dioxide into methane in one electrochemical step with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, a ...
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At 8.2 feet on Oct. 13, the Lake Constance water level in Konstanz, Germany, fell below a 1947 record for the date, and it now sits 10 inches under last winter’s low

Lake Constance water level averaged 250 cm (8.2 ft) at Konstanz on Oct. 13, below a 1947 record for the date and 85 cm under ...
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In Romania’s Brașov County, brown bears number about 1,329 by a national genetic estimate, the highest density of any county, and one bear relocated from Poiana Bra…

Brown bears in Romania's Brașov County number about 1,329, the highest density of any county, and one relocated bear came ...
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A simulated AMOC collapse in an unreviewed preprint cut wheat, corn and rice harvests in Germany and Ukraine by roughly 16 to 19 percent, and cereal prices cou…

AMOC collapse could cut wheat, corn and rice calories 5.3% worldwide and up to 19% in Germany and Ukraine, a new ALLFED ...
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Leap seconds will end on May 20, 2027, under a rule the General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted in Versailles, France, and a new study finds Earth’s s…

Leap seconds end on May 20, 2027, under a new CGPM rule, as a study finds polar ground rising nearly 1 mm a year and Earth ...
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A company won a mining license for a magnesium deposit it estimates at more than 50 million metric tons near Rășinari, in Romania’s Sibiu County, and the EU gets 97 …

The Commission’s Critical Raw Materials Act page says magnesium makes cars and aircraft lighter and that 97 percent of the EU ...
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On the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province, 36 Milu deer escaped a flooded nature reserve in May 1998, and by the end of 2009 the escapees and their descend…

Milu deer escaped a flooded Yangtze reserve in May 1998, and the 36 runaways and their offspring passed 500 by 2009 before ...
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On Lake Nasser behind Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons evaporate each year, more than the Seine carries through Paris, and a 1959 treaty b…

Lake Nasser loses an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons a year to evaporation, more than the Seine carries through Paris in an ...
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At a fire lab at Brazil’s Unisinos University, Tetra Pak carton strips carried flames nearly 6 inches in 14 seconds, and the 17.6°F they took off a test roof’s surface ...

Tetra Pak carton strips used as homemade roof insulation carried flames 5.9 inches in 14 seconds in Brazilian tests, and ...
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Over the Atlantic in 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 lost power to both engines and glided about 75 miles for roughly 19 minutes, and all 306 people aboard survived a …

Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic in 2001 and glided for about 19 minutes to the Azores, where all ...
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In Brazil’s Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, a restoration project rooted in one family’s old farm has planted 1 million native seedlings, and lowland tapirs missing from Rio ...

Lowland tapirs are back in Rio de Janeiro state: around 25 now live in and around the Guapiaçu reserve, which has planted 1 million native seedlings.